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Pelargonium Cordifolium. Heart* 

 Leaved Geranium. 



Clafs and Order. 



MoNADELPHIA HEPTANDRIA, 



Generic Charatler. 



Col. 5-partitus : lacinia fuprema, definente in tubulum capil- 

 larem, neclariferum, fecus pedunculum decurrentem. Cor, 

 5-petala, irregularis. Filam. 10 insequalia : quorum 3 

 (raro 5) caftrata. Frutlus 5-coccus, roftratus : roftra fpi- 

 ralia introrfum barbata. 



• Specific Charatler and Synonyms, 



PELARGONIUM cordatum umbellis multifloris, foliis cor- 

 datis acutis dentatis, petalis inferis line- 

 aribus acutis. Ait, Hort. Kew. p. 4 2 7' 



GERANIUM cordifolium. Cavan. Difs. p. 240. t. 117-/- 3* 



Our readers are here prefented with the figure of another 

 Geranium of modern introduction, not enumerated by LiN- 

 n.t.us or Miller, and which in point of beauty, duration 

 of flowering, and facility of culture, is equal to moft. 



It was introduced to the Royal Garden at Kew, from the 

 Cape, by Mr. Masson, in 1774. 



There are feveral varieties of it, but the one here figure^ 

 is the moft beautiful. 



It (hikes readily from cuttings, by which it is ufually P r °" 

 pagated. 



Requires the fame treatment as the more common Ger 

 mums; and flowers from March to July. 



