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G E H A N I U M OXALI D I F O L I U M .
Wood-Sorrel-leaved Geranium.
C L A S S XVL ORDER IV.
MONABELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.
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ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
MONOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. Fruaus roftratus,
penta-coccus.
O N E POINTAL. Five Summits. Fruit furniihed
with long awns, live dry berries.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Geranium foliis ternatis, foliolis ovatis, obtufis,
ciliatis; floribus pentandris; radice
tuberofa.
Geranium with leaves compofed of three leaflets,
which are egg-lhaped, obtufe, and fringed;
flowers with five fertile chives; root tuberous.
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement of a flower cut open, to ihew its tubular ftruaure.
2. The Chives and Pointal, natural fize.
3. The Chives fpread open, magnified.
4. The Pointal, natural fize.
5. The fame, magnified.
THE fpecies of Geranium here figured, is of the fame charafter, in all points of view, as moft of the
tuberous fpecies lately introduced from the Cape by G. Hibbert, Efq. in whofe colleaion, at Clapham,
it is only to be found, at prefent; and where our drawing was taken, in July 1802.
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