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-Eropium INCARNATUM. FLEsH-CoLourep 
CRANE’S-BILL. 
- ‘Cali and Order, 
Oe Le oh. ee MonADELPHIA PenTanpara. 
Generic CharaBer, 
Cal. echt Cor. 5-petala. Nec. Squamule 5 cum filamentis” 
alternantes; et glandule mellifera, bafi ftaminum infi- « 
dentes.  Fruéfus 5-coccus, roftratus ; 3 roftra {fpiralia, intror- 
‘eee barbata. L’ Herit. Geran. 
Specific Charaéer and Syeonyeis Fi : 
! _ERODIUM incarnatum pedunculis paucifloris, foliis tripartitis 
Ys ternatifve trifidis f{cabris, caule fruticulofo. — 
L’Herit. n. 21. tab. 5. Ait. Kew. v. 2. P- 415+ 
vIUM incarnatum pedunculis bifloris, foliis tripartitis — 
trifidis glabris, pels integris, arillis glabris. ; 
Linn. Suppl. Pl. | ; 
incarnatum foliis inicifts quinquelobis punétatis a 
petiolis longiffimis, pedunculis trifloris, Cavamill, 
diff. 4. ene Vase eS e 
4 
n n the Soth number of this work we gave a figure of the = 
elargoninm tricolor, a plant very generally regarded as the. = 
oft beautiful of the genus; we now prefent our readers with és 
the reprefentation of an Erodium, which has to boaft nearly an 
_ equal fhare of admiration. ae 
This fpecies, as we learn from the Bivins Krivenfis; is a . 
“native of the Cape, and was introduced by. Mr. Masson in if 
_ the year 1787. , 
Its ufual time of Scwearinaks is July and Aug: 3; in chis point : 
it is inferior to the Pelargonium tricolor, which bloffoms oe 
‘through the fpring as well as fummer months. a 
It produces feeds but {paringly ; cuttings of the ‘stare are 
ftruck with lefs difficulty than thofe of the Pelargonium above — 
mentioned, the famé treatment is applicable to both plants, 
they muft be regarded as green-houfe plants of the more 
tender kind, which are liable to be ‘detixeyed 3 in abe win 
feafon by a  moitt ee desi Fa ie —— ag 
