PLATE CCXLVI. 



GERANIUM INCRASSATUM. 



Flejhy-lenved Geramiun. 



CLASS XVL ORDER IV. 



MONADELFRIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



MoNOGYN\. Stigmata quinque. 

 Fructus roftratus, peiila-coccus. 



One Point al. Five Summits. 



Fkuit furniflied with long awns, five dry berries. 



See Geranium crasdiflorum. PI. XII. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Geranium foliis carnofi'!, inequaliter pinnatis feu 

 lobatis, laciniis tridentatis, obtufis; cornllis 

 fatunte rubris.flriatis; floribus pentandrisj 

 radice tuberofa. 



Geranium with flefhy leaves, unequally winged 

 or Jobed, Icgments three-toothed, blunt; 

 bloffoms of a deep red, and ftreaked; flowers 

 with five fertile tipsj root tuberous. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLA,TE. 



1. The Empalement cut open, to fhew its tubular flructure. 



2. The Chives fpread open. 



3. The Pointal, natural fize, with the fummits detached, magnified. 



Our figure, which exliibits a fmall plant, of this fuperb fpecies of tuberous Geranium, was taken 

 in the month of June, this year, 1802, at Meffrs. Colville's nurlery. King's Road, Chelfea, and where it 

 is ftill in high perfeftion, this prefent month of July. We have every reafon to believe, from all the 

 authorities we are matters of, that this plant has not, till now, flowered in Europe. It forms a very 

 large tuberous root, by the dividing of which it is to be propagated; as we fufpeiSl the feeds will not 

 ripen on this fpecies more tlian moft of its congeners. It has the fame manner with the reft of tlic 

 tuberous fpecies, lofing its leaves in winter, when they are fubject to rot, if much watered. Appears 

 to flourilh in fandy peat, with a fmall portion of rotten dung. 



