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GERANIUM erianthum 



Woolly -flowered Geranium. 



MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA 



Nat. ord. GeraniacejE. 

 GERANIUM. Bot. Reff. 1839. fol. \0. 



ianthum ; perenne, uncuque moiuter puDescens, puis pmuiw gia UUU ««»<. , 

 foliis omnibus petiolatis palmato-5 - 7-lobis, lobis trilobis rhombeo-cune- 



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confertis 



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pilosiusculis. 

 G. erianthum. DeCand. Prodr. 1. 641. 



A robust hardv perennial, of easy culture, growing from 

 *„ *-« feet high, in any good garden soil. It flowers 



the months of June and July, and is easily 



freely d 



of 



increased by dividing the old plant when ma 



or bv seeds ; the seeds should be sown directly they are ripe, 



and "then they will flower the following season. 



It was raised in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, 

 from seeds received from the late Mr. Moreton Dyer, from 

 North-west America. 



Although the hardy herbaceous Geraniums are not much 

 cultivated, yet some of the species are among tne handsomest 

 and best of that class ; easy to preserve, and highly orna- 

 mental to the flower beds, or to rough rocky places where 



their somewhat formal bushy mode of growth is destroyed 

 To name G. ibericum, striatum, pratense, sylvaticum erioste 

 mon, vlassovianum, palustre, and this erianthum, is to give < 

 catalogue of beautiful hardy plants. 



Such of them as are found in our gardens are however 

 badly named, and even in books there is no little 

 regarding them, of which this is a notable example 



confusion 



September, 1842. 



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