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P L A T E CXXXVI.
G E R A N I U M CRASSIFOLI UM.
Thick-leaved Geranium.
C L A S S XVI. ORDER IV. «/ Sv/in^-
Feg. 178I.
MONJDELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTEE.
MONOGYNA. Stigmata 5.
penta-coccus.
Fruflus roftratus, O N E POINTAL. Five fummits. Fruit furniflied
with long awns, five dry berries.
SeeGEKANIUM GKANDIFLORUM, PI. XI I , Vol. I.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Geranium foliis acuminatis, lobato-pinnatis, fubcarnofis,
laciniis inequaliter dentatis; pedunculis
fubquadrifloris; floribus pentandris}
petalis asqualibus, purpureis.
Geranium with leaves tapering to the point,
winged in lobes and rather flefliy, the fegments
unequally toothed; foot-flalks generally
four flowers; the flowers have five fertile
tips; petals equal and purple.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement.
2. One Petal of the BlofTom.
3. The Chives and Pointal.
4. The Chives, fpread open.
5. The fame, magnified.
6. The Pointal, magnified.
THE thick-leaved Geranium is a native of the ifland of Cyprus, and was introduced by Dr. Sibtliorpe,
on his return from vifiting the Grecian iflands, in the year 1788. It is, we think, no more than a
biennial plant at beft, as it feldom furvives the fécond winter, and but rarely the firft. If the feeds are
fown in the month of March, the plants will flower the enfuing autumn, and generally produce ripe
feeds, if kept in a llieltered and warm fituation. This plant is unqueftionably the true Erodium of
L'Heritier, and thofe who admit of that innovation, being the one, apparently, upon which he formed
his Generic diftindion; as we believe, no other fpecies, fo denominated, has every conftituent Eifential
part neceflary to his Genus.
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