PLATE CLV, 



IXIA POLYSTACHIA. 



Many-fpiked Ixia. 



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CLASS in. ORDER L 

 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHAUACTEK. 



Corolla 6-partita, patens, equalis. Stigmata || Blossom 6-divifions, fpreading, equal. Summits 

 3, ereaiufculo-patula. three, nearly upright and fpreading. 



jl See Ixia reflexa. Vol. I. Plate XIV. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ixia foliis linearlbus; fcapo fpicis pluribus; flo- n Ixia with linear leaves; flower-ftem with many 

 ribus oppofitis, fpicatis J corollis albidis. fpikes; flowers grow oppofite and fpiked; 



II bloflbms white. 



EEFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The two fheaths of tlie Empalement. 



2. A flower cut open to fliew die fltuation of the Chives, 



3. The Pointal natural fize. 



This is the plant which is figured by Miller, in the coloured plates which correfpond with the didtionary, 

 104, t. 155. fig. 2. nnder the fpecific title it here bears ; and, fays the Kew Catalogue, was cultivated 

 by him 1/57. Since this is the firlt which bore the title of Polyftachia, and being of the colour we 

 think is moftly primitive in flowers, we have given it the preference; and Ihall confider all the other 

 18, (of which we have drawings and decidedly of this fpecies) as varieties from this. The flowers of 

 this fpecies are more lafting than moll of the others ; and are in general, efpecially this fort, very 

 hardy. It propagates freely by the root and by feed. Our drawing was made at the nurlery, Ham- 

 jnerfmith, laft year, in the month of May. 



