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GERANIUM ALBIFLORUM. WHITE-FLOWERED 
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Class and Order. 
MonaDELPHIA DEcANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—GeraniAcez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala 5 equalia. Pet. 5 equalia. Stam. 10 fertilia 
alterna majora. Glandule nectarifere ad basin stam. ma- 
jorum. Carpellorum ariste intus glabre, demum elastice, 
a basi ad axios apicem circinnatim revolute.— Herbe 
rarissime suffrutescentes, foliis palmato-lobatis, pedunculis 
1—2-floris. De Cand. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Geranium * albiflorum ; caule terete erecto dichotomo in- 
ferne glabro superne glanduloso-piloso, foliis profunde 
5-partitis, laciniis ovato-acuminatis inciso-subpinnati- 
fidis subpilosis, radicalibus longe petiolatis superio- 
ribus oppositis breve petiolatis 3-partitis magis acu- 
minatis, calycibus glanduloso-pilosis, petalis integris 
(albis) intus filamentisque basi hirsutis. 
Geranium albiflorum. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 1. p. 116. 
t.40. Graham im Ed. N. Phil. Journ. June, 1831. 
Descr. This is a perennial plant, with herbaceous, 
erect stems, a foot and a half or two feet high, rounded, 
simple and glabrous below, upwards dichotomously branch- 
ed and downy. Leaves almost entirely glabrous, the lower 
ones upon very long stalks, palmatedly five-partite, the 
lobes ovato-acuminate, cut and laciniated in a pinnatifid 
manner : 
* From ytpavs a crane ; whose beak the seed-yessel somewhat resembles. — 
