Volume 1 — PLATE LXVII. GERANIUM INCISUM. Jagged-leaved Geranium.

CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.

MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Monogyna. Stigmata quinque. Fructus rostratus, 5-coccus.

One Pointal. Five summits. Fruit furnished with long awns, five dry berries.

See Geranium grandiflorum, Plate XII.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Geranium foliis multifidis, crassis, confertis; floribus umbellatis, pedunculis longissimis; caule erecto, fruticoso.

Geranium with leaves of many clefts, thick, and crowded together; flowers grow in bunches, on very long foot-stalks; stem upright, and shrubby.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives and Pointal, (natural size). 3. The Chives cut open. 4. The Pointal, (magnified).

This pretty species of Geranium, from the Cape of Good Hope, is one of those having seven fertile tips; therefore a Pelargonium of Mons. L’Heritier. It is a low growing plant, seldom exceeding eight or nine inches in height, keeping very compact; but is subject to damp in the leaves, if kept moist in winter, though otherwise pretty hardy. Mr. C. Lodiges, of Hackney, first raised it from seeds which he received from Vienna, about the year 1793. It is readily propagated by cuttings, or seeds, and continues to flower all the summer mouths; requiring light rich earth to make it flourish.

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