230 MONADELPHIA-PENTANDRIA. Erodiura. 



G. primum. Fuchs. Hist. 204. f. 



G. tertiura, Matth. Valgr. v. 2.209. f. 



Herba Roperti. Brunf. Herb. u. 2. 37./. 



Myrrhida Plinii^ &c. Lob. Ic. 659./. 



/3. Geranium inodorum album. Rail Syn. 357. 



y. G. pimpinellse folio. Dill, in Raii Syn. 358. Giss. 173. 



G. robertianum. Riv. Pentap. Irr. i. 114. 



Erodium pimpinellae folium. Sibtli. 211. 



In waste ground frequent. 



j6. In barren sandy places, chiefly near the sea. 



y. Near Hackney. Dillenius. About Oxford. Sibth. On sandy 

 ground near the sea j or on a chalky soil. 



Annual. June — September. 



Root tap-shaped, whitish. Herb somewhat hairy and viscid, dis- 

 agreeably scented, more or less. Stems procumbent, round, 

 or a little angular, hairy, mostly branched, leafy, various in 

 number and length. Leaves alternate towards the root -, upper 

 ones often opposite ; leaflets deeply pinnatifid, acutely and va- 

 riously cut. Stipules opposite, ovate, acute, thin and pellucid. 

 Fl. in stalked umbels, opposite to. the alternate leaves, otherwise 

 axillary. Bracteas under the partial stalks, membranous, jagged. 

 Pet. rose-coloured, with 3 dark lines at the base j in a nearly 

 regular j in /3 white -, in y 2 or 3 of them marked each with a 

 green depression, towards the claw, but this circumstance is 

 extremely variable. Filam. all simple. Caps, single-seeded, 

 bristly with reflexed hairs. 



2. E. moschatum. Musky Stork's -bill. 



Stems depressed, hairy. Stalks many-flowered. Leaves 

 pinnate ; leaflets nearly sessile, elliptical, unequally cut. 

 Perfect stamens toothed at the base. 



E.moschatum. Fl.Br.728. Engl. Bot. v. \3.t. 902. Willd.Sp.Pl 



V. 3. 631. DeCand. Prodr. v. 1 . 647. 

 Geranium moschatum. Linn. Sp. PL 951. Huds. 300. Jacq. Hort, 



Find, v.l.t. 55. Cavan. Diss. 227. t. 94./ 1 . Riv. Pentap. Irr. 



t.\\2. Ger.Em.94\.f. RaiiSyu.358. Bauh. Hist. v. 3.479, f. 

 G. n. 945. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 407. 

 G. tertium Plinii, Acus muscata. Dalech. Hist. 1277./. 



In mountainous pastures. 



Between Bristol and St. Vincent's rocks. Ray. Very common in 

 Craven, Yorkshire. Dr. Lister. On Shotover hill, near Oxford. 

 Bishop of Carlisle. On Ampthill warren, Bedfordshire. Rev. Dr. 

 Abbot. In the mountainous pastures of Yorkshire and West- 

 moreland, more certainly wild perhaps than elsewhere, having 

 long been cultivated in gardens for its scent. 



