NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



XXXVI. GERANIACEiE. 



I. "BIEBEKSTEINIA SEEIES. 



We shall not commence tlie study of this family -with, the 

 Geraniums although it owes its name to them ; for they have not 



Geranium Jtohertianum. 



Fig. 1. Floriferous branch. 



independent carpels, and the type in which this disposition exists is 

 Biehersteinia} (fig. 2-7). We shall then first analyse the flowers 

 which are regular and hermaphrodite, with convex receptacle. This 



' Steph. in Mdm. Soc. Nat. Mose. i. 89, t. 9.— (in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, vi. 137).— B. H. Gen.' 



DC. Frodr. i. 707. — A. Juss. in Mem. Mm, xii. 271, n. 1.— Schnizl. leonogr. xii. t. 253. — H, 



458. — Endl. Gen. n. 6044. — Lindl. Veg. Kingd. Bn. in. Adansmiia, x. 317. 

 471. — Jatjb. et Spach, Consp, Gen. Bieberpteinia 



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