PLATE 



CXI. 



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Streaked-fto w ered Gladio lus , 



CLASS 



III. 



ORDER 



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TRUjSDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



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ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla fexpartita, ringens. Stamina adfcen- 

 dentia. 



Blossom £x divifions, gaping. Chives afcend- 



ing. 



See Gladiolus rosetjs, Plate XL Vol, I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gladiolus foliis lanceolato enfiformibus, fcapo 

 aequantibus^ fcapo fubtriiioro, eredo] flori- 

 bus ere£tls j corolla ringente, laciniis acutis, 

 nndulatis, medio ftrlatis. 



Gladiolus with leaves bet\veen lance and fword- 

 fhaped, the length of the flower-ftem^ ge- 

 nerally three flowers on the ftem; flowers 

 grow upright 5 bloffom gaping, the fegments 

 pointed, wa\'ed, and ftreaked in the middle. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement. 



2. A Flower cut open with the Chives attached. 



3. The Seed-bud and Pointal, natural fize, one Summit detached^ magnified 



This fpccles of Cape Gladiolus was brought to us, from Holland, about the year 1788; it is a very 

 hardy bulb, the flowers continuing perfeiSt more than a week^ and are not eafily injured either 

 by wind or rain. But the greatefl: merit of this plaijt is, that the blolToms are only produced when 

 moft of the other fpecles of Ixlae, Gladioli, &c. have done flowering; which isgenerally about the end 



of July. 



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The increafe of 



this plant is not great, as feldom more than two roots are produced from the old one. Our drawing 

 was made at the Hammerfmith nurfery, in 1799, Willdenow has a Gladiolus from Jacquins Icon. 



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that by which this fpecies is in general known, and by which it came from Holland, we have not 



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