ee "PLATE LX. " a. 
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GLADIOLUS GRAMINEUS. : 
Gra/s-like’ Gladiolus. 
CEASS.- UL. ORDER. I 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
' ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
= Sicetca fexpartita, ringens. || Brossom with fix divifions, gaping. 
Sramina adfcendentia. . Cuives afcending. 
See GLADIOLUS LoNGIFLORUs. Plate V. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
s polyftachyus, {capo laxo, fpicis capil- Gladiolus with many fpikes, upon a flexible 
laribus, flexuofis; foliis enfiformibus; co- flower ftem, {pikes hair-like, growing zig- 
rallee fexpartite, abfque tubo. zag; leaves f{word-fhape; bloffom of fix di- 
vifions, without a tube. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The two fheaths of the Empalemen 
2. The Seed-bud, Chives, and Poiatal- (sangniied). 
3. The Pointal, (magnified 
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Tuts fpecies of Gladiolus has been defcribed by Thunberg, and from him by Linnzus, in his Suppl. 
_ Plant. p. 95, under the fpecific name it here bears. It is a little ftraining on the genus to introduce 
this fpecies into it; as it is deficient in moft of the effential chara@ters; having a bloffom without a 
_ tube, and the petals equal. From the Kew Catalogue we learn it was introduced in the year 1787, 
by Mr. F. Maffon, to the royal gardens; is there faid to flower moft part of the year: a plant of fuch 
charaéter is moft defirable, but unfortunately we have never feen it in bloffom but at the ufual feafon 
for the flowers of this tribe; that is, from April till June. The capfules of this plant bear a ftrong 
to thofe of the Euonymus: generally perfecting their feeds. It is a very hardy bulb, blows 
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