COROLLA sexpartita, ringens. Stamina adscendentia. BLOSSOM six divisions, gaping. Chives ascending. See GLADIOLUS ROSEUS. Plate XI. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Gladiolus foliis lanceolatis, plicatis, pilosis; scapo toto florigero longitudine foliorum; corolla ringente, laciniis longissimis, divaricatis, undulatis; spatha trivalvi. Gladiolus with lance-shaped leaves, plaited and hairy; flower-stem quite covered with flowers the length of the leaves; blossom gaping, the segments very long, spreading different ways and waved; sheath three valved. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The three valved Sheath. 2. A Blossom cut open and expanded, the Chives remaining attached. 4. The Seed-bud, Shaft and its Summits, one of them detached and magnified. The Hibbertian collection has furnished us with this extraordinarily handsome Gladiolus. Our drawing was taken at Clapham, in August this year, when we were informed by Mr. Hibbert that he had received the bulbs but a few months before, from his collector at the Cape. It has little likeness to any one of the Genus yet in England; but from the character of the leaves, we should incline to think, the treatment required for Ixia plicata, (of which species we have drawings of more than twenty varieties, known under the names of I. villosa, I. rubro-cyanea, I. punicea, I. purpurea, &c. &c.) that is to say, to be kept through the winter months, in more heat than is required for the generality of Ixias and Gladioluses. [Illustration] PLATE CXXXVIII. VACCINIUM AMOENUM. _Broad-leaved Whortle-berry._ CLASS VIII. ORDER I. _OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Eight Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX superus. Corolla monopetala. FILAMENTA receptaculo inserta. Bacca quadrilocularis, polysperma. CUP superior. Blossom one petal. THREADS fixed into the receptacle. A Berry with four cells and many seeds. See VAC. ARCTOSTAPHYLLOS, Pl. XXX. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Vaccinium foliis utrinque acuminatis, subserrulatis, deciduis; floribus racemosis, pedunculis bracteatis, calycibus reflexis, corollis cylindraceis. Stamina decem. Whortle-berry with leaves tapering to both ends, a little sawed at the edges and falling off; flowers grow in long bunches, foot-stalks with floral leaves, cups reflexed, blossoms cylinder-shaped. Ten Chives. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Flower complete. 2. The Empalement, with the floral leaves. 3. The Chives, magnified. 4. The Shaft and its Summit, magnified. 5. A nearly ripe Berry. 6. The same, cut transversely, magnified.