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P L A T E CCCCXX.
G E R A N I UM FLORIBUNDUM.
Tuberous Many-Jîowerecl Geranium.
C L A S S XVL O R D E R IV.
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
MONOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. Fructus rostratus
pentacoccus.
ONE PoiNTAL. Five summits. Fruit beaked,
five berries >
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
G E R A N I U M , tuberosum, pinnis foliorum oppositis
bipartitis, laciniis ellipticis ; scapis
numerosis ramosis, petalis clavato-linearibus.
G E R A N I U M , tuberous, with the pinnae of the
leaves opposite and two -parted, witli their
segments elliptical; numerous branched
flower-stalks, and clavatedly-linear petals.
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. The seed-bud, chives, and pointai.
3. The chives spread open.
4. The seed-bud and pointai.
5. The same magnified.
G E R A N I U M floribundum appears to be not only a nondescript species of the Erodium family of this
extensive tribe of plants; but at the same time, a new and brilliant one. Few in number are the
species which equal it in beauty : and still more rare are those which can be allowed to surpass it.
It is of extremely humble growth, and its roots are taberous: from tlie crowns of which it
throws up, in the early part of summer, a considerable number of flowering stems, each adorned with
many flowers ; whence our specific name of floribundum.
It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and prospers with the same treatment as the other dwarf
Geraniums; and is propagated like them, by carefully dividing tlie tubers of its roots.
Our figure was made from the Clapham collection, which it is well known abounds more in this
description of plants, than any other existing in this country.