G L A D I O L U S C A M P A N U L A T U S .
Bell-flowered Gladiolus.
C L A S S III. O R D E R I.
TKJANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointai.
E S S E N T I A L GENEIilC CHARACTER.
C O R O L L A fexpartita, ringens.
STAMINA adiecudentia.
BLOSSOM fix divifions, gaping.
C H I V E S a t t e n d i n g.
See PI. X I . V o l . 1 . G L A D I O L U S ROSEUS.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Gladiolus foliis lanceolatis, nervous, glabris;
lcapo fubtrifloro, foliis longior; corolla fubcampanulata,
palidè purpurea, laciniis lubx
q u a l i b u s ; ftigmatibus biridis.
Gladiolus with lance fliaped leaves, nerved and
fniooth; tlower-ttcm mollly three-flowered,
longer than the leaves; blollbm rather bellfliaped,
of a pale purple, the fegments nearly
equal, with die fummits two-cleft.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Sheaths of the Empalement.
2. A Flower fpread open, with the Chiv
3 . The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits,
attached.
; Summit detached and magnified.
T H E Bell-flowered Gladiolus, was amongfl the number of thofe imported from Holland, in the year
1704, by Merits. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith ; when they partook of that large colleflion, brought
to H a a r l em by a Frenchman ; who had been long rcfidcut at the Cape of Good Hope, where he had
cultivated molt of the bulbs prior to his bringing them to Europe. Nothing particular is required for
t h e management of this, more than the moll common of d i e Genus, from the Cape. It flowers in May,
and increates by the r o o t ; the feeds rarely ripen.