Geranium with hairy leaves many-cleft; flowers with seven fertile chives; foot-stalk, many flowers; petals dark purple, pale at the margin; stem half shrubby, grows a span high. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement, cut open as far as to the solid part. 2. The Chives and Pointal. 3. The Chives cut and spread open, magnified. 4. The Pointal, magnified. This beautiful species of Geranium was raised by Mr. J. Armstrong, nurseryman of Northwarmborough, Hants, from seeds received by him, in 1796, from the Cape of Good Hope. From a branch, in fine flower, brought to us, this year, in the month of June, by Mr. Dickinson, our drawing was made; who informs us, that the ordinary treatment of common Geraniums, is all that is required for this; that it is increased by cuttings, or from a division of the root, in spring. It has not, as yet, produced any perfect seed; although it has flowered abundantly these two years, from May till October. It has something the habit of G. triste, or the Night-smelling Geranium; but differs from that species, in having a short shrubby stem, the leaves shorter and harsher, and the flowers entirely without smell. [Illustration] PLATE CXV. GERANIUM TOMENTOSUM. _Downy-leaved Geranium._ CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. _of Suppl. System. Veg._ 1781. _MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA._ Threads united. Ten Chives. _See Geran. Grandiflorum. Pl. XII. Vol. I._ ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. MONOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. FRUCTUS rostratus, penta-coccus. One POINTAL. Five Summits. FRUIT furnished with long awns, five dry berries. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis ovatis, plicatis, erectis, serratis, tomentosis; floribus pentandris; filamentia duobus superioribus revolutis, ciliatis. Geranium with egg-shaped leaves, plaited, upright, sawed, and downy; flowers with five fertile chives; the two upper threads rolled back and fringed. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives and Pointal, natural size. 3. The Chives cut open, magnified. 4. The Pointal, and Seed-bud. The Downy-leaved Geranium, according to the Hort. Cantab. of Mr. Donn, introduced from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1794, is a dwarf growing, and rather delicate species, of this extended and very mutable tribe of plants; producing its flowers about the month of August. It is to be increased from the seeds, which sometimes ripen; or by cuttings, taken off in the month of March, and placed on a gentle hotbed; but if delayed to be made till much later, it will be found difficult to propagate by this mode. Less of dung and more loam, than is necessary for most Geraniums, will preserve this plant best through the winter; in which season, it should be kept in a dry and airy part of the greenhouse, to avoid the damps, which otherwise, often prove fatal to it.