PLATE CLXXIIL 



GERANIUM R O S E U ^I. 



Rofv Gcranliun. 



CLASS XVL ORDER IV. 

 MONADELPHIA DECJNDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



MoNOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. Frudus rof- 

 tratus, penta-coccas. 



One Pointal. Five Summits. Fruit furniilied 



with long awns, iive dry berries. 

 See Geranium Gkandiflokum. PI. XII. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Geranium foliis incifo-lobatis, tomentofis, lobls 

 crenatis, obtuiis; pedunculis mullifloris; 

 floribus ereiftis, confertis, rofeis, pentan- 

 dris; calycibus monophyllis; radice tube- 

 rofa. 



Geranium with deeply-gallied, lobed, downy 

 leaves, the lobes Icolloped and blunt ; flower- 

 stems many flowered; the flowers erect, 

 crowded, role-coloured and with five tips; 

 cups one-leaved; root tuberous. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement, with its hollow tube cut open. 



2. The Chives cut open. 



3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits. 



About the year 1794, this fpecies of Geranium was firft introduced to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by 

 Mr. Francis Maflon, from the Cape of Good Hope. Of all the tuberous kind, tliis is, certainly, the 

 moft fpecious yet in England ; it flowers generally about March, in which month, our drawing was 

 made, from a fpecimen in the nurfery of Mr. J. Colville, King's Road, Chelfea. Mr. Colville informs 

 us, that the propagation is very ditfic\ilt, and only to be performed by the root; as the plant does not 

 produce any branches, and that the feeds do not ripen; he keeps it in a mixture of rotten leaves, and 

 fandy peat, in which, it has every appearance of luxuriant health. 



