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OTHER SPECIES OF SARCOCAULON. 
S. PATERSONII a Bon. 
4 . This species has wedge-shaped leaves, and pui'plish crimson flowers, which are not quite so large as those of 
the previous species. It was introduced in 1827. 
S. BURMANNI Sweet. 
, The leaves of this species are wedge-shaped, and the branches knotted ; the flowers are much smaller than 
( those of either of the other species ; and the seed-vessels have twisted awns. When the leaves fall, the 
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! petioles remain, and become spines. All the species are natives of the Cape of Good Hope, and they are all 
■ easily grown in a greenhouse in this counti’y ; they are very ornamental, and are readily distinguished from 
i Monsonia, which the flowers resemble, by their spiny stems. 
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GENUS III. 
GERANIUM L’Her. THE CRANE’S-BILL. 
Lyn. Syst. MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Generic Character. — Calyx of five equal sepals. Petals five, i the base of each of the larger stamens. Awns of carpels smooth on 
equal. Stamens ten, five of which are fertile and longer than the the inside, at length separating elastically from the base to the apex of 
sterile five, alternating with each other, with a nectariferous gland at | the axis, where they adhere, circinnately revolute. ((7. Bon.) 
Description, &c. — The plants belonging to this genus are partly hardy, and partly sufficiently tender to 
' require a greenhouse in this country ; and the tme Geraniums are nearly all herbaceous, as those plants which are 
j called Geraniums, generally speaking, belong to the genus Pelargonium. A few years ago, indeed, all the 
j' greenhouse Geraniums were Pelargoniums ; those belonging to the genus Geranium having been neglected on 
I account of the comparative smallness of their flowers. Latterly, however, hybrids have been raised between some 
I of the species of Pelargonium and some of the tme Geraniums, and I have, therefore, thought it advisable to 
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mention one or two of the most oi’namental species of the latter. The word Geranium signifies Crane’s-bill, in 
allusion to the shape of the seed-vessels, which with then’ long awns, bear some resemblance to the head of a 
crane. Some of the greenhouse species of this genus are, like the Pelargoniums, natives of the Cape of Good 
Hope ; but several of them are from other countries. 
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I.— GERANIUM ANEMONEFOLIUM L’Her. THE ANEMONE-LEAVED GERANIUM. 
Synonymes. — G. palmatum Car.-, G. lacvigatum Burm. 
Engravings. — Bot. Mag., t. 206 ; SAveet’s Geraniacese, t. 244 ; and 
our fig. 1, in PI. 15. 
Specific Character. — Stem suffruticose. Leaves smooth, pal- 
mately five-cleft, with bipinnatifidly-cleft segments ; upper ones three- 
parted. Peduncles opposite, erect, smooth. ((? Bon.) 
Description, &c. — This species is very ornamental, as well from its bi’ight crimson, or rather rose-coloured 
flowers, as from its very handsome leaves, which closely resemble those of the garden Anemone in shape. It is a 
native of Madeira and TeneriSe, whence it was introduced in 1778. It flowers from May to September, and as 
it ripens its seeds freely, it is an excellent plant to try to hybridise with some of the Pelargoniums. In fact, it is 
probably the parent of some of the new kinds which have been lately raised, and so much admired at the different 
flower-shows. It may be here observed, that it is always interesting to raise Geraniums and Pelargoniums from 
