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Show . amt . The BRET 1S:H HERBAL 202 ee The flowers are moderately large, and of a bright red: they ftand on flender footitalks, one, two, or more together. The beaks are large. The whole plant in its wild ftate has a difagreeable fmell, thoughnot foftrong as the root. It is a native of the mountainous parts of Europe, andflowers in June, The generality of authors call it Ger fetidum. 6. Tuberous-rooted Cranetbill.. Ger. 5 nu is tuberofa. The root is large and knobby; of a dufky colour, and infipid tothe tafte. The leaves are numerous, and beautiful'y divided: they ftand on long, flender, hairy footftalks; and they are themfelves a little hairy, and of a pale green: their approaches to round, but,they are cut into nine or more fegments down to the middle rib; and thefe are again deeply notched, and divided. The ftalk is round, upright, but weak, and a foot high : it is not much branched. Theos onit ré le thofe from theroot, but that th i The flowers are large, and of a bright red: they ftand on flender pedicles rifing from the bofoms of the leaves, two on each. ks are long, and moderately thick. It is a native of Spain, and flowers in A uguft, C. Bauhine2it Ge near its bottom: it is of a pale colour, and % are the leaves. The Aowers ftand at the tops ofthebranches in large tufts; and they are very beautiful: they are large, andofan elegant red tendingto purple, and have yellowifh adiget. The beaks arelarg 3efore fun-rife, and after it is fet, the whole plant has a very fragrant fmell; but it is not much perceived in the middle of the day, It is a native of Africa, and flowers in July, Commelin calls it Geranium Africanun oleus tubero tis foliis There are many varieties of this preferved in our gardens. at the top of the ftalk, where there is fpread under them a kind of root is long, thick, and tuberous. firft leaves are large, numerous, and fupon long, hairy footftalks: they are very fina fe at the edges, andofa pale green, tly hairy, andfoft to the touch, ftalk is round, firm, ere¢t, and irreguare of the fame form with nd they grow principally SSH CL Geranium Africanum caule nudo. The root is compofed of numerous fibres rifing from a fmall head. The leaves rife in great ntimbers, and have long footftalks; but thefe are fo weak that the leaves are feldom fupported tolerab! | are not unlike laurel leaves in tha c and not at all dented at the edges they aia have a couple of {mall leaves placed onthefootftalk, in the manner of ears, a little belowtheirbafe. The ftalks are numerous, round, flender, a foot high: they are ufually naked, but fom times have, toward the ground, a leaf or two, like thofe which grow on the foorftalks of the others. At the top of each ftalk flands a large tuft of The ‘The oe broad, PHEGSS HER 8. Naked-ftalked African Geranium. flowers, twenty or more: each flower has its feparate footftalk ; and theyall rife from one point umn flore purty RITISH general cup, formed of five little, oblong leaves. The flowers themfelves are lar beautiful red, tending to pur, are {mall. It is a native of Africa, and flowersi: Commelin calls it Ger: Plerumque auritis flore rubro f A Be Se eee Plants whofe flower is compofed of r1vu rrvats irregularly difpofed have a SINGLE capsuLe /fucceeding each flower, and have placed irregularly on the fralks. AHEplants with five petals in the flower, and a fingle capfule, are very numerous; and, therefore, the obferving fuch fubordinate characters as nature has placed between them is i the more neceffary: had there been fewer of them, the whole might one clafs; and thefe general diftinétions, from the ftructure of the fower, and difpofition of the plexes the {ftudent fo much leaves on the ftalks, would only have fubdivided them: but nothing 2 1 1 as too great a multiplicity of objeéts under the fame head. It is for this reaf caufe, cr ame for rated many of thofe genera which Linnzus had j aed together5 and, affortment of plants is difpofed underthree clafles: nature has furnifhedfafiicient grounds for the diftin@ion, and they are fufficiently obvious; the fcience therefore will be rendered more familiar, r f byfollowing this method in her fteps. Linneus, in this, as in other cafes often before mentioned, feparates the plants belo: gs to one where needful in the accounts h, however needful to the into feveral of his moft remote clafles: I fhall be content to name criticif of the feveral genera, not to fill too many pages with fervice of thefcience, I never make without concern. Weknowlittle of the virtues of thefe plants; but they feem in general of the f ¢ with thofe of our own growth, Thofe of which one or more fpecies are naturally wild in this kingdom. E Th END of # TENTH CL ASS, N Ve U ti S Ec Ts Veil OL A. is te of the flower. ¢ valves, and cor refi placed f{ t 1 nipp’d at the top; and it runs 1 the two others | of an oval form, w 1¢ cup is fimall, cor ile, intricate, |