PLATE XXVIII. 



GERANIUM ELEGANS. 



Round-leaved Geranium . 



CLASS XVI. ORDER II. 



MONODELPHIJ DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Monogyna. Stigmata 5. Fructus roftratus, 

 5-coccus. 



One Pointal. Five Summits. Fruit furnifhed 

 with long awns, 5 dry berries. 

 See Geranium granoiflorum, Plate XII. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Geranium pedunculis multifloris; calycibus mo- 

 nophyllis, foliis orbiculatis, ferratis rigidis, 

 petiolis longiflimis; caule herbaceo. 



Geranium, the fruit-ftalks fupporting many flow- 

 ers j cups of one leaf; the leaves round, 

 fawed, and harm, with very long foot-ftalks; 

 ftem herbaceous. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement cut open, to fliew its tubular fhape to its bafe. 



2. The Chives, and Pointal, natural fize. 



3. The Pointal, magnified. 



This truly elegant fpecies of Geranium was introduced to us from the Cape of Good Hope, in the 

 year 1/95; being raifed from feeds, received from thence, by Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, in whofe 

 collection it flowered for the firft time this year, about the latter end of May, and from which fpeci- 

 men this figure was taken. It is one of thofe that have in general feven fertile tips, and, therefore, 

 muft be placed under Mr. L'Heritier's genus Pelargonium, by thofe who follow his new arrangement. 

 It is a hardy plant, and requires only a common greenhoufe for its protection, where it will leed; 

 which feems to be the readieft mode of propagating it, as it produces but very few branches; thriving 

 beft in rich earth. 



