PLATE CLVIIL 
GERANIUM ECHINATUM. “«foreraim 
Prickly fialked Geranium.  Red-purple lowered Var. 
C LASS AVI. ORDER Iv. . 
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. . Threads united. Ten Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
One Porntar. Five Summits, Fruit furnifhed 
: with long awns, five dry berries. 
See Geranium GRANDIFLORUM. Pl. XII. Vol. 1. 
Monocyna. Stigmata 5. Fruétus roftratus, 
penta-coccus, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Geranium foliis fericeis, cordatis, inequaliter Geranium with filky heart-fhaped leaves, une-' 
entatis; caule f{pinofo, fubcarnofo, fpinis —qually toothed; ftem fpiny, rather flethy, 
retrofractis; floribus hexandris, rubro-pur- {pines turned downwards 3 flowers with fix 
pureis; calycibus pilofis, fertile tips and red-purple; cups hairy. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 
The Empalement. 
An upper Petal of the Bloffom. ; 
An under Petal of the Bloffiom, _ 
. The Chives and Pointal, 
. The Chives {pread open. 
6. The Pointal, magnified. 
cf ee 
Tuts fine variety of the Prickly-ftalked Geranium, was introduced, at the fame time with the white 
variety, by Mr. Francis Mafton, to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1795. It isa tender plant,. 
and requires the heat of the hot-houfe, through the winter months to preferve it, being a native of 
that part of Africa near the Namaqua land, which is in moft parts a barren, arid fand, extremely 
hot and parched, experiencing little change through the whole year. The propagation is either pro- 
duced by cuttings, or from the roots, which are tuberous, in moft inftances, if the plant is kept in 
light fandy peat earth. The drawing was made, in March this year, at the N urfery of Mr.J. Colville, 
King’s Road, Chelfea, 
