The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 05 [of 10]

Volume 5 — PLATE CCC.

Reading edition

GERANIUM OXALIDIFOLIUM.

Wood-Sorrel-leaved Geranium.

CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.

MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

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

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

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Geranium foliis ternatis, foliolis ovatis, obtusis, ciliatis; floribus pentandris; radice tuberosa.

Geranium with leaves composed of three leaflets, which are egg-shaped, obtuse, and fringed; flowers with five fertile chives; root tuberous.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement of a flower cut open, to shew its tubular structure. 2. The Chives and Pointal, natural size. 3. The Chives spread open, magnified. 4. The Pointal, natural size. 5. The same, magnified.

The species of Geranium here figured, is of the same character, in all points of view, as most of the tuberous species lately introduced from the Cape by G. Hibbert, Esq. in whose collection, at Clapham, it is only to be found, at present; and where our drawing was taken, in July 1802.

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