NAT. ORDER. 
Geraniacece. 
GERANIUM SANGUINEUM. VICTORIA PERFECTION. 
Class XVI. Monadelpia. Order V. Decandria. 
Gen. Char. Calyx, five-leaved, equal. Stamens, ten ; five alternate 
ones longer, with nectariferous glands at the base. Pericarps, 
five, with long awns, united to elongated receptacles, at length 
separating elastically from the summit to the base. Awns, 
smooth internally. 
Spe. Char. Stem, angular, erect, retrorsely pubescent, dichomou?. 
Leaves, three to five-parted, incised ; radicle ones on long peti- 
oles ; upper ones opposite, sessile. Petals, entire. Filaments, 
scarcely ciliate at the base. 
The root of this plant is fleshy, bulbous, knotty, of a dark brown 
color, and sends off a number of small succulent fibres ; the stems 
of this genus of plants are upright, branched, and rise from one to 
six feet in height ; the calyx is composed of five equal sepals ; the 
petals are five, and equal ; the stamens are ten, five of which are fer- 
tile and larger than the sterile ones, which are alternating with each 
other, with a nectariferous gland at the base of each of the larger 
stamens ; the axons of the carpel are smooth on the inside, at length 
separating elastically from the base to the apex of the axis, where it 
adheres, circinnately revolute ; the leaves are palmate-lobed ; the pe- 
duncles are twelve-flowered, bearing beautiful flowers of various 
hues. 
This variety of the Geranium approaches, both in appearance 
and properties, the Geranium maculatum, or Spotted Crane's-bill, 
which grows in almost all parts of the United States. The root is 
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