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ERODIUM INCARNATUM. FLESH-COLOURED
CRANE'S-BILL.
Clqfs and Order.
MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA.
Generic Charafter.-
Col. 5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala. NeH. Squamula 5 cum filamentis
alternantes; et glandulse melliferse, bafi ftaminum infi-
dentes. FruEius 5-coccus, roftratus ; roftra fpiralia, intror-
fum barbata. L'Herit. Geran.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
ERODIUM incarnatum pedunculis paucifloris, foliis tripartitis
ternatifve trifidis fcabris, caule fruticulofo.
L'Herit. n. 21. tab. 5 . Ait. Kew. v. 2.^.415.
GERANIUM incarnatum pedunculis bifloris, foliis tripartitis
trifidis glabris, "petalis integris, arillis glabris.
Linn. Suppl. PL
GERANIUM incarnatum foliis incifis quinquelobis punftatis ;
petiolis longiffimis, pedunculis trifloris. Cavam'lL
diJJ. 4. p. 2 23. n. 3 14. /. 97./. 3.
In the 8oth number of this work we gave a figure of the
Pelargonium tricolor, a plant very generally regarded as the
moft beautiful of the genus ; we now prefent our readers with
the reprefentation of an Erodium, which has to boaft nearly an
equal fhare of admiration.
This fpecies, as we learn from the Hortus Kewenjis, is a
native of the Cape, and was introduced by Mr. MASS ON in
the year 1787.
Its ufual time of flowering is July and Auguft ; in this point
* is inferior to the Pelargonium tricolor, which bloffoms
through the fpring as well as fummer months.
It produces feeds but fparingly ; cuttings of the plant are
ftruck with lefs difficulty than thofe of the Pelargonium above
^^ntioned, the fame treatment is applicable to both plants,
"ley muft be regarded as green-houfe plants of the more
?c«ider kind, which are liable to be deftroyed in the winter
lc*fon by a moift cold atmofphere.