PLATE CCLXXYJI. 



GERANIUM SPATHULATUM. 



Far. curvijloriijn. 



Spatula - leaved Geranium . 



Curled-flowered Far, 



CLASS XVL ORDER IV. 

 3I0NADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



MoNOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. Fruftus rof- 

 tratus, penta-coccus. 



One Pointal. Five Summits. Fruit furnifhed 



with long awns, five dry berries. 

 SeeGERANiuM grandiflorum, pi. XII. Vol.1. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Geranium foliis integerrimis, fpathulatis, fub- 

 ciliatis; calycibus monophyllis; petalis re- 

 curvalis ; ftaminibus quinque fertilibus; 

 radice tuberofa. 



Geranium with quite entire leaves, fpatula- 

 lliaped, flightly fringed; cups one-leaved; 

 petals recurved; five fertile chives, root 

 tuberous. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement magnified. 

 '1. The Chives fpread open. 



3. The Pointal natural lize. 



4. The fame magnified. 



This fine variety of the Spatula-leaved Geranium is, as yet, only to be found, in the Hibbertian col- 

 leftion. Its date in Britain is tiie fame as the G. fpathulatum, of tliis work, plate 152, Vol. III. We 

 ihould not have confidered the curved charaifter of the petals, alone, a futiicient groundwork to con- 

 ftitute even a variety ; but the flight fringe which may be difcovered on the leaves of our prefent 

 plant, and not in the fmalleli degree to be traced in the other, determined this to be, in our opinion, 

 deferving notice, at leafl as a variety. For the treatment and culture of the plant, fee G. punftatum 

 of the Botanitt's Bepofuory, plate 60, Vol. I. which may well ferve for this. 



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