TRA? CCAL 
I XIA c O L U M N A R I S, Var. versicolor. 
Columnar-leave d Ix ld. Changealle- coloured var, 
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CLASS Ill ORDER I. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Corottra 6-petala, patens, equalis. Stigmata 
tria, ere€tiufculo-patula. 
Bossom 6-petals, {preading, equal. Summits 
three, upright-fpreading. . 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Ixia filamentis bafi coherentibus ; floribus fub- | Ixia with threads united at the bafe; flowers 
capitatis; corollis verficoloribus. gtow nearly in heads; bloffoms change- 
. able-coloured. Z 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Empalement. : 
- A Bloffom fpread open. ons 
3. The Seed-bud, with the Chives, as they ftand upon the mouth of 
the bloffom; the petals being cut off, and the fummits as they 
appear through the tips, the whole magnified. oe 
A. The Threads cut open, magnified. 
5. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits, magnified. 
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_ Tuts moft beautiful variety, of the Columnar-chived Ixia, was introduced to us, from Holland, in 
_ the year 1799. It flowers about the beginning of June, and continues in bloffom about three weeks. 
‘The beautiful manner in which the colours of the flowers, of this variety, are blended, and which 
appear to change, as regarded from different. points of view, is beyond the painter's fkill; the beft 
that can be done is but a faint imitation. ‘The roots of this plant are rather more delicate than the 
