PLATE CXXXI.
GERANIUM LACINIATUM.
Ragged-leaved Geranium.
CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. of Suppl. System. Veg. 1781.
MONODELPHIA 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.
See Geranium grandiflorum, Pl. XII. Vol. I.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Geranium foliis radicalibus, integris laciniatisque, petiolis filiformibus; calycibus monophyllis; Staminibus quinque fertilibus; radice tuberosa.