C 579 1 

 Pelargonium Pinnatum. Pinnated 

 Crane's-Bill. 



Oafs and Order. 



MONADELPHIA HePTANDRIA. 



Generic Charatler. 



Cal. 5-partitis : lacinia fuprema definente in tubulum capil- 

 Iarem, ne&ariferum, fecus pedunCulum decurrentem. Cor. 

 5-petala irregularis. Filam. 10 inaequalia, quorum 3 (raro 5) 

 caftrata. FrucJ. 5-coccus, roftratus : rojira fpiralia introrfum 

 barbata. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



PELARGONIUM pinnatum ,• acaule, umbella fubcompofita, 

 foliis pinnatis : foliolis fubrotundo-ovatis 

 indivifis utrinque hirfutis. L'Herit. No. 14. 

 Ait. Hort. Keiv. 2. 417. L'Herit. Geranial, 

 t. 8. 



GERANIUM pinnatum. Sp. PL ed. 1. p. 677. 



GERANIUM protificum (y.) pinnatum. Sp. Ft. ed. 2. p. 950. 



GERANIUM aftragalifolium. Cavan. Dijf. 4. p. 257. n. 377. 

 t. 104. f. 2. a Commehni pr<tlud. mutuata. 

 J acq. ic. V. 2. /. 93. 



GERANIUM africanum aftragalifolio. Commel. pral. 53. /. 3. 



Root tuberous. Leaves radical, from fix inches to a foot 

 and half in length, pinnated, hairy, hairs of a filvery hue, co- 

 vering the mid-rib and both fides of the leaf; leaflets varying 

 extremely in form and manner of growth, numerous irregularly 

 fhernate, ovate, and obtufe, or ovate-lanceolate, moftly ftand- 

 ln g on footftalks, fometimes feflile, the terminating one ufually 

 lar geft ; fometimes from the bafe of one of the leaflets fprings 

 a fmall leaf, and fometimes they grow as it were four together ; 

 | n deed it is impoffible to defcribe all their variations. Flower- 

 ln gftem 6—12 inches and taller, round, hairy, a little thickened 



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