GE'UM CHILOENSE. 
CHILE GEUM. 
Class. Order. 
ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ROSACEiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Chile. 
2 feet. 
June, Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1826. 
No. 273. 
Geum is a term which has been introduced from 
the ancients, and its original signification is uncer- 
tain. Some have supposed that it was instituted in 
allusion to the gaiety of the flowers, from the Greek 
gaio, to be splendid; whilst others adopt geyo 
to taste well. The specific name, Chiloense, from 
Chile, its native country. 
This plant was published by Lindley,in the Botan- 
ical Register, as Geum Coccineum ; and as such was 
distributed from the London Horticultural Society’s 
Gardens. Sweet, in his Flower Garden, afterwards 
pointed it out as different from the Geum coccineum 
of previous authors, and called it Geum quellyon. 
In a late number of the Botanical Register, a variety 
of our present subject is figured; and the author 
having had an opportunity of examining the original 
specimen of Geum coccineum of the Flora Grseca, 
found it to be distinct from the present subject of 
our gardens, which he had previously so called. He 
therefore withdrew the name coccineum, and adopted 
that of Chiloense, after Baldis and Decandolle. 
Our readers should clearly understand that there 
is only one species of Geum, in any degree similar 
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