PLATE CXC. 



GERANIUM ASTRAGALIFOLIUM. 



ytjfragaliis-leaved Gcraniuni. 



CLASS XVL ORDER IV. 



MONADELFHJA DECANDRIJ. Threads united. Ten Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



MoNOGYNA. Stigmata quhique. 

 Fructus rollratus, peiita-coccus. 



One PoiNTAL. Five Summits. 



Fkuit farnilhed with long awns; five dry 



berries. 

 Sec Geranium Grandifloeum, n.XIIA'ol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Geranium foliis pinnatis, hirfiitis, foliolis 

 rotundato-ovatis; caiycibus nionophyliis; 

 petalis undulatis ad bafm tortis; ftarainibus 

 (juinque t'erlilibus; radice tuberola. 



Geranium with winged, hairy leaves; leaflets 

 of a roundiflioval tliape; cups one-leaved; 

 petals waved, twitted at the bafe ; five fer- 

 tile chives ; root tuberous. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement. 



2. The Chives and Pointal. 



3. The Chives fpread open and magnified. 



4. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits, magnified. 



Ky the Kew Catalogue we are informed, that this fpecies of Geranium, was introduced to this countr)-, 

 in the year 178S, by Mr. F. MafTon. It is, like many of this branch of the extended family of 

 Geranium, rather a tender Green-houfe plant; and will not flower, in perfeflion, witliout tlie aflift- 

 ance of the Hct-houfe. It loles its foliage after flowering, and remains in a ftate of inaSion for at 

 leaft three months; during whicli period, it fliould be watered but feldom, and that fparingly. To 

 propagate it, the only mode is, by cutting fmall portions of the root oflf", and putting them into the 

 flrong he?.t of a hot-bed, about the month of March ; as liitherto, it has not perfefted any feeds with 

 us, and the plant produces no branch, except the flower-ftem may be fo denominated. Our drawing 

 was made from the Clapham Colleclion, in July, this year. This fpecies has been confidered bv Pro- 

 feflbr Martyn, (fee his edition of Mill. Dift. article Pelargonium 2.) as the fame with G. pinnatum, 

 and G. prolificum of Linn. Sp. Plan. But, however, the fpecific charaflers in Linnaeus, of thofe fpecies, 

 may agree with our figure, the G. Aftragalifolium of Jacquin and Cavanilles, they are, unqueftionably, 

 A\ ditl'erent plants; drawings of the two former we have, and will be given in due courfe. 



