PLATE CXLIL 



GLADIOLUS CRISPUS. 



€urled- leaved Gladiolus . 



CLASS III. ORDER I. 



TRIANDR1A MONOGYNU. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla fexpartita, ringens. Stamina adfcen- 

 dentia. 



Blossom fix divifions, gaping. Chives afcend- 

 ing. 

 See Gladiolus roseus. Plate XI. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gladiolus foliis enfiformibus, ad oras crifpus; 

 floribus fecundis, palide rubris ; laciniis 

 corolla rotundatis; tubo gracili, longif- 

 fimo. 



Gladiolus with fword fhaped leaves, curled at 

 the edges ; flowers point all one way, and 

 are of a pale red ; fegments of the bloffom 

 rounded ; tube flender, and very long. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The Empalement. 



2. A Flower cut open, the Chives remaining attached. 



3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit. 



A. Figure of this Gladiolus may be found in the Ic. rar. 2. of Profeflbr Jacquin, t. 267, by thofe who 

 pofiefs that elegant and invaluable work. The plant from which our drawing was taken, and we 

 believe the first that has been feen in Britain, flowered in the collection of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clap 

 ham Common, laft year in the month of July. We do not perceive that the treatment of this plant, 

 fhould differ from the reft of its congeners. 



