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PARKINSON very accurately notices the striking characters of
this species of Anemone, which are its creeping roots, its large white
flowers standing on the tops of the flower-stalks, which sometimes grow
two together, but most commonly singly; the leaves on the stalk, he
observes, are more finely divided than those of the root, and its seeds
are woolly.
MILLER describes it as having little beauty, and therefore but
seldom planted in gardens; it is true, it does not recommend itself by
the gaudiness of its colours, but there is in the flowers, especially
before they expand, a simple elegance, somewhat like that of the
Snowdrop, and which affords a pleasing contrast to the more shewy
flowers of the garden.
It flowers in May, and ripens its seeds in June.
It will grow in almost any soil or situation, is propagated by offsets
from the root, which it puts out most plentifully, so as indeed
sometimes to be troublesome. Is a native of Germany.
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~Geranium striatum. Striped Geranium.~
_Class and Order._
~Monadelphia Decandria.~
_Generic Character._
Monogynia. _Stigmata_ 5. _Fructus_ rostratus 5-coccus.
_Specific Character and Synonyms._
GERANIUM _striatum_ pedunculis bifloris, foliis quinquelobis: lobis
medio dilatatis, petalis bilobis venosoreticulatus. _Linn. Syst.
Vegetab. p. 616._
GERANIUM _striatum_ pedunculis bifloris, foliis caulinis trilobis,
obtuse crenatis. _Miller's Dict._
GERANIUM Romanum versicolor sive striatum.