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GERANIUM tuberosum ; var. ramosum. 
Tuberous Geranium, branched variety. 
DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. GERANIACEZ. 
GERANIUM. Linneus. 
G. tuberosum ; radice subglobosa, caule simplici erecto nudo v. medio diphyllo, 
foliis 5-7-partitis : lobis pinnatifidis ; laciniis passim incisis, cymá terminali 
patenti trichotoma glanduloso-pilosá, petalis emarginatis, staminibus liberis : 
filamentis recurvis pilosis alternis majoribus. Flora Greca, t. 659. cum 
synonymis. 
Var. ramosum ; caule folioso ramoso, pedunculis sub-geminis sepius axillaribus. 
This curious Geranium is a hardy herbaceous plant, with 
fleshy roots the size of a walnut. It is met with in the 
kingdom of Naples, which seems its most western limit, and 
it occurs as far to the eastward as the Euphrates, where it 
was met with in abundance by Col. Chesney. In the fields 
of Greece and some of the islands of the Archipelago it is 
common, and it occurs to the north as far as the Crimea. 
Usually its stem is quite simple, and produces two or 
three radical leaves, above which it rises to the height of five 
or six inches, where it forms a pair of opposite leaves, from 
between which rises the cyme of purple flowers. Such is 
the state of the plant in my specimens from Smyrna, the 
Volga, Naples, and the Euphrates; so 1 find it in others 
dried many years ago in the Cambridge Botanic Garden, 
and in Sibthorp’s Greek Herbarium, and it is so described 
by all systematic Botanists. The plant now figured, collected 
near Potenza by the Hon. W. F. Strangways, is however 
quite different, branching from its very base like other 
