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"GLADIOLUS RINGENS. ar. cinereo odorato, — 
| _ Gaping Afh-coloured fweet Gladiolus. | - 
CEASS Hi ORDER. I. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
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ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
 Corors 6-partita, ringens. 
; Biossom fix divifions, gaping. 
Stamina adfcendentia. Curves afcending. 
oe ms See Plate XI. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Gladiolus foliis linearibus, coftatis; floribus || Gladiolus with linear, ribbed leaves; the blof- 
' ringentibus, cineriis, odoratiffimis. foms gaping, afh-coloured, and very {weet- 
fcented. # 
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ie REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The two fheaths of the Empalement. 
2. A Bloffom cut open to expofe the infertion of the Chives. 
3. The Pointal (one Summit magnified). 
A, A Seed in its coat. 
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_ Tuts moft defirable Gladiolus, is not a perfeé&t novelty in the greenhoufe; although extremely fearce, 
_ it has been introduced to us conftantly from the Cape of Good Hope, but from its great delicacy has 
been repeatedly loft. The plants now in England, have been imported from Holland, from the col- 
leGtion of -Meffis. Voorhelm and Co. who about the year 1793, purchafed the largeft colle&tion bain, 
formed at the Cape, from a Frenchman who had been many years refident there. The Gladiolus > 
_ ingens about mid-day has the flavour of violets fo powerfully, that a fingle plant is fufficient to ioe = 
a whole greenhoufe. It is with difficulty preferved from rotting at the root; therefore fhould be 
grown in very fandy peat, and fhould be expofed to dry as foon as the flower is gone. Is propagated ae 
she root, or by feed, which may be procured by great care not to over-water the bulb after flower. 
ing; but herein there is great danger, ee 
