PELARGONIUM TRICOLOR. THREE~ 
CoLourED Crane’s-BiLL. 
Cla/s and Order. 
MonabDevpHia HepTanpRiIas 
Generic Chara@er. ; 
Cal. 5-partitus: lacinia fuprema definente in tubulum capilla- 
rem, neGariferum, fecus pedunculum decurrentem. Cor, 
5-petala, irregularis. Filamenta 10, inequalia: quorum 3 
(raro 5) caltrata, Fru€tus 5-coccus, roftratus: roftra fpiralia, 
introrium barbaia. L’ Herit. Geran. 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. 
PELARGONIUM fricolor petalis. duobus fuperioribus pungtis 
: prominulis lucidis ad bafin feabris. 
_The Pelargonium tricolor, a fpecies perfeftly new, in point 
‘ef beauty is thought to eclipfe all that have hitherto been .— 
introduced to this Country ; its bloffoms are certainly the moft 
fhewy, in a colleétion of plants they are the firft to atiraé the: 
-eyé, the two uppermoft petals are of a beautiful red, having. 
their bafes nearly black, the three lowermoft are whire, hence 
its name of tricolor ; this peculiarity of colour joined to their 
form, has induced fome to fancy a fimilarity betwixt its flowers 
and thofe of the, Heartseafe: to the bloffoms of the Laihyrus 
articulates in point of colour, they bear alfo a diftant refem- 
blance. = oe 
In our eagernels to lay before the public this ftriking novelty, 
we may poflibly omit fome circumftances relative to its hiftory 
and treatment, which future experience may develope, they 
will not, however, we truft be very material; the plants which 
we have had an opportunity of feeing have fcarcely exceeded 
a foot in height, growing up with a fhrubby ftem, and expand- 
a8 widely into numerous flowering branches, unufually 
difpofed to produce flowers in a conftant fucceffion, fo that — 
during moft of the fummer the plant is loaded with a profufion — 
of bloom; thefe flowers for the moft part go off without being 
followed by any feed, and when any feed is produced, of _ 
