NATURAL HISTOEY OF PLANTS. 



XXXVI. GERANIACEiE. 



I. BIEBERSTEINIA SEEIES. 



We shall not commeucc the study of this fiimily with the 

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



Gti-anitim R.bettianum. 



Fie;. 1. Florifcrous branch. 



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

 Biebersteinm^ (flg. 2-7). We shall then first analyse the flowers 

 which are regular and hermaphrodite, with convex receptacle. This 



> Steph. in Mèm. Soe. Kat. Mosc.i. 89, t. 9.— (in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 3, vi. 137).— B. H. Gen. 

 DC. Frodr. i. 101. — A. Juss. in Mém. Mus. xii. 271, n. 1.— Schnizl. Iciiiiivjr. xii. t. 2.33. — H. 

 458. — Endl. Gen. n. 6044. — Lindl. Veg. Kingd. Bn. in Adansonia, x. 317. 

 471. — Jau]î. et Spach, Consp. Geii. Bieberstcinia 



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