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 . ls difengaged. 3. The Pointal, magnified. 4. A Seed-veflel, natural fize. 5. A ripe Seed, natural fize. This we believe is amongft the molt rare of the plant
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 . ls difengaged. 3. The Pointal, magnified. 4. A Seed-veflel, natural fize. 5. A ripe Seed, natural fize. This we believe is amongft the molt rare of the plants, hitherto introduced, from New Holland. Ithas been figured in the third Number of New Holland Botany, publifhed by Dr. Smith in l~Q3: it isthere faid not to have been, at that time, in England; but, as it had not then flowered, the plant wasnot known, although in the collection of Mefire. Lee and Kennedy, three years precedent to that pub-lication; and where, it firft flowered in 1/95. Our figure was taken in September I/89 from a plant(we fear the only one at prefent in this kingdom) in the Hibbertian collection. It has not yet beenpropagated with us, and the feeds do not mature. The plant is nearly four feet high, and forms a hand-fome, bufliy fhrub, continuing in flower nearly the whole fummer. Over the whole plant there is abrown, or rufty-like appearance, which takes much from its beauty. It flourishes in peat earth. <jY. ( in/cttttu/m PLATE CCXIX. GLADIOLUS CUSPIDATUS. fv.^oi»^. Spear-Jpotted Gladiolus. Far. with m/fed petals. CLASS III. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. Corolla fex-partita, adfcendentia. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. i| Blossom fix. divisions, gaping.|| Chives Gladiolus roseus, Plate XI. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Gladiolus foliis ; co-rolla ringente ; laciniis longiffimis, acumi-natis, crifpatis, fubaequalibus, tribus inferi-oribus in medio macula oblonga
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