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no reclrefs, as t!ie original name had not been printi^d. It is 

 a hardy greenhoufe pknt, throwing out, from its fliort knotty 

 Jlcm, a profuiion of fpreading, long-flalked, (liining, palmate, 

 prinnatifid leaves, and many fpreading, leafy tranches, forked 

 upwards. The Jlozi'crs are large, of a fine crimfon, broader 

 than a half-crown. 



G. nijcrorrhizrim, Linn. Sp. PI. 953. Jacq. Ic. Rar, t. 

 134, native of Italy, is a very common hardy pcreiniial in our 

 gardens, remarkable for the roundnefs of its red petals, and 

 the ftrong, but aromatic, cedar-like, fcent of its herbage. 

 The plant is of humble growth, with a Ihort knotty J/em, 

 Lke the laft. Leaves foft and downy. 



G. p!.\t:w;, Linn. Sp. PI. 953. Engl. Bot. t. 322 ; and 

 ■ G. fufcum, Linn. Mant. 97, two fpecies very nearly akin, 

 are remarkable for the dark brown colour of their floivers ; 

 as G. rejlexum, ibid. 257. Cavan DiiT. t. Si. f. I, is for its 

 reflexed petals, and O. iividum, Ij'Herit. Geran. t. 39, firlt; 

 well determined by Haller at his No. 935, though he was not 

 for fome time attended to, for its flat, round, ferrated petals, 

 of a pale livid dove-colour. Tlicfe four laft are often fcen iu 

 gardens about London. 



G. nodofum, Linn. Sp. PL 953. Engl. Bot. t. 1091, is 

 the moft rare BritiHi fpecies, and Icarcely found ellewhere 

 but on the mountains of Provence and Dauphiny, in fliady 

 places. 



G.jlnafum, Linn. Sp. PI. 953. Curt. Mag. t. 55, a native 

 of Italy, very hardy with us, is generally admired for its 

 delicately pencilled blolfoms. 



G. angulalitm. Curt. Mag. t. 203, now frequent in gar- 

 dens about London, but from wliat country imported is not 

 known, was firft afcertained as a diilinft fpecies by the late 

 T-ir. Curtis, llsjloiuers are prettily veined with reddilh pur- 

 ple on a pale ground. 



G. pra'cnfe, Linn. Sp. PI. 954. Engl. Bot. t. 404, a very 

 handfomc blue-flov.-ered fpecies, common m paftures in the 

 north, is extremely remarkable, and almoll fingular in this 

 natural order, for having fometimes double flowers, iu which 

 llate it was found near Athol houfe, Scotland, by lady 

 Charlotte Murray in 1793. It is often feen with white petals. 



G. argenteum, Linn. Sp. PI. 954. Curt. Mag. t. 504, a 

 native of Mount Baldus, was introduced into England by 

 the indefatigable and intelligent Mr. Lodiige, whofe zeal and 

 liberality as a cidtivator are above all praife. Its leaves are 

 beautifully filvery, the plant dwarf, but the _;?0TOi7V pecu- 

 liarly large, blulh-coloured, veined with red. 



G. pyrena'icum, Linn. Mant. 97. Sin. Fl. Brit. 735. Engl. 

 Bot. t. 405. Curt. Lond. fafc. 3. t. 42, common about Lon- 

 don and Edinburgh, has not been well underilood, even by 

 Mr. Curtis, who undertook to illnftrate it. Linnseus ori- 

 . ginally confounded it with moUe hereafter mentioned, from 

 which iis even capiules, perennial root, and greater magni- 

 tude, keep it very diftintt. 



*** Flower-il;alks two-flowered. Root annual; II fpecies. 



G. hohemlcum, Linn. Sp. PI. 955, placed firft in this fee- 

 lion, well drawn m Diilenius's Hort. Elth. t. 133. f. i6o, is 

 remarkable for its very black hairy feed-veifels, and viicid 

 herbage. 



G. molle, Engl. Bot. t. 778, ought to follow immediately ; 

 with d'tlpdum, t. 753; rotutuUfot'iiwi, t. 157; TmA pufllum, 

 t. 385. Tliefefour, long confounded, and fcarcely underilood 

 by any botanift, are beautifully diilinguifhed, in every degree 

 of luxuriance, by their cap/ides, which are corrugated and 

 naked in the f.rll ; more flightly corrugated, but hairy, with 

 reticulated feeds, inthe fecond ; carinated, even and haij-y, with 

 reticulated feeds in the third, with much more entire leaves ; 

 even and hairy, with fmooth feeds, in the la!t, whofe hairs on 

 the part in quellion are, moreover, clofe-preiTed; not fpread'ng 



a.? in the preceding. We were obliged to thelate Mr. Davall 

 for firll calling our attention to this part, and tiiu.s Ic; ding to 

 one of the moll fatisfaclory difcoveries in European botany. 



Gr carolin'uumm, Linn. Sp. PI. 956. Jacq. Hort. Schonbr. 

 v. 2. t. 140, where it is miftaken for a new plant, and called 

 lanugimfum ! follows thefe ; with cnlumhtnnm, Engl. Bot. 

 t. 259. To which fliouldfucceed luctdum, t. 75 ; then, if it be 

 a diftinft fpecies, which we much Aouhx, puipureum of Will, 

 denow, n. 39, and Villars Dauph. t. 40; and finally rcbcr- 

 tiariuni, Engl. Bot. t. I4«6. Curt. Lond. fafc. i.t. 52. This 

 purpureum has been a weed in Chelfea garden ever fnice the 

 tune of Miller, but though Ray mentions it as a native, fee 

 Fl. Brit. 732, G. rolertianum ,3, we never gathered it elfc- 

 where. 



Geuaxil'.m, in Gardening, comprehends plants of the her- 

 baceous perennial kind, of which the fpecies cultivated are, 

 the dark flowered crane's-bill (G. phoeum) ; the knotty 

 crane's-bill (G. nodofum); the ftreakcd crane's-bill (G. 

 Itriatum) ; the Siberian crane's-biU (G. fibiricum) ; the 

 bloody crane's-bill (G. fanguineunT) ; and the long-rooted 

 crane's-bill (G. macrorhizum) ; but there are other forts 

 that may be cultivated with propriety. 



Tiie fifth fpecies has feveral varieties, as with ihort fpread- 

 ing ftenis and fmall le:;ves and flowers ; w ith large leaves 

 deeply divided, and with variegated or ftriped flowers. 



hiethod of Culture. — Each of thefe fpecies of plants is 

 capable of being increafed in two ways, either by fowing the 

 feeds or parting the roots. Where the firlt methtd is 

 adopted, the feeds (hould be fown in the autumn as focn as- 

 they have become perfectly ripened, eitlier in pots or a fliady 

 border in the garden ground where the mould is light and fine. 

 As foon as the plants have acquired a few inches in growth, 

 thcylhould be pricked out into other pots, or beds of fimilar 

 earth, at the diftance of hss: or fix inches in the latter cafe ; 

 but where this cannot be done, they may be permitted to re- 

 main until the following autumn or fprintr, and be then put 

 out into other pots or borders, where they are to continue,. 

 being occafionally watered in a moderate manner. 



In cafes where the parting of the roots is prac^ifed, care 

 fliculd be taken not to divide them too much ; planting 

 them out in the early part of the autumn, either in pots or' 

 where they are to continue. 



Moft of thefe forts of plants are of rather hardv orowth, 

 and fucceed in moft kinds of ground, demanding but little at- 

 tention in their cultivation, befide that of tlieir being kept 

 clear from all forts of weeds and rubbifti. 



All of them are capable of aff'ording variety in the borders, 

 clumps, and other parts of pleafure gardens, and the potted 

 kinds produce a fine effeCl in fituations about the houfes ir. 

 mixture with thofe of otlier forts. 



GERANOS, Ttfavo-, in Ar.fiqiiity, a remarkable dance 

 performed in the feftival called Delia. 



GERANZAGO, in Geography, s. town of Italy; nine 

 miles E.N.E. of Pavia. 



GERAR, or Ger.\SAR, or G.zaraL, in Serlpturc Geo- 

 gruphy, a city of the Phililtines, S. of .ludah.- The Abi^ 

 melechs were kings of this city in the time of Abraham 

 and Ifaac. At this time it was the boundiiry of the Ca- 

 naanites, fituated on the river Be/or, about feven miles S.W.. 

 of Debir, and fix E. of Beerftieba. It aLerwards be- 

 longed to the tribe of Simeon. Geiar ext.nded far into- 

 Arabia Petrsa, being 25 miles from Eleutlieropolis, be- 

 yond Daroma, the ioiith of Gudah. Moles Jays, tliat it 

 lay between Kadclh and Shur; and he mentions the brook 

 or valley of Gerai\ (Gen. xxvi. 26.) Sozomen fpeaks 

 of a little tov^iij called Cera, 50 furlongs from Pelulium. 



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