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Geranium Angulatum. Angular- 

 Stalked Crane's-Bill. 



Clafs and Order, 



MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Generic Chamber. 



Cat. 5-phylIus. Cor. 5-petala, regularis. Nebl. glandulse 5, 

 melliferae, bafi longiorum filamentorum adnatae. Fruclus 

 5-coccus, roftratus : roftra fimplicia, nuda, (nee fpiralia nee 

 barbata). 



Specific Characler and Synonyms 



GERANIUM angulatum foliis radicalibus lubefptempartitis 

 incifis hirfutis, caule ere&o fubangulato, 

 petalis venofis. 



Having cultivated the Geranium here figured for a fenes 

 of years, we are perfectly fatisfied of its being a fpecies 

 altogether diftinct from any of the hardy and more orna- 

 mental plants of that genus ufually cultivated in our gar- 

 dens. 



It is obvioufly diftinguifhed by two characters, the angu- 

 lar appearance of its (talk (whence our name of angulatum) 

 and its flenVcoloured bloffbms, marked with veins of a deeper 

 red. 



In fize it {lands between -pratenfe and aconitifoliuni, in its 

 bloffoms it has fome affinity to ftriatum and lancajlrienfc, biK 

 the veins are not (b ftrongly marked as in the former, and it 

 differs from the latter in having an upright {talk. 



It ufually flowers in May, and frequency again in autumn; 

 is a hardy perennial, and eafily increafed either by feeds or 

 parting its roots. 



Of what country it is a native, or when it was firft intro- 

 duced, we have yet to learn ; we firft obferved it in a nui- 

 fery near town, where it was regarded as a very differen 

 igecies. 



