PLATE CCIV. 
GERANIUM LACINIATUM. 
Ragged-leaved Geranium. 
Var. flore purpureo, 
Purple lowered Variety. 
CLASS XVI.° ORDER Iv' - 
MONADELPHI4A DECANDRIA.  Tiireads united. Ten Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, 
- Monoeyrna. Stigmata quinque. 
{| One Pornrar. Five fummits. 
Fructus roftratus, penta-coccus, 
Fruir furnifhed with long awns; five dry 
berries. 
. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Geranium foliis radicalibus, integris laciniatif- Geranium with leaves growing from the root, 
que, petiolis filiformibus; calycibus mono- entire and jagged, footftalks thread-thaped ; 
phillis; ftaminibus quinque fertilibus 3 radice cups one-leaved; five fertile chives; root 
tuberofa; floribus purpureis, tuberous ; flowers purple. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 
1. The Empalement magnified. 
2. The Chives fpread open. 
3. The Pointal and feed-bud magnified. 
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Tuts very handfome variety, (for we cannot confider it 
was imported in 1800, from the Cape of Good Hopi 
- flowered, laft-year, in the month of 
as a fpecies,) of the Geranium laciniatum, 
by G. Hibbert Efq.; in whofe colle@tion it 
care that colleétion is preferved in fuch high 
order and perfection, and to whofe kind communicati 
he has not, a t, from every appearance, the plant, he has no doubt, 
fs uberous charaéter ; and that he did not treat 
it differently from the reft of the Geraniums which compofe this branch of that interefting family. 
