Some light doubts, at first, arose in our minds, that this plant might be M. virgata, the 15th in Professor Martyn’s new arrangement of Miller’s Dictionary, vide art. Malva. But, from the extraordinary length of the branches of M. virgata, there described to be six feet and a half long, and only the thickness of a wheat straw at the base! with dark purple flowers; we cannot but consider this, which never rises to more than a foot and a half or two feet in the stem, with white flowers, excepting a small streak of red at the base of the petals, as a distinct and new species. It is a native of the Cape, and was received in seeds, from thence, in the year 1794. As a hardy green-house plant it is most ornamental; the blossoms, which are quite reflexed when full blown, being produced in succession from March till November, upon every part of the plant. It is increased by cuttings made in May, and placed under a hand-glass on a shady border. Light loam with a small mixture of peat, it the best soil to make it flourish. [Illustration] PLATE CXXXVI. GERANIUM CRASSIFOLIUM. _Thick-leaved Geranium._ CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. _of Suppl. System. Veg. 1781._ _MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA._ Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. MONOGYNA. Stigmata 5. Fructus rostratus, penta-coccus. ONE POINTAL. Five summits. Fruit furnished with long awns, five dry berries. See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM, Pl. XII. Vol. 1. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis acuminatis, lobato-pinnatis, sub-carnosis, laciniis inequaliter dentatis; pedunculis subquadrifloris; floribus pentandris; petalis æqualibus, purpureis. Geranium with leaves tapering to the point, winged in lobes and rather fleshy, the segments unequally toothed; foot-stalks generally four flowers; the flowers have five fertile tips; petals equal and purple. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. One Petal of the Blossom. 3. The Chives and Pointal. 4. The Chives, spread open. 5. The same, magnified. 6. The Pointal, magnified. The thick-leaved Geranium is a native of the island of Cyprus, and was introduced by Dr. Sibthorpe, on his return from visiting the Grecian islands, in the year 1788. It is, we think, no more than a biennial plant at best, as it seldom survives the second winter, and but rarely the first. If the seeds are sown in the month of March, the plants will flower the ensuing autumn, and generally produce ripe seeds, if kept in a sheltered and warm situation. This plant is unquestionably the true Erodium of L’Heritier, and those who admit of that innovation, being the one, apparently, upon which he formed his Generic distinction; as we believe, no other species, so denominated, has every constituent Essential part necessary to his Genus. [Illustration] PLATE CXXXVII. GLADIOLUS NANUS. _Dwarf Gladiolus._ CLASS III. ORDER I. _TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.