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P L A T E CCCXVII.
G E R A N I U M U N D U L A T U M . rar.Minor.
Waved-flowered Gera?iiiim. ujcr var.
CLASS XVL ORDER IV.
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Tlireacls united. Ten Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTEE.
Monogyna. Stigmata quinqué. Fruñus roftratuSj
penta-coccus.
One PoiNTAL. Five Summits. Fruit furuiihed
with long awns, five dry berries.
See Geranium gkandiflorum, PI. X I I . Vol. I.
SPECIFIC CHAEACTER.
Geranium foliis radicalibus lanceolatis, integerrimis,
petiolis longitudine foliorum ; petalis
cuneiformibus, equalibus, undulatis ;
floribus pentandris; radice tuberofa.
Geranium with the root leaves lance-ihaped,
quite entire; foot-ftalks tlie length of the
leaves; petals wedge-ibaped, equal, waved;
flowers with five fertile chives; root tuberous.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
]. The Empalement cut open, natural fize.
2. The Chives cut and fpread open, magnified.
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits.
This very handfome tuberous Geranium, and which we have rather placed as a variety than a fpecies,
might perhaps by fome have been confidered as fufficiently diftinft to have formed a fpecies; but,
indeed, much difficulty arifes in the determining, amongft this variable tribe, where to fix determinate
fpecific charafter. Our prefent figure was taken from the Hibbertian Colleaion, where as yet
the plant is only to be feen in Britain. It flowers in June or July; does not perfeft its feeds, nor has
the appearance of eafily propagating from the root; the ufual method with this link of the Geranium
family. It thrives in fandy peat and leaf mould.
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