PLATE XXVII. 



GLADIOLUS RINGENS. Far. cinereo odprato. 

 Gaping AJh- coloured fweet Gladiolus. 



CLASS III. ORDER I. 



TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 6-partita, ringens. 

 Stamina adfeendentia. 



Blossom fix divifions, gaping. 

 Chives afcending. 

 See Plate XI. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gladiolus foliis linearibus, coftatis; floribus 

 ringentibus, cineriis, odoratiilimis. 



Gladiolus with linear, ribbed leaves; the blof- 

 foms gaping, alb-coloured, and very l'weet- 

 fcented. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The two fheaths of the Enipalement. 



2. A Bloflom cut open to expofe the infertion of the Chives. 



3. The Pointal (one Summit magnified). 



4. A Seed in its coat. 



This moft defirable Gladiolus, is not a perfect novelty in the greenhoufe; although extremely fcarce, 

 it has been introduced to us conflantly from the Cape of Good Hope, but from its great delicacy has 

 been repeatedly loft. The plants now in England, have been imported from Holland, from the col- 

 lection of Meflrs. Voorhelm and Co. who about the year 1/03, purchafed the largeft collection ever 

 formed at the Cape, from a Frenchman who had been many years refident there. The Gladiolus 

 ringens about mid-day has the flavour of violets lb powerfully, that a fingle plant is fufficient to fcent 

 a whole greenhoufe. It is with difficulty preferved from rotting at the root; therefore fhnuld be 

 grown in very fandy peat, and fhould be expofed to dry as foon as the flower is gone. Is propagated 

 by the root, or by feed, which may be procured by great care not to over-water the bulb alter flower- 

 ing; but herein there is great danger. 



