


OF ORNAMENTAL EXOTIC PLANTS. 61 
OTHER SPECIES OF SARCOCAULON. 
S. PATERSONII G Don. 
This species has wedge-shaped leaves, and purplish crimson flowers, which are not quite so large as those of 
the previous species. It was introduced in 1827. 
S. BURMANNI Sweee. 
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 
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 country; they are very ornamental, and are readily distinguished from 
Monsonia, which the flowers resemble, by their spiny stems. 
GENUS III. 
GERANIUM L’Her. THE CRANE’S-BILL. 
Lyn. Syst MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA,. 
Generic Cuaracter.—Calyx of five equal sepals. Petals five, } 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. (G. Don.) 
Description, &c.—The plants belonging to this genus are partly hardy, and partly sufficiently tender to 
require a greenhouse in this country; and the true Geraniums are nearly all herbaceous, as those plants which are 
called Geraniums, generally speaking, belong to the genus Pelargonium. A few years ago, indeed, all the 
greenhouse Geraniums were Pelargoniums; those belonging to the genus Geranium having been neglected on 
account of the comparative smallness of their flowers. Latterly, however, hybrids have been raised between some 
of the species of Pelargonium and some of the true Geraniums, and I have, therefore, thought it advisable to 
mention one or two of the most ornamental species of the latter. The word Geraniwm signifies Crane’s-bill, im 
allusion to the shape of the seed-yessels, which with their 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. 
1.—GERANIUM ANEMONEFOLIUM LZ’ Her. THE ANEMONE-LEAVED GERANIUM. 
Synonymes.—G. palmatum Cawv.; G. levigatum Burm. Sprciric Cuaractrer.—Stem suffruticose. Leaves smooth, pal- 
Encrayines.—Bot. Mag., t. 206 ; Sweet’s Geraniacer, t. 244; and | mately five-cleft, with bipinnatifidly-cleft segments; upper ones three- 
our jig. 1, in Pl. 15. parted. Peduncles opposite, erect,smooth. (G Don.) 
Description, &c.—This species is very ornamental, as well from its bright 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 Teneriffe, 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 mach admired at the different 
flower-shows. It may be here observed, that it is always interesting to raise Geraniums and Pelargoniums from 





