PLATE CCXIX. 



GLADIOLUS CUSPIDATUS. Var. p^talis criJfU. 



Spear-Jpotted Gladiolus. Far. wUh cri/fedpetah. 



CLASS m. ORDER L 

 TRIJNDRIA MONOGYNIji. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



Corolla fex-partita, ringenB. 

 Stamina adfcendentia. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



i| Blossom fix. divifions, gaping. 

 II Chives afcending. 

 See Gladiolus roseus, Plate XI. Vol, I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gladiolus foliis lineari-enfiformibus.glabns; co- 

 rolla ringente ; laciniis longiflimis, acumi- 

 uatis, crifpatis, fubaequalibus, tribus inferi- 

 oribus in medio macula oblonga notalis ; 

 roroUis albicantibus. 



Gladiolus with linear - fword - fliaped fraooth 

 leaves; blofTom gaping, fegments very long, 

 tapered to the point, crifped and nearlyequal, 

 the three lower ones in the middle have a» 

 oblong fpot; bloffoms whitith. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



i. The two valves of the Empalement. 



2. The Blollom cut open, with the chives. 



3. The Seed bud. Shaft and Summit, one divifion of the fummit magnified. 



Although this fpecies of Gladiolus is as old in our gardens as, almoft any, we have ; yet, it is not 

 much known, from the unfrequency of its flowering, of which ihere is no certainty. The belt method 

 to afTift it with a vigorous growth, is to place it in a confiderable degree of warmth, fuch as the heat 

 of the hot-boufe, the pot being kept in a pan, with water. With this affiflance, it may be made to 

 flower, fometimes, about the end of Miy. It is a very hardy bulb, in what regards the root, and its 

 prefervation. Our figure was made in May, 1800, from a plant which had been treated in the above 

 Manner, at the Hammerfmith nurfery. 



