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 . laciniis longiffimis, acumi-natis, undulatis, fubsequalibus, tribus in-ferioribus in medio macula oblonga notatis. Gladiolus with leaves that are linearly fw
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 . laciniis longiffimis, acumi-natis, undulatis, fubsequalibus, tribus in-ferioribus in medio macula oblonga notatis. Gladiolus with leaves that are linearly fword-fhaped and fmooth; bloffom gaping; feg-ments very long, tapered to the point,waved and nearly equal, the three lower inthe middle have an oblong fpot. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two lheaths of the Empalement. 2. A bloffom cut open, with the Chives remaining attached. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit. The Gladiolus here figured, reprefents a variety of one of the molt errant fpecies of the Genus,known commonly by the name of Spade Gladiolus, and of which we have drawings of eight, quite,diftinft; yet all, unquestionably, originating in one common parent. It was introduced in 179^,from the Cape of Good Hope, by Mr. R. Williams, nurferyman of Turnham-green, near Brentford;is a very hardy greenhouie bulb, increales from the root in abundance, if planted in very fandypeat earth, and flowers about the Month of April, or May. /. < ffacfto <•//. i/i n/ii /. ...... KsaH ? *f* i - i irm PLATE CXLVIII. LACHENALIA QUADRICOLOR, Four-coloured hachenalia. CLASS VI. ORDER MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Cob. 6-petala, infera; petalis 3 interioribuslongioribus. Stamina erefta. Capfula fub-ovata, trialata. Semina globofa. Bloss, 6-petals, beneath; the three inner pe-tals the longest. Chives erect. Capfulenearly , three winged. Seedsglobular. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Lachenalia foliis geminis, lineari-lanceolatis;fcapo erefto
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