PLATE CXXXI. 



GERANIUM LACINIATUM. 



Ragged-leaved Geranium. 



CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. <f s,<p P i.s^,r,. 

 MONODELPHIA DECJNDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 



Monogyna. Stigmata quinque. Fruftus rof- 

 tratus, penta-coccus. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



One Pointal. Five Summits. Fruit furniihed 

 with long awns, rive dry berries. 

 See Geranium g r and iflorum,F1 .XII. Vol.1. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Geranium foliis radicalibus, integris lacinia- 

 til'que, petiolis filiformibus; calycibus mo- 

 nophyllis; Staminibus quinque ferlilibus; 

 radice tuberofa. 



Geranium with leaves growing from the root, 

 entire and jagged, foot- ftalksthread-fhaped; 

 cups one leaved; five fertile chives; root 

 tuberous. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement, with its tubular part laid open. 



2. The Chives and Pointal, as they ftand in the bloffom, magnified. 



3. The fame cut open, and detached from the Pointal, magnified. 



4. The Pointal, magnified. 



The Ragged-leaved Geranium may be considered as an herbaceous plant, for it rarely retains its leaves 

 longer than September; and when in a ftate of inaction, iliould be watered but fparingly, otherwife 

 the root will be fubjeft to rot. It may be increafed by parting the roots about March, which mould 

 be afterwards planted in rich mould, and placed on a fhelf in the hot-houfe; where they will flower 

 in May or June. From an imported plant, in the Hibbertian collection, our drawing was made this 



year. 



A continual harping on the fame fubjedt, may perhaps appear rather tirefome; but, as almoft 

 every real new fpecies of Geranium, which falls under our obfervation, feems to add a frefh proof of 

 the futility of the new arrangtment, we cannot forbear noticing it. This fpecies, for inftance, has 

 every other eflential generic charafter of Monfieur L'Hcritier's Pelargonium, but unfortunately the 

 moft eflential. Upon an accurate examination of a number of flowers, before they had expanded, 

 (the only time when it can be. truly afcertained), in no one inftance, was there more than five tips to 

 be found. Where to place it, with Erodinm, or Pelargonium? 



