Volume 4 — PLATE CCLXIX. GERANIUM LACINIATUM. Var. bicolor.

Ragged-leaved Geranium.

Two coloured-flower Var.

CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.

MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Monogyna. Stigmata quinque.

Fructus rostratus; pentacoccus.

One Pointal. Five Summits.

Fruit furnished with long awns; five dry berries.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Geranium foliis radicalibus integris laciniatisque; laciniis acutis; petiolis filiformibus; calycibus monophyllis; staminibus quinque fertilibus; radice tuberosa; floribus bicoloribus.

Geranium with the leaves growing from the root entire and jagged; segments pointed; foot stalks thread-shaped; cups one-leaved; five fertile chives; root tuberous; flowers two-coloured.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement, a little magnified.

2. Chives, natural size.

3. The same, magnified and spread open.

4. The Pointal and seed-bud, magnified.

This very handsome variety of the ragged-leaved geranium, is but little different from the purple-flowered Var. figured No. CCIV. of this work, Vol. III, except in the colour of the flowers, and that the leaves are rather more cut. It was introduced the same year to the Hibbertian collection, flowers in the same month and requires the same treatment, as the above variety.