. : PLATE CXCIIL. 
- GERANIUM LINEARE. 
Linear-petalled Geranium. 
CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. 
_ MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, 
_ Mowoeyna. Stigmata quinque. One Porinrat. Five Summits. 
_ Fructus roftratus, 5-coccus. Fruit furnifhed with long awns; five dry 
erries. 
See Geranium GranpiFroruM, PI. XII.Vol. I. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Geranium foliis lanceolatis, obtufis, fubfinu- GERANIUM with leaves lance-fhaped, obtufe, 
atis; petalis fubsequalibus, linearibus; flo- and a little fcolloped at the edges; petals 
.Tibus pentandris; radice tuberofa. nearly equal, linear; flowers with five fer- 
tile chives; root tuberous. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 
1. The Empalement cut open, to thew its hollow ftru@ture. 
2. The Chives and Pointal natural fize. 
3. The Chives fpread open, magnified. 
4. The Pointal, magnified, 
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‘Tus is another of thofe curious tuberous Geraniums, which have been introduced, to this country, 
by Mr. Niven; who was fent to the Cape of Good Hope by G. Hibbert, Efq. for the fole purpofe of 
_ enriching his Gardens and Herbarium, (now, we prefume, the firft in Europe) with the vegetable pro- 
___ ~-duétions of that country. It has no apparent difference, in habit, to require any other treatment than 
__ ‘has been mentioned in the former part of this work, as neceflary to the reft of its congeners. Our 
_ drawing was taken, from the Clapham Colleétion, in July 1801; the roots having been -received the 
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