152 = | Geranium maculatuin. 
dentatis ; radicalia longé petiolata; caulinia nonnunquam sessilia. Stipule membranacez. Pe- 
dunculi elongati biftores. Flores magni purpureo-rosei petalis obovatis non emarginatis. Calices 
' sparsé pilosi margine ciliati et abrupté aristati. Capsule hirsute, pilis patentibus. Habitat in 
y sf copeecaes et sepibus; etiam inter = etad margines agrorum; florens Junio et Julio. 
_ Barton’s Fl. Phil. MS. 
Tue generic term Geranium, is derived from the Greek word 
vig, @ crane, from the fancied resemblance of its permanent style, 
to a crane’s bill. The old genus contained a very extensive as- 
semblage of plants. L’Heritier divided it into three different ge- 
nera, viz. Erodium, Pelargonium, and. Geranium, the latter charac- 
terised by the marks, mentioned at the head of this article, under | 
the generic character. 3 
Of the North American species of the genus, the maculatum 
is much the most common. This extremely pretty plant is much 
more worthy of cultivation than many of the exotic species of the 
same genus, so universally nurtured in our green-houses. The 
root is perennial, irregularly gibbous, and horizontal; and commonly 
. of the size represented in the plate. It is brownish, mottled with 
green externally, and greenish-white within, becoming brittle or 
friable upon siccation ; and then easily pulverisable in the mortar, 
From the root arise generally one stem and from four to eight root- 
leaves, supported by petioles from eight to ten inches in length. 
The stem is erect, terete ; and this, as well as its divisions and pedun- 
eles, is of a sage-green, colour, and. thickly beset with reflexed 
