PLATE XXVIII. 
GERANIUM ELEGANS. 
Round-leaved Geranium. 
CLASS XVI. ORDER II. 
MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Monoeyrna. Stigmata 5. Fruétus roftratus, One Poinrat. Five Summits, Fruit furnithed 
S-coccus. with long awns, 5 dry berries. 
See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM, Plate XI. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Geranium pedunculis multifloris; calycibus mo- Geranium, the fruit-ftalks fapporting many flow- 
nophyllis, foliis orbiculatis, ferratis rigidis, ers; cups of one leaf; the leaves 
petiolis longiffimis; caule herbaceo, fawed, and harfh, with very long foot-ftalks; 
ftem herbaceous. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Empalement cut open, to fhew its tubular fhape to its bafe. 
2. The Chives, and Pointal, natural fize. 
3. The Pointal, magnified. 
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Tats truly elegant {pecies of Geranium was introduced to us from the Cape of Good Hope; in the 
B08 17053 being raifed from feeds, received from thence, by Mefirs. Lee and Kennedy, in whole : 
collection it flowered for the firft time this year, about the latter end of May, and from which {peci- 
er “7 pal was taken. It is one of thofe that have in general feven fertile tips, and, therefore, 
a : “ey ‘ — = LHeritier’s genus Pelargonium, by thofe who follow his new *, eds 
which aie .. ne . sate only a common greenhoufe for its proteCtion, where wo 
beft in rich earth, eit mode of propagating it, as it produces but very few branches; 
