PLATE CXXXVT. 



GERANIUM CRASSIFOLiU M. 



Thick-leaved Geranium. 



CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. °f Suppl. Syftem. 



Feg. 1781. 



MONA DELPHI A DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Monogyna. Stigmata 5. Fru£tus roftratus, 

 penta-coccus. 



One Pointal. Five fummits. Fruit furnifhed 



with long awns, five dry berries. 

 See Geranium grandiflorum, PI. XII. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Geranium foliis acuminatis, lobato-pinnatis, fub- 

 camolis, laciniis inequaliter dentatis; pe- 

 dunculis fubquadriflorisj fioribus pentau- 

 dris; petalis asqualibus, purpureis. 



Geranium with leaves tapering to the point, 

 winged in lobes and rather fleiliy, the feg- 

 ments unequally toothed; foot-ftalks gene- 

 rally four flowers; the flowers have five fer- 

 tile tips; petals equal and purple. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement. 



2. One Petal of the Bloflbm. 



3. The Chives and Pointal. 



4. The Chives, fpread open. 



5. The fame, magnified. 



6. The Pointal, magnified. 



The thick leaved Geranium is a native of the ifland of Cyprus, and was introduced by Dr. Sibthorpe, 

 on his return from vifiting the Grecian iflands, in the year 178S. It is, we think, no more than a 

 biennial plant at beft, as it feldom furvives the fecond winter, and but rarely the firft. If the feeds are 

 fown in the month of March, the plants will flower the enfuing autumn, and generally produce ripe 

 feeds, if kept in a fheltered and warm fituation. This plant is unqueftionably the true Erodium of 

 L'Heritier, and thofe who admit of that innovation, being the one, apparently, upon which he formed 

 his Generic diitinftion ; as we believe, no other fpecies, fo denominated, has every conflituent Ellen- 

 tial part neceflary to his Genus. 



