MONADELPHTA. J5 



brought to England in the year 1/74. It is a green- 

 house shrub, of slow growth, and seldom exceeds three 

 feet in height, and, when of a sufficient age, produces 

 flowers and berries through most of the year. 



ORDER 5. 



GERANIUM PYRENAICUM, Mountain- p^^AN- 

 crane s-b ill. From the botanical name of this plant, jDRIa. 

 it would seem to imply, that it was peculiarly a native Ten sumiua 

 of the Pyrenees, whereas it is found in waste ground, 

 and on the borders of fields, in various parts of Europe, 

 common about London, as at Chelsea, Hammersmith, 

 &:c. The intricacy of this tribe of plants caused Curtis 

 to confound the Geranium molle with this species in 

 his Flora Londinensis . It blossoms in July. 



Of this Order Linnaeus put the numerous Genus 

 Geranium, but since his time, tliis tribe of plants has 

 been divided by M. L'Heritier,? into three Genera, 



was appointed to manage also the pleasure and kitchen gardens. 

 In 1786 he published his " Hortus Kewensis." Hedied in 1753. 

 g Charles Louis L'Brut^le de Heritier was an eminent 

 French botanist brn in Paris 1/45. He enjoyed many places 

 in the French government, but devoted himself principally to 

 botanical pursuits. In 1786, Dombey having brought from 

 Peru and Chili an inestimable collection of plants, L'Heritier 

 undertook to publish a description of them, which was exe- 

 cuted at London, under the title of the Flora of Peru. On his 



