Geranium maculatum. 
FL Am. Sep. vol. 2. p. 448. Barton’s Collections, &e, part 1. p. 8, 45. part 2. p.1. Barton’s 
_ Prodr. Fl. Ph.p. 69. Nuttall, Gen. Am. Plants. Coxe’s Am. Disp. ed. 3d. p.343, Thatcher’s 
_ Disp. oe 224. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2d. vol.4.p.188, ‘Willd. Sp. Plant. tom. 3. part 1. 
oP 705. 
~ GERANIUM. (Tourn. V’her. Vent.) 
x. Gen. ke ed. Schreb. n. 1118. 
Cal. Sphyllus, Cor. S-petala regulatis. Nect. gandnke Stsalifere, basi Gagne filamentorum adnate. 
Arilli 5-monospermi aristati ad basin receptaculi rostrati; aristis nudis simplicibus (nec spiralibus 
nec barbatis). ; 
Nat. Syst. Juss. Gerania. Classis XIII. Ordo XIII. 
Geranicez, St. Hillaire. 
Geranium, T. L. * Pelargonium, Burm.* Geranion, Geraine. Calix 5-phyllus aut 5-partitus. Petala 5 
equalia aut in-equalia. Staminum filamenta 10, basi in urceolum aut tubum coalita, nunc omnia — 
antherifera, nunc quedam sterilia Germen modo basi 5-glandulosum, modo pedicello insidens 
fistuloso intra florem hine hianti. Fructus dehiscens in capsulas 5, ovatas aut basi acutas, 1-2- 
spermas, aristatas aristis stylo persistenti adnatis, a basi ad apicem dehiscentibus una cum capsu- 
"lis ; corculum lobis a medio reflexis. Herbz aut suffrutices ; folia alterna, aut opposita; pedun- . 
culi forum 1-2-flori aut multiflori. Corolla in Europzis speciebus regularis admittit calicem 
5-phyllum aut 5-partitum, germen basi 5-glandulosum, glandulas petalis alternas, caulem herba- 
ceum, folia sepius opposita & pedunculos axillares, in 1-2-floris stamina omnia fertilia & capsulas 
ovatas aristis supra revolutis, in multifioris stamina 5 sterilia & capsulas basi acutas astis tortib- 
bus. Corolla in Africanis irregularis quasi papilionacea, petalis 2 superioribus erecto-reflexis, 
intra calicem 5-partitum non polyphyllum, profert germen non basi glandulosum, staminum 
filamenta 7 aut pauciora antherifera cxteraque sterilia, capsulas basi acutas aristis tortilibus 
__ barbatis, pedicellum floris hinc fistuloso-cavum intra petala & extra stamina apertum, caulem sxepe 
_Suffratescentem, folia plerumque alterna, pedunculos sepius multifloros & foliis oppositos. Nu- 
a merosissimas D. Cavanilles in accurata Monographia nitidis expressas iconibus recensuit species 
generis in posterum dividendi, Africanis ad Pelargonium Burmanni rejectis. Ex ipso congener 
“Crick: L. eee: :siaie a _ Sasa an idem posthae restituendum ? ? 
~ ey Juss. Gen. Plant. ed. 1789. p- 268. 
ens onP sis Cindi to ee howe aioe 
Class Monadelphia. Ordo. Decandria. Lin. Oy = 
