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we have feen a few inftances, ‘there is generally one perfeé and 
four abortive, frequently all of them fail; the bloffoms vary 
in the number of their ftamina, four are moft ufually apparent, 
_ three faperior, and that very conftantly, one inferior and often 
two, we have never obferved feven, -the proper number of 
fertile ftamina in a Pelargonium: the. whole plant is covered 
with fhort white hairs which give to the foliage a fomewhat ° 
filvery hue. z 
Inftances have occurred in which one or more of the whit 
petals have had a ftripe of red in them, and we have obferved 
_ that the dark colour at the bafe of the uppermoft petals is, in a 
certain degree, foluble in water, for on the plants being watered 
the white petals have here and there become ftained by the 
colouring matter proceeding from it, and which, in a diluted 
flate, is of a purplifh tint’: as the flowers decay, this apparently 
black part, diftinguifhed by the roughnefs of its furface, arifing 
from prominent lucid points, and which effentially diftinguifh 
the {pecies, is fometimes perforated with numerous {mall holes, 
_ Mr. Masson, who is employed to colleé& plants at the Cape, 
for the Royal Garden at Kew, and in which employment he fo 
honourably acquits himfelf, as the Hortus Kewenfis bears ample - 
teftimony, fent hither feeds of this Pelargonium, which flow- 
‘ered in that matchlefs colleGtion in the year 1792; a few plants 
of it have alfo been raifed from Cape feeds, by Mr. WiLtiams, - 
Nurferyman, at Hammerfmith, fome of which flowered this 
{pring with Mr. Corvitt, Nurferyman, Kings-Road. : 
It muft be feveral years before the lovers of plants can be 
“generally gratified with the poffeffion of this plant, moft of its. 
branches running out fpeedily into flowering ftalks, form few 
proper for cuttings, which are ftruck with difficulty, and per- 
feét feeds are fparingly produced. We ss 
It appears to. be equally hardy as moft others of the fame 
tribe, and-to require a {imilar treatment, 
