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PLATE CLIL 
GERANIUM SPATHUL ATUM. 
Spatula-leaved Geranium. 
CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. o Suppl. Syst. 
Veg. 1781. 
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
One Pointal. Five summits. Fruit furnifhed 
with long awns, five dry berries, 
- See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM, Pl. XII. Vol. I. 
--—— Moxxoeyna. Stigmata quinque. Fruétus rof- 
tratus, penta-coccus. 
a : _ SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Genanrum foliis integerrimis, fpathulatis, gla- Geranium with quite entire leaves, fpatula- 
bris, obtufis, radicalibus; calycibus mono- fhaped, fmooth, blunt, and growing from 
phyllis; ftaminibus quinque fertilibus; ra- the root; cups one-leaved; five fertile 
dice tuberofa. chives; root tuberous. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Empalement cut open, to fhew its hollow ftructure: 
2, The Chives and Pointal natural fize. 
3. The Chives fpread open, to fhew the number and fituation of the fertile ones, : 
which are alternate. 
4. The Pointal magnified. 
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Tue greater number of Geraniums which have been introduced of late, are of the tuberous herba- 
ceous kind; drawings of 14 we have, independent of thofe already figured; conftituting a diftin- 
guifhed, and diftin& natural branch of this extenfive family. For the moft part, they have only five 
_ fertile chives with tubular empalements, fome only two, and others feven, with the footftalk of the 
= cick up to the bottom of the cup. This fpecies is as yet, we believe, only in the Hibbertian 
he Clapham, where our drawing was taken in April this year. The roots had been received 
in the autumn of 1800 from the Cape. It appears to require the fame management as G, punctatum, 
and like it, may be increafed by the root. 
