Volume Iii Part 4 (2/2)

SPARTIUM _junceum_ ramis oppositis teretibus apice floriferis, foliis lanceolatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 643._

SPARTIUM arborescens, feminibus lenti similibus. _Bauh. Pin. 396._

Spanish Broom. _Park. Parad. p. 442. t. 443. fig. 4._

[Ill.u.s.tration: No 85]

Grows naturally in France, Spain, Italy, and Turkey; bears our climate extremely well; is a common shrub in our nurseries and plantations, which it much enlivens by its yellow blossoms: flowers from June to August, or longer in cool seasons.

Is raised by seeds, which generally come up plentifully under the shrubs.

MILLER mentions a variety of it, which, as inferior to the common sort, does not appear to be worth cultivating.

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GLADIOLUS COMMUNIS. COMMON CORN-FLAG.

_Cla.s.s and Order._

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Corolla_ s.e.xpart.i.ta, ringens. _Stamina_ adscendentia.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

GLADIOLUS _communis_ foliis ensiformibus, floribus distantibus.

GLADIOLUS utrinque floridus? _Bauh. Pin. 41._

The French Corn-Flag. _Park. Parad. p. 189. t. 191. f. 1._

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Grows wild in the corn fields of most of the warmer parts of Europe, varies with white and flesh-coloured blossoms, increases so fast, both by offsets and seeds, as to become troublesome to the cultivator; hence, having been supplanted by the Greater Corn-Flag, the _Byzantinus_ of MILLER, whose blossoms are larger, and more shewy, it is not so generally found in gardens as formerly.

It flowers in June.

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