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PLATE DLXXXIX.
G L A D I O L U S ANGUSTUS, ?nmor.
Small Narrow-leaved Coriiflag.
CLASS IIL ORDER I.
TRUNDRU MONOGYNU. Three Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA sexpartitaj ringens. Stamina adscendentia.
BLOSSOM six divisions, gaping. Chives ascending.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
GLADIODÜS foliis linearibus, longis, costatis;
corollis flavescentibus; petalis tribus inferioribus
rubro notatis.
Gladiolus angustus. Jacquin, Icones, tab. 252,
vol. ii.
CoRNFLAG witli linear leaves long and ribbed :
blossom yellowish; the three lower petal«
marked with red.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The outer sheath of the empalement.
2. The inner sheath.
3. A blossom spread open,
4. Seed-bud and pointal.
5. Flower of a larger variety.
OUR figure represents a plant from the nursery of Mr. Williams, and which we at first were inclined to
regard as a distinct species from the Gladiolus angustus of Jacquin : but meeting soon after with a
plant in tlie collection of Messrs. Whitley and Brames, qf larger dimensions, (a flower of which we
have represented,) its intermediate character appears, upon comparison, to connect a regular chain of
variation, the smallest link of which is (at present) the one now figured.
Both plants are of easy culture, requiring no other treatment than what is cpmmon to bulbs of thi*
class.
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