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PLATE CCXXVII. 



GLADIOLUS RINGENS. Var. muUiJl^us. 



Gaping Gladiolus. Many-Jlowered Far. 



CLASS IIL ORDER L 

 TRIJNDRIu4 MONOGYNI^. Three Chives. One Pomtal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla fex-partita, rlngeus. 

 Stamina adfcendentia. 



Blossom fix-divided, gaping. 

 Chives afcending. 



See Gladiolus koseuSj Plate XI. Vol.1. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gladiolus foliis fub-linearibus, coftatis; fioribus 

 ringentibus cineriis, odoratiffimis ; fcapo 

 multifloro. 



Gladiolus with nearly linear-ribbed leaves; blof- 

 foms gaping, alb-colourcd, and very fweet 

 fcented; flem many flowered. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The two-valved Sheath. 



2. A Bloirom, with the chives in their place, fpread open. 



3. The Pointal complete. 



This is a fine variety of the Gladiolus ringens, given on Plate XXVII. Vol. I. of this work; the 

 only fpecimen we have ever feen of it, is in the Hibbertian colleftion, from whence our figure was 

 taken, lallyear, 1801, in the month of May. It is a ftrong variety, but we cannot confider the dif- 

 ference it exhibits, from our firll figure, of fufficient prominence to warrant a Ipecific diflindion. 

 The bulbs were received at Clapham, in the autumn of 1800, from the Cape of Good Hope; they 

 are rather delicate, and the treatment mull be fuch as dircded for the former variety of this fpecies. 



