GARDEN BOTANY. 



of Good Hope, have the flowers a little irregular, with a hollow tube extending 

 from the base of one of the sepals some way down one side of the peduncle, 

 some of the 10 filaments without anthers; and so, although called Geraniums, 

 belong to the genus 



1. Pelargonium. There are a great many varieties and hybrids in cultiva- 

 tion. Most of the common sorts come from the following botanical species ; 

 but some of them are much mixed. 



* Leaves peltate, fleshy: stems trailing. 



P. peltatum, IVY-LEAVED P. Smooth or smoothish, the 5-angled 5-lobed 

 leaves fixed near the middle ; the flowers pink. 



# * Leaves rounded or round-cordate, crenate, toothed, or moderately lobed. 



P. ZOnale, HORSE-SHOE P. Shrubby, with thick and juicy branches; 

 the roundish-cordate leaves marked on the upper face with a dark semicircle ; 

 flowers many in a close umbel ; petals narrow, scarlet, red, or sometimes 

 white. 



P. in'quinans, STAINING or SCARLET P. Resembling the foregoing, 

 but velvety-pubescent and clammy, the leaves without the horse-shoe mark ; 

 petals broadly obovate, intense scarlet, also with pale varieties. 



P. CUCUllatum, COWLED P. Shrubby, not juicy, softly villous ; leaves 

 round-reniform and cupped ; umbels panicled ; flowers rather large, pink- 

 purple. 



P. cordatum, HEART-LEAVED P. Like the last, or smoother, with open 

 cordate-ovate leaves. 



P. angulosum, MAPLE-LEAVED P. Shrubby, harsh-hairy; the leaves 

 not cordate at the base, sharply-toothed, angled, and more or less lobed; 

 flowers much like the two last, pink-purple, with dark streaks. 



P. capitatum, ROSE-SCENTED P. Scarcely shrubby, spreading, softly 

 hairy, with the rose-scented leaves round -cordate and moderately lobed, the 

 lobes short and broad ; peduncle bearing many sessile flowers in a head ; 

 petals short, rose-purple. 



P. odoratissimum, NUTMEG-SCENTED P. Low, with herbaceous and 

 weak branches, and soft-velvety round and crenate leaves, which are sweetly 

 aromatic ; the flowers white and insignificant. 



* * * Leaves conspicuously lobed, cleft, or compound. 



P. grandiflorum, GREAT-FLOWERED P. Shrubby, smooth and glau- 

 cous ; leaves palmately 5 - 7-cleft ; peduncles bearing about 3 large flowers, 

 with white petals, the 2 upper larger and elegantly veined, sometimes varie- 

 gated with pink or rose-color. 



P. tricolor, THREE-COLORED P. Low, rather shrubby ; the long- 

 petioled small leaves silky-hoary, oblong, incised, and 3-lobed or pinnatifid ; 

 peduncles bearing 2 or 3 showy flowers ; the three lower petals white, the two 

 upper crimson, with a dark spot at their base. 



P. exstipulalum, PENNY-ROYAL P. Low, rather shrubby, with t. 

 leaves small, velvety, roundish-ovate, truncate at the base, 3-lobed, also 

 incised, with the scent of Penny-Royal or Bergamot ; stipules obsolete; flow- 

 ers few, small, and white. 



P. quercifolium, OAK-LEAVED P. Shrubby, hairy and glandular ; 

 leaves deeply sinuate-pinnatifid, with a cordate base" and wavy-toothed blunt 

 lobes, often spotted, strong-scented ; flowers rather lew, purplish. 



P. grave'olens. Leaves more deeply cleft into 5 or 7 obtuse lobes, more 

 hairy, and the scent balsamic ; peduncles many-flowered ; otherwise resem 

 bling the last. 



P. Ra'dula, ROUGH P. Very rough and hairy with short and rigid 

 bristles ; the balsamic or mint-scented leaves palmately parted, and the divis- 



