PLATE CXXXI. 



GERANIUM LACINIATUM 



Ragged- leaved Geranium 



CLASS 



XYI. 



ORDER 



IV. 



of SuppL St^/?dm. 

 Feg. 1781. 



MONODELFHIA DECJNDRIA. 



Threads united. Ten Chives 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



iVloNOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. Fru6tus rof- 

 tratus, pcnta-coccus. 



One Pointal. Five Summits. Fruit furnlflied 



with long awns, live dry berries. 

 See Geranium GRAND I FLORUMjPLXII. Vol.1. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER* 



Geranium foliis radicalibus, ^ Integrls lacinia- 

 tifque, petiolis filiformibus; calycibus nlo- 

 nophyllis5 Staminibus quinque fertilibusj 



radicc tuberofa. 



4i 



Geranium with leaves growing from the root> 

 entire andjaggecf, foot-ftalksthread-fliaped; 

 cups one leaved; five fertile chives j root 

 tuberous. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



The 



2. The Chives and Pointal, as they ftand in the bloflbm, magnified. 



3. The fame cut open, and detached from the Pointal, magnified, 



4. The Pointal, magnified. 



Gerani 



September 



root 



Ma rch 



be afterwards planted in rich mould, and placed on a Ihelf in the hot-houfej where they will flower 

 ID May or June. From an imported plant, in the Hibbertian colleftion, our drawing was made this 



year. 



A continual harping on the fame fubjed, may perhaps appear rather tirefomej but, as almoft 



every real new fpedes of Geranium, which falls under our obfervation, feems to add a frelli proof of 



the futility of the new arrangement, we cannot forbear noticing it. This fpecies, for inftance, has 

 every other cflential generic charaSer of Monficur L'lTeritter's Pelargonium, but unfortunately the 

 fnoft effcntiah Upon an accurate examination of a number of flowers, before they had expanded, 

 (the only time when it can be truly afcertained), in no one inftance, was there more than five tips to 

 be found. Where to place it, with Erodium, or Pelargonium? 



