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GERANILJM tuberosum ; var. ramosum. 

 Tuberous Geraniuvi, branched variety. 



DECANDRIA PEfiTAGYVlA. 



Nat. ord. Geraniace^. 

 GERANIUM. Linnceus. 



G. tuberosum ; radice subglobosa, caule simplici erecto nudo v. medio diphyllo, 

 foliis 5-7-partitis : lobis pinnatifidis ; laciniis passim incisis, cyma terminali 

 patenti trichotoma glanduloso-pilosa, petalis emarginatis, staminibus liberis : 

 filamentis recurvis pilosis alternis majoribus. Flora Grceca, t. 659. cum 

 synonymis. 



Var. ramosum ; caule folioso ramoso, pedunculis sub-geminis saepius axillaribus. 



This curious Geranium is a hardy herbaceous plant, with 

 fleshy roots the size of a walnut. It is met with in the 

 kingdom of Naples, which seems its most western limit, and 

 it occurs as far to the eastward as the Euphrates, where it 

 was met with in abundance by Col. Chesney. In the jfields 

 of Greece and some of the islands of the Archipelago it is 

 common, and it occurs to the north as far as the Crimea. 



Usually its stem is quite simple, and produces two or 

 three radical leaves, above which it rises to the height of five 

 or six inches, where it forms a pair of opposite leaves, from 

 between which rises the cyme of purple flowers. Such is 

 the state of the plant in my specimens from Smyrna, the 

 Volga, Naples, and the Euphrates ; so I find it in others 

 dried many years ago in the Cambridge Botanic Garden, 

 and in Sibthorp's Greek Herbarium, and it is so described 

 by all systematic Botanists. The plant now figured, collected 

 near Potenza by the Hon. W. F. Strangways, is however 

 quite different, branching from its very base like other 



