PLATE XCJX. 



GLAD 



LU 



AND 



Large White-flowered Gladiolus. 



us. 



\ 



CLASS 



III. 



ORDER 



I. 



TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Three Chives. One Pointal. 



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ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla, fexpartita, ringens. 

 Stamina adfcendentia. 





Blossom, fix dlvifions, gaping. 

 Chives afcending. 



See Plate XL Vol. I. Glad, roseus 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gladiolus foliis lineari-lanceolatis, nervofis, gla- 



brisj floribus fplcatis, fecundis, albidls^ 

 maxioiisj laciniis trlbus inferioribus ma- 

 cxilatis} ftigmatibiis fub-bilobis. 



.Gladiolus with linearly lance-ihaped, Urongly 



nerved, finooth leaves j floweis grow in 

 fpikes all from one fide of the ftem, white, 

 and very large ; the three lower fegments 

 of the limb are fpottedj fumnaits nearly 

 two-lobed. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE* 



1. The Sheaths of the Erapalement 



ttached 



Seed-bud. Shaft, and Sumnnts 



than 



plant is prefened with little care, and it rarely raiffes flowering; at the fame time that the bloffoms are 



of long duration, and not fubjeft to injury from the weather; changing to a fine blulh colour, when 

 approaching to decay. ^ — ,• t^ -^ , . ..__.. ^ ^ . ._-j„ 



fr 



peat feems 



Catalogue 

 pe of Good Hope, by Mr. F. Maffon 



figu 



rts of ear th, but fandy 

 taken from a plant io 



coUeaion of G. Hibbert, Efq. Claphara, this year, the end of May 



