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Geranium Lanceolatum. Spear-Leaved 
Geranium. 
Clafs and Order . 
Monadelphia Dfxandria. 
Generic Character. 
Moncgyna. Stigmata 5. Fruclus roftratus 5*coccus. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
GERANIUM glaucum calycibus monophyllis, foliis lanceola- 
tis integerrimis glaucis, caule ereCto fuffruticofo. 
Linn. Syfi. Vegetab. p. 614. Sapp. Pl. p. 306. 
This elegant and very lingular fpecies of Geranium appears 
to have been firfl cultivated in this country ; its introduction 
was attended with circumftances rather unufual. Mr. Lee, 
Nurferyman of the Vineyard, Hammerfmith, in looking over 
fome dried fpecimens in the PofTeflion of Sir Joseph Banks, 
which he had recently received from the Cape of Good Hope, 
was ftruck with the lingular appearance of this Geranium, no 
fpecies having before been feen in this country with fpear- 
Ihaped leaves ; on examining the fpecimens attentively, he per- 
ceived a few ripe feeds in one of them, thofe he folicited, and 
obtained ; and to his fuccels in making them vegetate, we are 
indebted for the prefent fpecies*. 
The lhape of the leaf readily fuggelled the name of lanceo- 
latum, an epithet by which it has been generally diftinguifhed 
in this country, and which, from its extreme fitnefs, we have 
continued, notwithftanding young Profeffor Linnaus has 
given it that of glaucum, though, at the fame time, his illuftrious 
father had diftinguifhed another fpecies by the fynonymous term 
of glaucophyllum. 
This fpecies rarely ripens its feeds with us, and is therefore 
to be raifed from cuttings, which however are not very free 
to ftrike. 
It has been ufual to keep it in the (love, but we have found 
by experience, that it fucceeds much better in a common green- 
houfe, in which it will flower during the whole of the fummer. 
Small young plants of this, as well as moft other Geraniums, 
make the bell appearance, and are therefore to be frequently 
obtained by cuttings. 
