PLATE CCIX. 
GERANIUM MELANANTHUM. 
Black-flowered Geranium. 
, CLASS XVE ORDER IV. 
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mownoeyrna. Stigmata quinque. Frudus rof- | One Pointar, Five Summits. Fruit furnifhed 
tratus, penta-coccus with long awns, five dry berries. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Geranium foliis lobatis integrifque, hifpidis, ob- Geranium with lobed, and entire leaves, hair 
tufis ; calycibus monophyllis, laciniis line- d obtufe; cups one leaved, fegments li- 
aribus; floribus nigricantibus, dioicis; ra- near; flowers blackith, with the chives and 
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dice tuberofa. pointals diftin& ; root tuberous. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. ~ 
The Empalement, natural fize, the tube cut open. 
The Chives of a male bloffom, natural fize. 
The fame, cut open and magnified. 
The abortive Pointal of a male bloffom, natural fize. 
The fame, magnified. 
The abortive Chives of a female bloffom, natural fize. 
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e fame, magnified. 
The Pointal of a female bloffom, magnified. 
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ftance as this {pecies being Dioecious, or with male and female flowers on different plants; we may be 
ed to fuppofe, that it has not flowered in Germany ; or that the fpecimens-he had feen, were from 
m cannot 
Turnip, Carrot, Parfnip, Radith, &c. where it applies. It muft be planted in light peat earth, and kept 
in the ttof the green-houfe, where it will flower about the month of July. Our figure was 
taken at Clapham in June, this year, from a male plant in the Hibbertian Colle&ion. 
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