MISCELLANEOUS MATTER 
OF THE 
BOTANICAL REGISTER. 
1843 . 
MONSTRUM PL ANTI. Plant’s Vegetable Monster . 
“ What is this, of which three roots are represented in 
the vignette ? — In consequence of the statement made by Mr. 
Plant, nurseryman of Cheadle, (see above Plant’s anisanth, 
1842, fol. 3/.) that he had obtained mules from a Gladiolus 
by an Amaryllidaceous plant, I was anxious to investigate 
minutely its correctness. It will be proper to premise, that 
the mule figured as Plant’s anisanth is a true Gladiolus, raised 
between Glad, splendens (Anisanthus splendens, Sweet Br. 
FI. G.) and a hybrid, sold under the name of Col villi, between 
G. blandus, cardinalis, and tristis. Mr. Sweet improperly 
made a genus Anisanthus of G. splendens and Cunonius, 
and another genus of G. abbreviatus, three species of Gladio- 
lus, which have the lower lip abbreviated, a feature not more 
important than the conversion of the three petals into short 
bristles in Iris setosa. I always considered that something 
A — 1843. b 
