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GERANIUM enanthuiii. 

 Woolly-jiowered Geraitium . 



MONODELPHIA DECANDItlA. 

 Nat. ord. Geraniace^. 

 GERANIUM. Bot.Reff. 1839. foL IQ. 



G. erianthum ; pevcuiie, undique molliter pubescens, pilis patulis glandulosis, 

 foliis omnibus jietiolatis pahiiato-5 • 7-lobis, lobis trilobis iliouibeo-cune- 

 atis, laclniis incisis acutis, peduncuiis confertis florum longitiuline, caly- 

 cibus villosis petalis cuneatis basi undique barbatis brevioribus, islamentis 

 pilosiusculis, 



G. erianthum. DeCa?id, Prodr. 1. 041. 



A robust hardy perennial, of easy culture, growing from 

 one to two feet high, in any good garden soil. It flowers 

 freely during the months of June and July, and is easily 

 increased by dividing the old plant when in a state of rest, 

 or by seeds ; the seeds should be sown directly they are ripe, 

 and then they will flower the following season. 



It was raised in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, 

 from seeds received from the late Mr, Moreton Dyer, from 

 North-west America. 



Although the hardy herbaceous Geraniums are not much 

 cultivated, yet some of the species are among the handsomest 

 and best of that class ; easy to preserve, and highly orna- 

 mental to the flower beds, or to rough rocky places where 

 their somewhat formal bushy mode of growth is destroyed. 

 To name G. ibericum, striatum, pratense, sylvaticum, erioste- 

 mon, vlassovianum, palustre, and this erianthum, is to give a 

 catalogue of beautiful hardy plants. 



Such of them as are found in our gardens are however 

 badly named, and even in books there is no little confusion 

 regarding them, of which this is a notable example. 



September, 1842. u 



