Dr Graham's Descriptwn of' New or Rare Plants. 377 

 Geranium Carolinian urn. 



G. Carolinianum ; caule procumbente, teretl, dichotomo, ubique pubes- 

 ccnte ; foliis pilosiuscuUs, tripartilis, inciso-pinnatifidis, laciniis mu- 

 cronulatis, basi cuneatis, lateralibus bifidis; pedunculis sparsis bifloris, 

 pedicellos cecpiantibus ; petalis obcordatis, vix calycem pilosum mu- 

 cronatum superantibus. 

 Geranium columbinum Carolinum, capsulis nigris hirsutis, DUlen. Hort. 



Eltham, t. 135. 

 Geranium pedunculis bifloris, foliis multifidis pericarpiis hirsutis, Gronov. 



Fl. Virgin, p. 101. 

 Geranium Carolinianum, Limt. Sp. PI. voL ii. p. 956 — Cavanilles^ Dissert 

 iv. p. 20«. t. 124. f. 2. and t. 84. f. 1. ?—WUld. Sp. PL vol. iiL p. 711• 

 — 3fi//. Diet. ed. 1807, No. 30 — Pursh, 2. p. 449. 

 Geranium Carolinianum ? No. 2fi4. Richardson's Botanical Appendix to 

 Captain Franklin's Narrative of his first Journey to the Polar Sea. 

 Description — Root annual. Stem procumbent, round, hairy, spreading, 

 dichotomous, flexuose, swelling at the joints, green or reddish. Leaves 

 (about 2 inches across) green, but red when fading, opposite, petiolate, 

 reniform, tripartite, inciso-pinnatifid, two side lobes bipartite, segments 

 mucronate, veined, hairy on both sides, the hairs being soft, longer 

 and more distinct on the back of the veins ; petioles (2 inches long), 

 round, hairy, spreading wide or divaricated; stipules awl-shapcd, strongly 

 ciliated and hairy, one on each side of the petiole. Peduncles (1 inch 

 long) 2-flowered, in the bifurcations of the stem below, but in the axils of 

 the leaves above, round, covered with soft glandular hairs. Pedicels un- 

 equal, as long as the peduncles, and resembling them, curved upwards, 

 enlarging near the calyx. Bractece 4, at the bifurcation of the peduncle, 

 similar to the stipules. Flower-buds nodding ; Jlowers nearly erect. Ca- 

 lyx hairy on the outside, but glabrous within, segments 3-ribbed, flattish 

 or slightly concave externally, mucronate, mucro blunt and hairy. Co- 

 roUa rose-coloured, petals obcordate, veined, rather longer than the ca- 

 lyx ; anthers lilac, subrotund ; filaments flat, smooth, tapering towards 

 the apex, where they are spreading. Capsules hairy, slightly wrinkled 

 transversely, at first green, afterwards dark leaden coloured, hairs long, 

 coarse, spreading, of the same colour as the capsules ; beaks green, when 

 ri])ening approaching the colour of the capsules, equal to two-thirds the 

 length of the style, covered with soft, short, glandular pubescence. Style 

 hairy, green. Stigmata 5, glandular, red, at first revolute and afterwards 

 erect. Seeds dotted, oblong, black. 

 I have ascertained this to be Dr Richardson's plant, by comparison with a 

 sjiecimen presented by him to Professor Jameson, after his return from 

 his first journey. I think there is no doubt that it is the plant figured 

 by Cavanilles at 1. 124. If t. 84. be the same, it is a young plant, which 

 had not acquired its characteristic habit. There seems nearly as little 

 doubt of the identity of the plant figured by Dillenius ; but the de- 

 scriptions of the other authors quoted, and several others which might 

 have been mentioned, are so imperfect, that my chief reliance on them 

 arises from their having referred to the figure of Dillenius. Jacquin, 

 HorU Schoenbr. referre(l to in Hort. Kew. I have not an opportunity of 

 consulting. 

 We received the seeds at the Botanic Garden from Dr Richardson on his 

 return from his second journey, and have treated the plant as a hardy 

 annual 



Liparis Correana. 



L. Correana ; foliis binis, ovato-oblongis ; scapo angulato ; floribus spi- 

 catis ; sepalis margine revolutis, interioribus contortis ; Jabelio lincari- 

 spathulato, sepalis breviori, medio recurvo, apice cordato. 



Malaxis Correana, Bart. Prodr. Flor. Philadelph. p. 86 NtUtall, Genera 



of N. American Plants, v. ii. p. 196. 

 Malaxis longifolia, Bart. Flora of N. America, U 75. 

 Liparis Correana, SprenpeL, Syst. V^et. v. iii. p. 740. 



