A low, compact bush. Branches round, scarred, hairy. 
Leaves filiform, villous, very densely imbricated. Hlowers 
sessile, heaped. Ovariwm nearly round, and calyx villous 
with white hairs. Petals roundish, red, ciliated. Bundles 
of stamens polyandrous, dark blood-red, many times longer 
than the petals. 
ARG. 
Nore upon Geum coccineum, fol. 1088. 
Having communicated specimens of this plant to Sir James Smith, he 
has been so obliging as to compare them with Sibthorp’s specimens and the 
ficure 485 of the Flora Greeea. The result of this examination, we are 
informed by Sir James Smith, is that the plant figured at fol. 1088, and the 
Geum coccineum of the Flora Greca are identically the same. The doubts 
thrown upon the subject by the synonym of Balbis, and the presence of the 
plant in Chile, are therefore removed; and it only now remains to-ascertain 
how the species found its way into the latter country. 
