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 . agrant, but of fhort duration. To the late J. Slater, Efq. of Laytonftone, we owethis plant; which was one of that rich cargo brought home in the Carnatic, f
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 . agrant, but of fhort duration. To the late J. Slater, Efq. of Laytonftone, we owethis plant; which was one of that rich cargo brought home in the Carnatic, for him, by CaptainConnor, in the year 1793- Our figure was taken at the Hammerfmitb nurfery. The acceliion tothis magnificent Genus has been considerable within a very few years: to the fpecies formerly culti-vated in Britain, viz. the grandifiora with its four varieties, the glauca and its two varieties, theacuminata and tripetala, are now added; the auriculata and maxima, from America; the pumila,fuscata and tomentosa or Yow-lang, from China; making in all, with the varieties, fifteen. The fhortacquaintance we have with the three laft from China, or the knowledge of what part of that extenfivecountry they are natives, does not enable us to decide, whether they will endure our winters; althoughwe may on the two from America, as being hardy plants, or at least equally hardy with the granHiflora, being from the fame part of America. ,/,/ //////I//,/ HB ^ PLATE CCXXVII. GLADIOLUS RINGENS. vm.«*w»~». Gaphlg GladiolllS. Many-Jlowered Far. CLASS III. ORDER MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla fex-partita, ringens. L Blossom fix-divided, gaping. Stamina adfctndentia. || Chives afcending. See Gladiolus roseus, Plate XI. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Gladiolus foliis fub-linearibus, coftatis; fioribusringentibus cineriis, odoratifiimis; lcapomultifloro. Gladiolus with nearly linear-ribbed leaves; blof-foms gaping, alb-coloured, and ver
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