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P L A T E CCCXI.
G E R A N I U M PINNATUM
JVmged-kaved Geranium.
CLASS XVL ORDER IV.
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
MONOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. Fruflus roftratus,
penta-coccus.
O N E P O I N T A L . FiveSummits. Fruit furniihed
with long awns, five dry berries.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Geranium foliis pinna'tis; foliolis fubrotundoovatis,
hirfutis ; floribus flavis, ilaminibus
quinque fertilibus; fcapo polyftacliioj radice
tuberofa. '
Geranium with winged leaves; leaflets rather
round-egg-ihaped, and hairy; flowers yellow
; five fertile chives; flower - ftem
branched; root tuberous.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A Flower-cup, natural fize, cut open.
2. The Chives and Pointal, natural fize.
3. The Chives cut and fpread open, magnified.
4. The Pointal and Seed-bud, magnified.
THE fpecific title of this plant, originally, belonged to a fpecies which is, now, confounded amongft
the numerous varieties of Geranium lacerum. And, indeed, the prefent plant is taken as a fynonim,
byWilldenow, with G. aftragalifolium, of which we have given a figure in a preceding number. This
was among the firft of the tuberous kind of Geraniums known to our gardens. Mr. F. Maffon, according
to°the Kew Catalogue, firft introduced it to the Kew Gardens in I788. It has nothing part
i c u l a r ' in its charader to require a different treatment from the reft of the tuberous fpecies. Our
drawing was made from a plant in the Hammerfmi t h Colleaion, in March 1801.
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