MONADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Geranium. 233 



G. primum, puUo flore. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 99./. Pann. 4 1 5,/. 416. 

 G. phseo, sive pullo, flore Clusii. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 477./. 

 G. phseum, seu fuscum, petalis reflexis. Moris, v. 2. 5\5. sect. 5. 

 M6,/. 18. 



In mountainous thickets, rare. 



Found by Mr. Drayton, apothecary, of Maidstone, atTovell, in the 

 valley by the old fulling-mill. DHL About Clapham and Ingle- 

 ton, Yorkshire. Huds. In Lancashire, Cambridgeshire, and 

 Bedfordshire. Engl. But. On a bank at Ash Booking, Suffolk. 

 Mrs. Cobbold. About Nevvburgh, Yorkshire. Rev. Archdeacon 

 Peirson. Most truly wild perhaps in the mountainous parts 

 of Yorkshire, and Lancashire. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root thick, somewhat woody. Stem erect, round, hairy, leafy, 

 1 5 or 2 feet high, panicled at the top, many-flowered. Leaves 

 palmate, many-lobed, sharply and unequally cut, strongly vein- 

 ed, rather downy than hairy ; their principal lobes often stained 

 with brown at each side near the base ; lower ones stalked ; up- 

 permost nearly sessile, opposite to the inferior flower-stalks. 

 Stipulas lanceolate, brown, hairy. Stalks hair\', cloven, bear- 

 ing two nearly upv'ightjlowers, with small, brown, opposite brac- 

 teas, in pairs under each partial stalk. Cal. hairy, fringed, but 

 slightly pointed. Pet. wavy, with more or less of a terminal 

 point, dark chocolate-coloured ; greenish white at the base. 

 Lower part of each stamen fringed with long hairs. Capstdes ra,- 

 ther obovate, keeled at the outside, hairy in their lower half, 

 transversely wrinkled in the upper. 



G. fuscum of' Linnaeus, Mantissa 97, differs in having simple sin- 

 gle-flowered stalks, in pairs, distinct from the very base. Other- 

 wise I find no difterence. We have it not in Britain. Linnaeus 

 who cultivated it observed the leaves to be more rigid. 



2. G. nodosum. Knotty Crane's-bill. 



Stalks two-flowered. Leaves opposite, five- or three-lobed, 

 pointed, serrated. Capsules even, downy all over. 



G. nodosum. Linn. Sp. PL 953. Willd. v. 3. 701 . FL Br. 730. 



EngLBot.v.\6.t.\09l. DeCand. Prodr. v. \. 640. Cavan. 



Diss.208.t.8Q.f.]. Bauh. Pin. 318. Moris.v.2. 5\6.secL5. 



t.\6.f.22. 

 G. quintum nodosum Plateau. Raii Syn. 361. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 



101./. Ger. Em. 947 . f. 

 G. magnum, folio trifido. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 478./. 

 Knotty Crane's-bill. Petiv. H. BriL t. 65./. 4. 



In mountainous thickets, very rare. 



Wild in the mountainous parts of Cumberland, according to Mr.- 

 Avchergen, who brought it to Bobart. Ray. Confirmed by 



