PLATE CCXXVII. 
GLADIOLUS RINGENS. Var. multiflorus. 
GcLpVn^ Gladiolus, Many-flowered Far, 
CLASS III. ORDER 1. 
TRIANDRU MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Corolla fex-partita, ringens. | Blossom fix-divided, gaping. 
Stamina adfctndentia. [ Chives afcending. 
See Gladiolus boseus, Plate XI. Vol. I. 
Gladiolus foliis fub-linearibus, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
coftatisj floribus 
ratiffimis j fcapo 
( Gladiolus with nearly linear-ribbed leaves; blof- 
foms gaping, afh-coloured, and very fweet 
fcented; ftem many flowered. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The two-valved Sheath. 
2. A Bloflbm, with the chives in their place, fpread open. 
3. The Pointal complete. 
IS ringens, given on Plate XXVII. Vol. I. of this work; the 
een of it, is in the Hibbertian collection, from whence our figure was 
month of May. It is a ftrong variety, but we cannot confider the dif- 
.p, , ,, , figure, of fufficient prominence to warrant a fpecific diftinCtion. 
mh TT' of ^ Hope; .her 
rc ramcr delicate, and the treatment muft be fuch as direaed for the former variety of this fpecies. 
ferencc it exhibits, from < 
