PLATE CXLVII. 



GLADIOLUS CUSP I DAT US. 



Spear-fpotted Gladiolus, 



CLASS m. ORDER L 



TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 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 folils lineari-enfiformibus, glabris; co- 

 rolla ringente; laciniis longiflimis, acumi- 

 natis, undulatis, fubsequalibus, tribus in- 

 ferioribus in medio macula oblonga notatis. 



Gladiolus with leaves that are linearly fword- 

 fhaped and fmooth; bloflbm gaping; feg- 

 ments very long, tapered to the point, 

 waved and nearly equal, the three lower in 

 the middle have an oblong Ipot. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The two fheaths of the Empalement. 



2. A bloflbm cut open, with the Chives remaining attached. 



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



The Gladiolus here figured, reprefents a variety of one of the moft errant fpecies of the Genus, 

 known commonly by the name of Spade Gladiolus, and of which we have drawings of eight, quite^ 

 diftinA; yet all, unqueftionably, originating in one common parent. It was introduced in 1796, 

 from the Cape of Good Hope, by Mr. R. Williams, nurferyman of Turnham-green, near Brentford; 

 is a very hardy greenhoule bulb, increafes from the root in abundance, if planted in very fandy 

 peat earth, and flowers about the Month of April, or May. 



