e. CEASS XVI. ORDER i? 
DELPHIA DECANDRIA. “Threads united. Dep Chae 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Stigmata 5. Fruétus roftratus, One Pornrar. Summits five. Fruit furnifhed 
mt eS = with long awns, five dry berries. 
See Geranium GranpiFrLorum, Plate XII. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
cm, poents caulis fruti- Geranium with flefhy winged leaves; 
3 petalis linearibus fhrubby, branched and brittle; pike 
fruit-ftalks upright. 
SennEnInEnnienens <caneeeeeenenel 
“REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
+ The Bs levicnt 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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aed can sl igi fertile tips, and thus comes under Linnzeus’s firft arrange 
. : ium. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope; and was 
by Metin. Ex int Kenedy in the year 1792. This plant feldom grows more than a foot 
| the months of July, Auguft, and September, it is covered with bloffoms, 
= with red, ftanding nearly upright. It is rather a tender Eb 
ary Rove, tees to preferve it in winter, being very fubjeét to damp in the leaves; 
ae atte, and thrives beft in rich mould. 
