PLATE CCXXXIX. 



GERANIUM SELINUM. 



Rock-ParJley-leaved Geranium. 



CLASS XVL ORDER IV. 

 MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



MoNOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. 

 Fructus roftratus, penta-coccus. 



One Point al. Five Summits. 



Fkuit furnifhed with long awns, five dry benics. 



See Geranium grandiflorum. Vol. 1. P). Xli. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Geranium follis pinnatis, follolis alternis, laci- 



niatis, hirfutis; petala bina fuperiora re- 



fracta, 3 inferiora concava, conniventia, 



. re£la; ftaminibus 5 fertilibusj radice tube- 



rofa. 



Geranium with winged leaves; leaflets allernatc, 

 ragged, and hairy; the two upper petals 

 appearing broke back, the 3 lower concave, 

 approaching and Ilraight; fivefertilc chives; 

 root tuberous. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement. 



2. The Chives, cut open and magnified. 



3. The Poiutal and Seed-bud magnified. 



Geranium felinum claims the priority of introduftion, with us, to any of that numerous divifion, 

 in this large family, which are tuberous rooted and ttemlefs, not including the G. trille, G. lobatum, 

 or G. prolificura; and of which, although we have given many figures, we ftiU poffefs drawings of 

 18 handfome fpecies, befides numberlefs varieties. It was introduced in 1/88 by Meffrs. Lee and 

 Kennedy; is a hardy greenhoufe plant, being lefs fubjeft to rot, after the decay of the leaves, than 

 any of its congeners; flowers freely about June, and is propagated by the root; the feed (fometimes) 

 ripens likewife. Our figure was taken from a plant, whofe root had been received at the Clapham 

 Garden, in 1800. As all the plants figured in the Botanill's Repofitory, are titled with the com- 

 monly accepted names, if any, in England; and, as many have been given under different naines, in 

 fome other publications, whence much confufion; we (hall defer all attempt at fynonim, til! the end 

 of this Volume, when a copious Index Synonimorum will be publiflied, of all the plants figured in the 

 work, for the ufe of thofe who wifli for fuch authorities. 



