PLATE LX. 



GERANIUM PUNCTATUM. 



Dotted-jiowered Geranium. 



CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. Suppl. Syjlem. Feget. 1/81. 

 MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mon'ogvna. Stigmata 5. Fructus roftratus, 

 5 coccus. 



One Poiktal. Five Commits. Fruit furnilhed 

 with long awns, five dry berries. 

 See Gekanium grandiilorum, Plate XII. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Geranium foliis radicalibus; floribus umbellatis, 

 diandris; petalis duobus fuperioribus punc- 

 tatis; fligmata quatuor. 



Geranium with leaves growing from the root; 

 flowers grow in umbels, two fertile chives; 

 the two upper petals being dotted; fum- 

 mits four. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement cut open, with the Chives and Pointal left on, (natural fize). 



2. The Threads cut open, to (hew their number, and the fituation of the two fertile ones, 



(magnified). 



3. The Pointal, (magnified). 



Perhaps among!! plants, there is no genus exhibits fuch varied and numerous fpecies as Geranium; 

 no one, in which the fpecies are lo allied in natural character, or lb unfavourable to the fexual fyftem, 

 if fome deviation from general rules was not allowed : the founder thought fuch licence neccllarv, 

 and we implicitly follow him. Thus far we have thought proper to extenuate in the prefent inftance; 

 for fhould we follow Monf. L'Heritier, (as mol! of the modern correctors of Linnaeus have done,) a 

 new genus muft inevitably be formed for this plant. Upon a dole examination of the flowers, from 

 a dozen different plants, invariably, only feven threads were found; two only with tips, and thofe 

 placed immediately behind the (haft, whole fummits were but four. This Geranium is rather tender, 

 and requires a dry-ftove heat to make it flower, which it will readily do with fuch allifiance, in April; 

 about the beginning of which month, this year, a drawing was made from a plant in the collection of 

 Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy. The roots or bulbs of this plant were firlt received in England by Thomas 

 Johnes, Efq. in the year IJQi, in whofe magnificent confervatory at Havod they flowered the next 

 year. 



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