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Gladiolus blandus. Ait. Corm medium size, globose: st. 2 ft. or less tall, sometimes branched: lvs. usually 4, 1 ft. or less long and ½ - ¾ in. wide: fls. few, white and red-tinged, the curved tube 1 ½ in- long; segms. all oblong or oblong-spatulate and flaring or recurved, some of them red-marked in the throat; stamens more than half length of limb. S. Afr., coast region; variable. B.M. 625. Sometimes pure white. B.M. 648, G. albidus, Jacq.; pink or flesh-color, B.M. 645; G. carneus, Delar.; segms. white, with many pink markings, B. M. 3680, G. mortonius, Herb.; taller, with longer lvs. and perianth-tube, G. excelsus, Sweet; pink fls. with red blotches on 3 lower segms., var. hibbertii, Hort. G. blandus is an old garden plant.
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Gladiolus carneus (syn. Gladiolus blandus. Ait.). Corm medium size, globose: st. 2 ft. or less tall, sometimes branched: lvs. usually 4, 1 ft. or less long and ½ - ¾ in. wide: fls. few, white and red-tinged, the curved tube 1 ½ in- long; segms. all oblong or oblong-spatulate and flaring or recurved, some of them red-marked in the throat; stamens more than half length of limb. S. Afr., coast region; variable. B.M. 625. Sometimes pure white. B.M. 648, G. albidus, Jacq.; pink or flesh-color, B.M. 645; G. carneus, Delar.; segms. white, with many pink markings, B. M. 3680, G. mortonius, Herb.; taller, with longer lvs. and perianth-tube, G. excelsus, Sweet; pink fls. with red blotches on 3 lower segms., var. hibbertii, Hort. G. blandus is an old garden plant.
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==Species==
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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