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GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM. 
x “~~ Largeft flowered Crane’ s- bill. 
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CLASS XVI. 
ORDER IL 
MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. . 
Caryx. Perianthium pentaphyllum: foliolis 
* ovatis, acutis, concavis, perfiftentibus. 
Corotra. Petala quinque, obcordata, feu 
ovata, patentia, magna. 
Sramrya. Filamenta decem, fubulata, corolla 
breviora, Anthera oblonge, verfatiles. 
Pistittum. Germen quinquangulare, roftra- 
tum. Stylus fubulatus, ftaminibus longior, 
perfiftens. Stigmata quinque, reflexa. 
Pexicarrium nullum,  Fruétus pentacoccus, 
roftratus. 
Semina folitaria, reniformia, fepe arillata; 
i ngiflima, demum fpirali. 
. : SPECIFIC 
Geranium, calycibus monophyllis, foliis quin- 
~que-lobis, glabris, dentatis; floribus am- 
pliffimis, fub-albidis. 
Empatement. Cup five leaves: leaves egg- 
fhaped, fharp pointed, concaye, and pert- 
manent. 
Bossom. Five petals, inverfely heart-fhaped, 
or egg fhaped, fpreading, and large. 
Cuives. Ten threads, awl-fhaped and fhorter 
than the bloffom. Tips oblong, eafily turn- 
ed round. 
Pointat. Seed-bud five-angled, and beaked. 
Shaft awl-fhaped, longer than the chives 
and remaining. Five reflexed fummits. 
SEED-vessEL none. Fruit five dry berfies, 
beaked. “ 
Szeps, folitary, kidney-fhaped, often furnifhed 
with a dry hufky coat, and a very long 
- awn, which become fpiral. 
CHARACTER. 
Geranium, empalements of one leaf; leaves five- 
ed, fmooth, and toothed; the flowers 
very large, nearly white. 
: REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Empalement cut open, to fhew its tubular ftru@ture. 
2. The Chives, and Pointal, as placed in the flower, (natural fize.) 
3. The Shaft, Summits, and Seed-bud, (magnified.) 
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Or all the {pecies of this numerous tribe, introduced to us, 
fingularly pre-eminent; whether for delica 
finithed drawing would conve 
valuable colleétion of G. 
to the Royal’Gardens at Kew, by Mr. F. Maffon. 
fhould be kept in a window of the ftove, 
that feafon. It flowers in July, 
ture of rotten dung, and loam; 
To diffent from moft of the 
confidered, 
from the Cape of Good Hope, this flands 
acy of foliage, or beauty of flower, of which, the moft 
hvey but a faint idea. The figure before us, was taken from a plant in the 
Hibbert, Efq. Clapham; from whom we underftand, that it was fent in 1794 
To keep this plant in a flourifhing condition, it 
in winter, as the heat of a greenhoufe is fcarce fufficient at 
or Auguft, and requires the foil generally ufed for Geraniums, a mix- 
being eafily propagated by cuttings. 
late publications on the feience of Botarfy, may feem prefuming; yet, 
that we take Linneus for our fole guide, where that great mafter has 
a charatter, to a tribe of plant . 
his in{pe@tion ; from his didates, ibe of plants, which undoubtedly, came clearly under 
throughout all its numerous fpecies ‘ 
ours muft emanate, although his authority may be queftioned by 
been found, to difunite a Genus, which nature has fo palpabty diftin- 
he certainly, who had minutely examined fo many, 
ied them; though nature had apparently fo done. We 
* moment to create two new Genera on, Erodium and Pelargo- 
pret. — us for ranking one of his Pelargoniums under the old ftandard. 
ten perfeét Chives. Monf. LiHeritier and 
