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GERANIUM PUNCTATUM. 
Dotted-flowered Geranium. 
CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. Suppl. Syftem. Veget. 1781. 
MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. ‘Ten Chives. 
. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Monoerna. Stigmata 5. Fruétus roftratus, 
One Pointat. Five fummits. Fruit furnithed 
5-coccus i 
with long awns, five dry berries. 
See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM, Plate XII, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Geranium foliis radicalibus; floribus umbellatis, Geranium with leaves growing from the root; 
diandris; petalis duobus fuperioribus punc- flowers grow in umbels, two fertile chives; 
tatis; ftigmata quatuor. the two upper petals being dotted; fum- 
mits four. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, The Empalement cut open, with the Chives and Pointal left on, (natural fize). 
2. The Threads cut open, to thew their number, and the fituation of the two fertile ones, 
“ (magnified). 
3. The Pointal, (magnified). ' 
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ave thought proper to extenuate in the prefent inftance; 
for fhould we follow Monf. L'Heritier, (as moft of the modern correétors of Linnzus have done,) a 
~ hew genus muft inevitably be formed for this plant. . Upon a clofe examination of the flowers, from 
a dozen different plants, invariably, only feven threads were found; two only with tips, and thofe 
placed immediately behind the fhaft, whofe fummits were but four. This Geranium is rather tender, 
__and requires a dry-ftove heat to make it flower, which it will readily do with fuch affiftance, in-April; 
