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P L A T E XXYII.
GLADIOLUS RINGENS. Par. c'mereo odor at o
Gaping A/h-coloured Jweet Gladiolus.
C L A S S III. ORDER I.
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENEKIC CHARACTER.
COKOLLA 6-partita, ringens.
S T A M I N A adfcendentia.
BLOSSOM fix divifioiis, gaping.
C H I V E S afcending.
See Plate XI.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gladiolus foliis linearibus, coftatis; floribus
ringentibus, cineriis, odoratiflimis.
Gladiolus with linear, ribbed leaves; the bloffoms
gaping, aih-coloured, and veiy fweetfcented.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The two flieatlis of the Empalement.
2. A Bloflbm cut open to expofe the infertion of the Chives.
3. The Pointal (one Summit magnified).
4. A Seed in its coat.
T H I S moft defirable Gladiolus, is not a perfed novelty in the greenhoule; although extremely fcarce,
it has been introduced to us conftantly from the Cape of Good Hope, but from its great delicacy has
been repeatedly loft. The plants now in England, have been imported from Holland, from the colleaion
of Meifrs. Voorhelm and Co. who about the year 1793, purchafed the largeft colleaion ever
formed at the Cape, from a Frenchman who had been many years refident there. The Gladiolus
ringens about mid-day has the flavour of violets fo powerfully, that a fingle plant is fufficient to fcent
a whole greenhoufe. It is wi th difficulty preferved from rotting at the root; therefore ihould be
grown in very fandy peat, and Ihould be expofed to dry as foon as the flower is gone. Is propagated
by the root, or by feed, which may be procured by great care not to over-water the bulb after flowering;
but herein there is great danger.