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Pelargonium Quinatum. Five-Fingered 

 Pelargonium., or Crane's-Bill. 



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MoNADELPHIA HePTANDRIA, 



Generic Character. 



C;/. 5-partitus : Iacinio fuprema definente in tubulum ca- 

 pillarem ne6tariferum fecus pedunculum decurrentem. Cor. c- 

 petala irregularis. Fil. 10 inasqualia : quorum 3 (raro 5) caf- 

 trata. Fmclus 5-coccus roitratus : roftra fpiralia introrfum 

 barbata. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



"LLARGONIUM quinatum; caule fruticofo angulato, foliis 

 alternis quinque-partitis : foliolis cuneatis 

 apice tridentatis, pedunculis unifloris erec- 

 tis terminalibus, calyce maximo ftellato- 

 patente. 



GERANIUM pramorfum. Bot. Repof. 150. 



• This very rare and diftinft fpecies is but of low ftature, at 

 leaft we have not yet feen it reach a foot in height. The ftalk 

 is woody at the lower part and angular ; branches few, flefhy, 

 flexuofe, with leaves growing alternate on footftdks the length 

 of the leaf, with two very fmall green fubulate ftipulae ; leaves 

 loft, kidney-fhaped, divided almoft to the footftalk into five 

 cuneate three-toothed fegments, the two outer ones, as is ufual, 

 broader than the reft, confiding as it were of two united. 

 From the very extremity of the branch grows one ereft pe- 

 duncle, jointed at the bafe, and having juft below the joint 

 generally three concave ovate braBeae. The fimilarity of the 

 peduncle and bradeae to thofe of the umbellate fpecies, leads 

 to a fufpicion that the flower may not always be folitary ; how- 



ever, 



