PLATE CL. 
GERANIUM PREMORSUM. 
Bitten-leaved- Geranium. 
eemiainiaiienieen came 
CLASS 
— ORDER IV. ¢¥ Fae over Syst. 
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Pipbnsts united. ‘Ten Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Monoeyrna. Stigmata quinque. Fructus rof- One Pointal. 
tratus, penta-coccus, 
Five summits. Fruit farnifhed 
with long awns, five dry berries. 
See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM, P], XII. Vol, I. 
ee : SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Geranium foliis incifo-lobatis, reniformibus ; 
lobis cuneiformibus, pramorfis; 
aR Cpe 3 caule flexuoto, 
fubcarnos 
Geranium with leaves deeply cut into lobes and 
floribus kidney-fhaped; lobes wedge- fhaped, and 
bitten at the ends; flowers generally foli- 
tary, with feven fertile tips; ftem grows 
zig-zag, rather flefhy. 
re 
» REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
- The Empalement cut a 
; The Chives and Pointa 
to fhew its tubular ftruQure. 
3. The Chives fpread me 
4. The Pointal and Seed. bud. 
I 
Tue Geranium premorfum offers a mott 
is without doubt a true fpecies. It is a 
' J. Colville of the King’s Road, Chelfea; 
that he keeps it in rich dungy earth, wid 
of a dry ftove in the winter months, 
native of the Cape of Good Hope, 
» by Captain Quarrel; 
beautiful addition to this already very extenfive genus, but 
and was introduced to us, 
3 brought in feed, and communicated to Mr, 
who informs us, that it flowers from March, till N. ovember, 
that it is raifed, pretty freely, by cuttings; requiring the heat 
Our figure was made at the nurfery, Chelf = 
ning of March this year. Ty, Cnellea, about the begin 
