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GERANIUM CRISTATUM. CRESTED-SEEDED 
CRANE’'s-BILL. 
Heokestesheses eK EEE EEE RE 
Class and Order. 
MonapeELrPHiA DEcANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—GERANIACEE. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala 5 equalia. Petala 5 equalia. Stamina 10 fer- 
tilia alterna majora. Glandule nectarifera ad basin stami- 
num majorum. Carpellorum ariste imtus glabre, demum 
elastice a basi ad axeos apicem circinnatim revolute.— 
Herbe rarissime suffrutescentes, foliis palmato-lobatis, pe- 
dunculis 1—2-floris. D ©. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Geranium cristatum; caule flaccido hispido, foliis renifor- 
mibus 7-lobis, lobis cuneiformibus trifidis laciniis tri- 
dentatis, pedunculis elongatis calycibusque hispidis, 
petalis emarginatis, fructibus rugoso-cristatis. Meyer 
Pl. Caucas. p. 208. 
Geranium cristatum. Stev. Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Mosc. v. 
A. p.50.t.5. De Cand. Prodr. ». 1. p. 643. Spreng. 
Syst. Veg. v. 3. p. 73. 
Geranium Albanum. Bieb. Fl. Taurico-Caucas. v. 2. p- 
137. 
A very pretty and showy species of GERANIUM, received 
at the Glasgow Botanic Garden from St. Petersburgh. It 
is a native of Wakari and J ucharibusch in Iberian Albania, 
where it was first detected by STEVEN ; and it has since been 
found by Dr. CHaRtes Anr. Meyer, in the province of 
Talusch, inhabiting not only the borders of the Caspian 
Sea, but growing in the mountain-districts, at an mapa! 
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