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GERANIUM tuberosum. 
Tuberous-rooted Italian Crane' s-bill. 
G. tuberosum^ pedunculis bifloris, foliis raultipartitis : 
segmentis linearibus pinnatifidis obtusis, petalis 
obcordatis emarginatis calyce longioribus. 
Geranium tuberosum. IVillden. sp. pi. 3. p. 698. Pers. 
syn. 2. p. 234. Hart. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 184. Cav. 
disA. p. 199. t. 78./. 1. 
Root tuberous, perennial. Stems forked, long, 
prostrate, thickly covered with short white hairs. 
Leaves at the root large and much divided, upper ones 
smaller and less divided, segments linear, pinnatifid, 
obtuse. Stipules short, cordate or cordately lanceo- 
late, acute. Peduncles 2-flowered, or two 1 -flowered 
peduncles springing from the same joint. Involucre of 
4 or 6 very short concave cordately lanceolate bluntish 
bractes. Pedicles unequal in length, slightly curved. 
Sepals 5, nearly equal, ovate, concave, fringed and 
terminated with a short mucro. Petals 5, obcordate, 
deeply emarginate, of a bright rosy purple, and longer 
than the calyx. Filaments 10, slightly united at the 
base, all bearing anthers. Germen and aristce villous. 
Stigmas 5, sessile, slightly reflexed. 
A very handsome and rare perennial, seldom to be 
met with in our collections, though deserving a place 
in them all for its beauty and singularity, being so un- 
like all the others of the genus. We suspect the rea- 
son of its being so scarce is owing to the soil and 
situation in which it is generally grown ; for if it is 
planted in strong soil or a moist situation, its tuberous 
