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GERANIUM ARGENTEUM.  SILVER-LEAV’D 
ee CRANE’s-BILL. 
Sdlsbbbideiacibae i 
Clafs and Order. 
MoNnaApDELPHIA DEcANDRIA, 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cal. 5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala, regularis. Ned. glandule 5- 
a melfifere, bafi longiorum filamentorum adnate. Frudus 
§-coccus roftratus; roftra fimplicia nuda (nec fpiralia nec 
barbata). ; 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. 
GERANIUM argenteum pedunculis bifloris, foliis fubpeltatis 
feptempartitis trifidis tomentofo fericeis, petalis 
, _ emarginatis. Linn. Syft. Veget. ed.14. Murr. 
Fo PO Ge ape PL td. 5. D. G64. 
GERANIUM argenteum alpinum. Banh. Pin. 318. ee 
GERANIUM argenteumi montis baldi. Baub. Hy. 3 p. 474. 
This extremely rare, beautiful, and hardy. fpecies of Gera- 
nium, we obtained a few years fince of Mr. Lovpicgs, Nurfery-_ 
‘man, of Hackney, who we believe was the firft that introduced 
it from Germany. It is one of the many curious plants found — 
Botany for its choice vegetable produ@tions. os 
_ It is diftinguifhed from all our other hardy Geraniums by its 
filvery foliage; its flowers are large, and extremely delicate ; 
taken altogether, when it grows and bloffoms in perfeétion, it 
may be regarded as one of the moft defirable of the alpine tribes, 
-_ It blofloms in June and July, and with us at Brompton has 
Tipened its feeds; though in no great number; from thefe the 
plant may be raifed, as alfo by parting its roots, but the former 
is the preferable mode. 
It fucceeds beft kept in a pot of light fandy bog earth, 
taking care that it does not fuffer through want of water in 
fummer, nor from having too much in the winter; we need 
{carcely add, that fo rare a plant, growing naturally in fo pure 
an atmofphere, requires, as it deferves, more than ordinary __ 
“fare to preferve it, ie. ae 
on the fummit of Mount Baldus, celebrated in the annals of 
