PLATE XXXVII.
GERANIUM FRAGILE.
Brittle-stalked Geranium.
CLASS XVI. ORDER II.
MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
Monogyna. Stigmata 5. Fructus rostratus, 5-coccus.
One Pointal. Summits five. Fruit furnished with long awns, five dry berries.
See Geranium Grandiflorum, Plate XII.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Geranium foliis carnosis, pinnatis; caulis fruticosus, ramosus, fragilis; petalis linearibus, pedunculis erectis.