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Geranium Reichardi. Dwarf Geranium. 
Clafs and Order. 
Mon ade lpii 1 a Decandria. | 
Generic Character. I 
Monogynia. Stigmata 5. FruBus roftratus, 5-coccus. | 
Character and Synonyms. ' j| 
GERANIUM Reichardi fcapis unifloris, floribus- pentandris, I 
foliis fubreniformibus incifo-crenatis. f 
GERANIUM Reichardi fcapis unifloris, foliis plerifque ob* 
longis irilobis vel quinquelobis incifo-crenatis. 
Linn. Syjl. Vegetab. ed. Murr. 14./* 618. 
Tins fpecies of Geranium, fo flrikingly different from ail 
others at prefent cultivated in our gardens, has been known for 
leveral years to the Nutiery-men in the neighbourhood 0 
London, by the name of aiaule , a name we fhould gladly b aV ^ | 
retained, had not Profeffor Murray deferibed it in the j 
edition of Linnteus’s Syjlcma Vcgetabiliurn, under the name 0 
Reichardi , a name he was difpofed to give it in compliment to 
a F tench gentleman, who firfl difeovered it in the ifland 0 
Minorca, and introduced it into the gardens of France. 
Linnteus deferibes many of the Geraniums, as having 
five antherae, though feveral of thofe he thus deferibes have 
to our certain knowledge ten, the five lowermoft of whic 
fhedding their pollen firll, often drop off, and leave the 
filaments apparently barren: but in this fpecies (with tis ^ 
, ^ ea ^) there never are more than five, but betwixt each ftamen, 
there is a broad pointed barren filament or fquamula, fcaict/ 
to be diftinguifhed by the naked eye. 
The ufual and beft praBice is to make a green-houfe pl^ 
of this fpecies, though it has been known to remain in t ® 
open ground, during a mild winter, unhurt. 
It continues to have a fucceffion of bloIToms during tbc 
grca.eff part of the {umpier, and may be propagated eitf> cr Y 
leed or parting its roots. 
