Volume 9 — PLATE DLXXXIX. GLADIOLUS ANGUSTUS, minor. Small Narrow-leaved Cornflag.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla sexpartita, ringens. Stamina adscendentia.

Blossom six divisions, gaping. Chives ascending.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Gladiolus foliis linearibus, longis, costatis; corollis flavescentibus; petalis tribus inferioribus rubro notatis.

Gladiolus angustus. Jacquin. Icones, tab. 252, vol. ii.

Cornflag with linear leaves long and ribbed: blossom yellowish; the three lower petals marked with red.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

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 the collection of Messrs. Whitley and Brames, of 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 common to bulbs of this class.