GERA NIUM ANEMONEFOLIUM. 
ANEMONE-LEAVED CRANE’S BILL. 
Class. Order. 
MONADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
GERANACE JE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
1 Duration. 
Introduced 
Madeira. 
feet. 
June, Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1788. 
No. 545. 
For the derivation of Geranium, see 484. The 
application of the specific name is self-evident. 
Many amongst the Geraniums, both British and 
foreign, possess considerable gaiety, but their foli- 
age is superabundant in comparison with their flow- 
ers; the same will hold good in relation to the Ger- 
anium anemonefolium, but with this difference, that 
its foliage is highly beautiful. Its glossy softened 
green; its graceful disposal, and elegant palmate, 
and pinnatifid divisions, make the plant attractive 
in flower or out of flower; but perhaps every one 
would be first impressed with a pleasurable sense 
of its smoothness; indeed its original specific ap- 
pellation is said to have been expressive of this 
quality. 
Young plants of the Geranium anemonefolium 
may be raised from seeds; these we once observed 
to vegetate spontaneously where they fell in the 
autumn, and the seedling plants remained uninjured 
by a very severe winter. It may also be propaga- 
ted from cuttings of the small sprouts, which are 
sparingly produced on the stems. A plant should 
be kept in the frame, to guard against casualties. 
137 Don’s Syst. Bot. v. 1, 716. 
