PLATE CL. 



GERANIUM PRtEMORSUM. 



Bitten-leaved Gerajiium. 



CLASS XVL ORDER IV. «/ Suppi. Syst. 



Veg. 1781. 



MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



MoNOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. Frudtus rof- 

 tratus, penta-coccus. 



One Pointal. Five summits. Fruit furniflied 



with long awns, live dry berries. 

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



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Geranium foliis incifo-lobatis, reniformibus; 

 lobis cuneiformibus, praemorfis; floribus 

 fublblitariis, heptandris; caule flexuolb, 

 fubcarnoso. 



Geranium with leaves deeply cut into lobes and 

 kidney-fliaped ; lobes wedge-fhaped, and 

 bitten at the ends; flowers generally foli- 

 tary, with feven fertile tips; fteni grows 

 zig-zag, rather flefliy. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement cut open, to Ihew its tubular Itrudiiff, 



2. The Chives and Pointal. 



3. The Chives fpread open. 



4. The Pointal and Seed bud. 



The Geranium praemorfum oifers a moll beautiful addition to this already very extenfive genus, but 

 is without doubt a true fpecies. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced to us, 

 from thence, in the year 1/98, by Captain Quarrel; brought in feed, and communicated to Mr. 

 J. Colville of the King's Road, Chelfea ; who informs us, that it flowers from March, till November, 

 that he keeps it in rich dungy earth, and that it is raifed, pretty freely, by cuttings; requiring the heat 

 of a dry ftove in the winter months. Our figure was made at the nurfery, Chelfea, about the begin- 

 ning of March this year. 



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