238 MONADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Geranium. 



tions of magnitude, and several of the following, with which it 

 has long been habitually confounded. Linnteus in writing his 

 Species Plantarum certainly did not distinguish (j. molle from 

 what he afterwards named, not happily, pijrenaicum, whose cap- 

 sules are even, though hairy. 



8. G. jnis'iUum. Small-flowered Crane's-bill. 



Stalks two-flowered. Leaves kidney-shaped, palmate, cut, 

 down}'. Capsules keeled, even, clothed with erect hairs. 

 Seeds without dots. Anthers only five. 



G. pusillum. Linn. Sp. PL 957. mild. v. 3.713. FL Br. 73i. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 6. t. 385. Huds. ed. I. 266. Dicks. Dr. PL 7S. 

 Hook. Scot. 207. DeCand. Prodr.v. 1 . 643. Cavan.Diss. 202. 

 L83.f. 1. Ehrh.Herb. 130. 



G. molle /3. Huds. ed. 2. 303. 



G. parviflorum. Curt. Lond.fasc.6. t.36. Sibth.2\3. Abbotl5\. 



G. malvsefolium. Scop. Carn. v. 2. 37. With. 603. 



G. n. 940. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 405. 



G. columbinum majus, flore minorecaeruleo. Raii S?jn. 358. Hist. 

 V. 2. 1059. railL Par. 79. t. 15./. 1. 



G. alterum. Fiuhs. Hist. 205. f. Ic. 115; same Jig. diminished. 



Small -flowered Dove Crane's-bill. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 64./. 4. 



/3. Fl. Br. 735. DeCand. Prodr.v. 1. 643. 



G. humile. Cavan. Diss. 202. t. 83./. 2. 



G. pusillum. Barm. Ger. 27. 



G. columbinum humile, fiore cseruleo minimo. Dill, in Raii Sijn. 

 359. t. 10. f. 2. 



In gravelly fields and waste ground, very common. 



Annual. June — September. 



Root tapering. Habit and pubescence much like the last species, 

 but the whole plant in general is smaller, especially the^o;t"er*-, 

 which have but 5 perfect s^fnjiCHs, and their blueishpe/«/5 scarcely 

 extend beyond tlie calyx. The leaves are mostly opposite, more 

 deeply lobed, each lobe oblong-wedge-shaped, and pretty re- 

 gularly 3-cleft. But the clear and certain specific difference 

 rests on the capsules, which are keeled, and quite even, not 

 wrinkled as in G. molle, neither are they smooth as in that, but 

 covered with close-pressed, or upright, short hairs. The seeds 

 are, like those of the molle-, quite smooth ; not dotted as in G. 

 rotundifolium. 



For the accurate discrimination of these 3 species and the pijre- 

 naicum^ about which all botanists had been uncertain, 1 am, like 

 Mr. Curtis, indebted to my late friend Mr. Davall. They can 

 never more be mistaken. 



The variety /3, examined in the Sherardian herbarium at Oxford, 

 difl'ers merely in being much smaller than usual. Indeed few 

 plants vary more in size than the present. 



