CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
Monogyna. Stigmata quinque.
Fructus rostratus, 5-coccus.
One Pointal. Five Summits.
Fruit furnished with long awns; five dry berries.
See Geranium Grandiflorum, Pl. XII. Vol. I.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Geranium foliis lanceolatis, obtusis, subsinuatis; petalis subæqualibus, linearibus; floribus pentandris; radice tuberosa.