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

Volume 5 — PLATE CCCXXIII.

Reading edition

GERANIUM BARBATUM. Var. Minor.

Bearded-leaved Geranium. Lesser Var.

CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.

MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

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

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

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Geranium foliis pinnatis; foliolis inequaliter, dentatis, apice barbatis; floribus umbellatis; petalis linearibus, recurvatis; staminibus quinque fertilibus, binis longioribus; scapo polystachio; radice tuberosa.

Geranium with winged leaves, leaflets unequally toothed, and bearded at the point; flowers grow in umbels, petals linear, recurved; five fertile chives, two longer; flower-stem branched; root tuberous.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Cup cut open, to shew its tubular structure. 2. The Chives and Pointal, natural size. 3. The Chives cut open, magnified. 4. The Pointal, natural size. 5. The same, magnified.

Our present figure is taken from a plant in the Hibbertian Collection, Clapham; and is a very strong variety of the Bearded-leaved Geranium of a former number, taken from the same source. It is, as far as appearances lead, no way differing in character from the rest of the tuberous species of this genus, to require any other treatment. Flowers in June or July.

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