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P L A T E CXXXI.
G E R A N I U M LACINI ATUM.
Ragged-leaved Geranium.
C L A S S XVL ORDER IV. of Suppi.Sy/iem.
Feg. 1781.
MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
M o n o g y n a . Stigmata quinqué. Fmtlus roftratus,
penta-coccus.
One Pointal , Five Summits. Fruit furnifiied
witli long awns, five dry berries.
SeeGEKANiUM g k a n d i f l o r u m , P I . X I I . Vol.1.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Geranium foliia radlcalibus, integris laciniatifque,
petiolis filiformibus; calycibus monophyllis;
Staminibus quinqué fertilibus;
radice tuberofa.
Geranium with leaves growing from the root,
entire and jagged, foot-ftalks thread-fliaped;
cups one leaved; five fertile chives; root
tuberous.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement, with its tubular part laid open.
2. The Chives and Pointal, as they ftand in the bloifom, magnified.
3. The fame cut open, and detached from the Pointal, magnified.
4. The Pointal, magnified.
T h e Ragged-leaved Geranium may be confidered as an herbaceous plant, for it rarely retains its leaves
longer than September; and when in a ftate of inafition, ihould be watered but fparingly, otheiwife
the root will be fubjeft to rot. It may be increafed by parting the roots about March, which iliould
be afterwards planted in rich mould, and placed on a flielf in the hot-houfe; where they will flower
in iVIay or June. From an imported plant, in the Hibbertian colleaion, our drawing was made this
year.
A continual harping on the fame fubjcft, may pcriiaps appear rather tirefome; but, as almoft
every real new fpecies of Geranium, which falls under our obfervation, fcems to add a freih proof of
the futility of the new arrangement, we cannot forbear noticing it. This fpecies, for inftance, has
every other effential generic charafter of Monfieur L'Heritier's Pelargonium, but unfortunately the
moft eflential. Upon an accurate examination of a number of flowers, before they had expanded,
(the only time when it can be truly afcertained), in no one inftance, was there more than five tips to
be found. Where to place it, with Erodium, or Pelargonium.'