PLATE CLII. 



GE R A N J UM S P AT H UL AT UM. 



Spatula - Leaved Gei •aniiun . 



CLASS XVI, ORDER IV. «/ Suppi. Sysi. 



Veg. 178I. 



MO NAD ELF HI A DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



MoNOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. FruCtus rol- 

 tratus, penta-coccus. 



One Pointal. Five summits. Fruit furnifheU 



with long awns, rive dry berries. 

 See Geranium grandifloruMj PI. XII. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Geranium foliis integerrimis, fpathulatis, g!a- 

 bris, obtufis, radicalibus; calycibus mono- 

 phyllis; iiaminibus quinque fertilibus; ra- 

 dice tuberofa. 



Geranium with quite entire leaves, fpatula- 

 fliaped, I'mooth, blunt, and growing from 

 the root ; cups one-leaved ; five fertile 

 chives; root tuberous. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement cut open, to fliew its hollow flrufture. 



2. The Chives and Pointal natural fize. 



3. The Chives fpread open, to iTiew the number and fituatiou of the fertile ones, 



which are alternate. 



4. The Pointal magnified. 



The greater number of Geraniums which have been introduced of late, are of the tuberous herba- 

 ceous kind; drawings of 14 we have, independent of thofe already figured; conftituting a diftin- 

 guiflied, and diftinft natural branch of this extenfive family. For the moll part, they have only five 

 fertile chives with tubular empalements, fome only two, and others feven, with the footllalk of the 

 flower Iblid up to the bottom of the cup. This fpecies is as yet, we believe, only in the Hibberlian 

 Colleftion, Clapham, where our drawing was taken in April this year. The roots had been received 

 in the autumn of 1800 from the Cape. It appears to require the fame management as G. pun^atum, 

 and like it, may be increafed by tlie root. 



