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P L A T E CXXXVII.
G L A D I O L U S NANUS.
Dwarf Gladiolus.
C L A S S IIL O R D E R I.
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointai.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA fexpartita, rlngens. Stamina adlcendentia.
BLOSSOM fix divifions, gaping. Chives afcending.
S e e GLADIOLUS KOSEUS. Plate X I . Vol. I.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Gladiolus foliis lanceolatis, plicatls, pilofis; fcapo
toto florígero longitudine foliorum; corolla
ringente, laciniis longiflimis, divaricatis, undulatisj
fpatha trivalvi.
Gladiolus with lance-ihaped leaves, plaited and
hairy; flower-ftem quite covered with flowers
the length of the leaves; bloflbm gaping,
the fegments very long, fpreading different
ways and waved; flieath three valved.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The three valved Sheath.
2 . A Bloflbm cut open and expanded, the Chives remaining attached.
4. The Seed-budj Shaft and its Summits, one of them detached and magnified.
THE Hibbertian colleftion has furnilhed us with this extraordinarily handfome Gladiolus. Our drawing
was taken at Clapham, in Auguft this year, when we were informed by Mr. Hibbert that he had
received the bulbs but a few months before, from his colleflor at the Cape. It has little likenefs to
any one of the Genus yet in England; but from the character of the leaves, we fliould incline to
think, the treatment required for Ixia plicata, (of which fpecies we have drawings of more than
twenty varieties, known under the names of I. villofa, I. rubro-cyanea, I. punicea, I. purpurea, &c. &c.)
that is to fay, to be kept through the winter months, in more heat than is required for the generality
of Ixias and Gladiolufes.
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