PLATE CXVIII. 



GLADIOLUS GRANDIFLORUS 



harge flowered Gladiolus 



CLASS 



III. 



ORDER 



I 



TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



CoHOLLA fexpartita, ringens 

 Stamina adfcendentia. 



Blossom, fix divlfions, gaping. 



Chives afcending. 



See Gladiolus roseus^ PI. XL Vol. I 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Glad 



olus folits enfiformlbus nervofis; fcapo 

 fubtxifloro, longitudine follorum; florlbus 

 ereflis, maxlmisj laciniis corollae emargx- 

 natis, undulatis, flriatls, fub-aequalibus. 



Gladiolus with sword -fhape leaves, nen'cd; 

 flower-ftem having moftly three flowers, 

 and of the length of the leaves; flowers 

 grow upright, and very large j the kg- 

 raents of bloflbm are notched at the ends, 

 waved, flriped, and nearly of an equal 

 length. 



REFERENCE- TO THE PLATE. 



1. The two iheaths of the Empalement. 



2. The Bloflbm cut open, with the Chives attached 



3. The Pointal, and Seed-bud. 



fisTures 



iTKUM iiic ngures m the Colleft. and Ic. rar. of Jacquin, we were led to think, this mult oe luc .--- 

 or a ftrong variety of his G. florabundus; but, as his trivial name and fpecific charader fo ill accord 

 with onr plant, we have continued it under that, by which it was fent to England in 1/88. 



about 



free blowing bulb, and will live through the winter, with very little protedion 



drawing was taken In June this year, at the Hammerfraith Nurfery. 



