: PLATE CLXXXVIIL. 
GLADIOLUS CAMPANULATUS 
Bell-flowered Gladiolus. 
CLASS: Hl ORDER I 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYN I.4. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Biossom fix divifions, gaping. 
Cuives afcending. 
See Pl. XI. Vol. I. Guapiorus ROSEUS, 
Coro.ta fexpartita, ringens, 
Stamina adfcendentia. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Gladiolus foliis lanceolatis, nervofis, glabris; Gladiolus with lance-fhaped leaves, nerved and 
- feapo fubtrifloro, foliis longior ; corolla fub- {mooth; flower-ftem moftly three-flowered, 
cainpanulata, palidé purpurea, laciniis fub- longer than the leaves; bloffom rather bell- 
equalibus; ftigmatibus bifidis, thaped, of a pale purple, the fegments near- 
ly equal, with the fummits two-cleft. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Sheaths of the Empalement. 
2. A Flower fpread open, with the Chives attached, 
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits, one Summit detached and magnified. 
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Tue Bell-flowered Gladiolus, was amongft the number of thofe imported from Holland, in the year 
1794, by Mefirs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith ; when they partook of that large collection, brought 
to Haarlem by a Frenchman 3 who had been long refident at the Cape of Good Hope, where he had 
cultivated moft of the bulbs prior to his bringing them to Europe. Nothing particular is required for 
the management of this, more than the moft common of the Genus, from theCape. It flowers in May, 
