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P L A T E XXVIII.
G E R A N I U M ELEGANS.
Round-leaved Geranium.
C L A S S XVL ORDERIL
MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
Monogyna. Stigmata 5. Fruftus rollratus,
5-coccus.
One PoiNTAt. Five Summits. Fruit furniflied
with long awns, 5 dry berries.
See Ge r a n i um gkandi f lorum, Plate XII.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Geranium pedunculis multifloris; calycibus monophyllisj
foliis orbiculatis, ferratis rigidis,
petiolis longiffimis; caule herbaceo.
Geranium, the fruit-ftalks fupporting many flowers
j cups of one leaf; the leaves round,
fawed, and harlh, with veiy long foot-ftalks;
item herbaceous.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement cut open, to ihew its tubular ihape to its bafe.
2. The Chives, and Pointai, natural iize.
3. The Pointai, magnified.
This truly elegant fpecies of Geranium was introduced to us from the Cape of Good Hope, in the
year 1795; being raifed from feeds, received from thence, by Meifrs. Lee and Kennedy, in whofe
colleftion it flowered for the firft time this year, about the latter end of May, and from which fpecimen
this figure was taken. It is one of thofe that have in general feven fertile tips, and, therefore,
muft be placed under Mr. L'Heritier's genus Pelargonium, by thofe who follow his new arrangement.
It is a hardy plant, and requires only a common greenhoufe for its proteftion, where it will leedj
which fecms to be the readiell mode of propagating it, as it produces but very few branches; thriving
beft in rich earth.