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NATUKAL HISTOKY OF PLANTS. 



XXXVI. GERANIACE.E. 



I. BIEBERSTEINIA SEEIES. 



We shall not commence the study of this family with the 

 Geraniums although it owes its name to them ; fur they have not 



Geranium Rohertiatnim. 



Fip;. 1. Floriferous brnnch. 



indeponrlcnt carpels, and the type in which this disposition exists is 

 BichcvHteinhi^ (fig. 2-7). We shall then first analyse the flowers 

 which are regular and hermaphrodite, with convex receptacle. This 



' Stepu. in -Wnj. Hoc. Xat. Mo.ic. i. 89, t. 9. — 

 DC. rroilr. i. 707. — A. Juss. in Mem. Mtis. xii. 

 458.— Endl. Gen. n. 6014.— LixM. Tcy. Kiiigd. 

 471.— Jaiii. ct SpACH, Coiisp. Gen. Bieborstoinia 



vol,. V. 



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(in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, vi. 137).— B. H. Gen. 

 271, n. 1.— ScHNizL. Iconogi: xii. t. 253.— H. 

 Bn, in Adansonia, x. 317. 



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