CLASS Il. ORDER L 
NDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
_ ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
ringens, Biossom fix divifions, gaping. 
tia. Curves afcending. 
See Plate XI, GLADIOLUS ROSEUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
foliis enfiformibus, apicibus tortis, Gladiolus with fword-fhaped leaves, twifted at = 
— corollis fu nula- the ends, linear, and crofs-fhaped ; bloffoms 
petalis acuminatis. nearly bell-fhaped, and red; petals tharp- 
pointed. 
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| REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. ie two Shesthe of the Empalesient. ae 
2. A Bloffom cut open, to expofe the fituation of the Chives. z 
3. The Pointal, one of ~. Summits magnified. 
= * A Seed. 
oe SEINE: commen 
[BF ht ticoe Geom this is the firft to expand its bloffoms, feldom floweting 
is ¢ ely hardy, fearce requirin ing the warmth of a greenhoufe for its protedions 
Cape. About the year 1791, the bulbs of this plant were Te of 
Voorhelm, and Co. of Haarlem, in Holland, by Meffts. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfimith, # 
‘it has repeatedly flowered, and where this figure was taken. It pearance” 
— ane Roe a site cont, a light fandy peat. 
