P L A T E CCXLVI.
G E R A N I U M I N C R A S S A T U M.
Flejlty-leaved Geranium.
CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.
MONADELPHIA DEC ANURIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
MONOOYNA. Stigmata quinque.
F K U C T U S roilratus, penta-coccus.
O N E P O I N T A L . Five Summits.
F R U I T furnillied with l o n g a w m , five dry berries.
See G E R A N I U M GRANDIFLOKUM. P I . X I I . V o l . 1.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
G e r a n i um foliis carnofis, inequaliter pinnatis feu
lobaiU, laciniis t i i d e n t a t i s , obtufis; corollis
f a t u r a t e rubris. ftriatis; floribus p e m a n d r i s;
r a d i c e tuberofa.
G e r a n i um with flefhy leaves, unequally winged
or lobed, fegments three-tootbed, blunt;
bloffoms of a deep r e d , a n d ftreaked; flowers
w i t h five fertile tips; root tuberous.
REFERENCE TO THE P L A T E.
1 . T h e Empalement cut open, t o fliew its tubular ftruchire.
2. T h e Chives fpread open.
3. T h e Pointal, natural fize, w i t h the fummits detached, magnified.
O U R figure, winch exhibits a final! plant, of this fuperb fpecies of tuberous Geranium was taken
m the month of J u n e , this year, 1802, at Meffrs. Colville's nurfery, K i n g s Road, Ct.elfea and where it
is fell in high perfection, this prefent month of J u l y . We have every reafon to believe from all the
a u t h o n t . e s we are mailers of, that this p l a n t has n o t , dll now, flowered in Europe. It forms a verv
large tuberous root, by t h e dividing of which it is to be propagated; as w e fufpect .he feeds will not
r i p e n on tins fpecies more than moil of its congeners. It has the fame manner with the refl of the
tuberous lpecies, lofing its leaves in winter, when they are fubjefl to rot, if much watered Appears
to flourifli in fandy peat, with a fmall portion of r o t t e n dang.