The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants : containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrated Linnaeus : in English and Latin : to each description is added a short history of the plant, as to its time of flowering, culture, native place of growth, when introduced, and by whom . ne Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla sexpartita, ringens. Stamina adfcen-dentia. Blossom fix divifions, gaping. Chives afcend- Gladiolus
The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants : containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrated Linnaeus : in English and Latin : to each description is added a short history of the plant, as to its time of flowering, culture, native place of growth, when introduced, and by whom . ne Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla sexpartita, ringens. Stamina adfcen-dentia. Blossom fix divifions, gaping. Chives afcend- Gladiolus roseus, PI. XI. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Gladiolus foliis line3ribus, coftatis; floribus rin-gentibus, cineriis; petalis undulatis. Gladiolus with linear leaves, ribbed; flowersgaping, aih coloured; petals waved. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two valves of the Empalement. 2. A BlolTbm fpread open, with the chives in their place. 3. The Pointal, one of the divifions of the fummit magnified. The Clapham collection we believe to be the only one which, at prefent, poftefies this handfomevariety of the Gaping Gladiolus. It was introduced, from the Cape, by Mr. Niven in 180O. Ourdrawing was made in Auguft of the above year, but its natural feafon of flowering, if we may judgeby analogy, fhould be about May or June, at latere. It increafes by the root, and fhould be treatedas a tender Gladiolus. The flower is without fmell. = ^_ _^-~. V ( ;/ifi//c///,i —___ . - PLATE CCLXXVI. MONSONIA - leaved Monfonia. CLASS XVIII. ORDER DODECANDRIA. Threads in many Sots. Twelve Chive CHARACTER. | Empalemlnt. Cup five-leaved upright; leaflets lance-fhaped, pointed at the end, equal, and remaining.| Blossom. Five petals, inverfely egg-iliaped, equal, flaccid, plaited, unequally toothed at the Fifteen threads, upright, formed into five bodies, three to each. Tips oblong, Seed-bud five-fided, fliort. Shaft columnar. Five fummits, recurv
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