This beautiful plant is of hybrid origin, and we 
think it intermediate between P. ignescens and the large 
variety of P. cucullatum, known in collections by the 
appellation of the Royal George Geranium: it was 
raised from seeds in the collection of the Earl of Liver- 
pool, at Coombe Wood, where our drawing was taken 
in May last. 
Mr. Smith, the gardener, informs us, that it was 
from the seed of P. ignescens, and he has several other 
curious mules very different from each other, which 
have been raised from the seeds of P. ignescens, P. 
ardens, and P.fulgidum. Mr. Colville has also raised 
a very fine one from seed, which we have named P. 
pavoninum* : the colour is a light scarlet with a beauti- 
ful dark spot in the centre of each upper petal. 
This is a very free, strong-growing plant, and is no 
doubt as hardy as any of the genus, thriving well in a 
mixture of turfy loam and peat, or decayed leaves, and 
appears likely to grow to as large a size as P. cuculla- 
tum. Cuttings root easily, planted under hand-glasses, 
x)v in pots placed in a shady situation. 
* T?.pavoninum, pedunculis 3-5 floris, foliis cordato-cuneatis undu- 
latis quinquelobis rigidis duplicato-dentatis ; marginibus incurvis, petio- 
lis apice valde dilatatis margine inflexis conniventibus. 
