PLATE CCCXXXVII. | 
GERANIUM CORONOPIFOLIUM 
Buck s-horn-leaved Geranium. 
CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. 
- MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Monoeyna. Stigmata pandas, Fructus 
roftratus, penta-coccus. 
One Pointat. Five fummits. Fruit furnifhed 
with long awns, five dry berries, 
See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM, PI. XII. Vol. I, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Geranium foliis fubcuneatis, apice incifo-den- |} Geranium with nearly wedge-fhaped leaves, 
tatis, canefcentibus, petiolis longiffimis; deeply toothed at the end, whitith and very 
pedunculis fubtrifloris; corollis pallidé vio- long foot-ftalks; flower ftems moftly three- 
laceis; caulé fuffruticofo; ftaminibus |, flowered ; bloffoms pale purple; ftem rather 
quinque fertilibus. woody; five fertile chives, 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 
1. A Flower and a Bud from a feedling variety of this plant, by an 
intermixture of the farina of Geranium tricolor. 
2. The Cup, which is folid and five-leaved, 
3. The Chives and Pointal, magnified, 
4, The fame cut open, magnified. 
4. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summits, magnified. 
eminent SSR RE LE MBER eae nt 
Tue Geranium coronopifolium is one of thofe fpecies we may fairly denominate biennial; for fuch is 
certainly the G, tricolor, G.Oenothera, G. tomentofum, &c. and as fuch muft be propagated every 
year to have a fucceffion of them. It is readily increafed by putting the cuttings into {mall pots, and 
plunging them in the heat of a hot-bed or hot-houfe, early in the month of March; which plants will 
flower in September. It was firft introduced to the Kew Gardens by Mr. Maffon in 1792. The plant 
is very delicate, and fhould be kept in a dry part of the green-houfe, in a mixture of fandy peat and 
rich earth. Our figure is from a plant in the Hibbertian Collection; where, likewise, we found the 
_ Variety of which a flower is given on the plate. Mr. Allen informs us, he procured the Var. by a 
ayer a plant of this fpecies to the G. tricolor; firft impregnating the fummits of the flower 
_ G, coronopifolium, with the pollen from the tips of the G. tricolor, a method much practifed of late 
for the production of varieties, in many genera. 
