Volume 2 — PLATE CXLII. GLADIOLUS CRISPUS. Curled-leaved Gladiolus.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla sexpartita, ringens. Stamina adscendentia.

Blossom six divisions, gaping. Chives ascending.

See Gladiolus roseus. Plate XI. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Gladiolus foliis ensiformibus, ad oras crispus; floribus secundis, palidè rubris; laciniis corollæ rotundatis; tubo gracili, longissimo.

Gladiolus with sword shaped leaves, curled at the edges; flowers point all one way, and are of a pale red; segments of the blossom rounded; tube slender, and very long.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement. 2. A Flower cut open, the Chives remaining attached. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit.

A Figure of this Gladiolus may be found in the Ic. rar. 2. of Professor Jacquin, t. 267, by those who possess that elegant and invaluable work. The plant from which our drawing was taken, and we believe the first that has been seen in Britain, flowered in the collection of G. Hibbert, Esq. Clapham Common, last year in the month of July. We do not perceive that the treatment of this plant, should differ from the rest of its congeners.

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