234 MONADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Geranium. 



Mr. Woodward. Withering. Between Hatfield and Welwyn, 

 Herts. Rev. Dr. Abbot. 



Perennial. May — August, 



Root slightly tuberous, rather creeping. Stems angular, about 18 

 inches high, erect, but weak, red, shining and swelled, both 

 above and below each joint. Leaves all opposite, dark green, 

 shining, minutely and sparingly hairy, mostly in 3 deep, point- 

 ed, cut and serrated lobes, the lower ones in 5 lobes, and with 

 longer stalks. Fl. purple, rather large, not numerous, on downy 

 partial stalks in pairs. Cal. with a long slender red point, and 

 3 downy ribs, to each leaf. Caps, elliptic-oblong, quite even, 

 without keels, finely downy, or minutely hairy, all over 3 their 

 awns somewhat downy, but not beset with long prominent hairs 

 as in Er odium. 



3. G. sylvaticu7n. Wood Crane's-bill. 



Stalks two-flowered, somewhat corymbose. Leaves about 



seven-lobed, cut and serrated. Capsules hairy all over. 



Stamens awl-shaped, fringed. 



G. sylvaticum. Linn. Sp, PL 954. Willd. v. 3. 703. Fl. Br. 73 J . 



Engl. Bot. v.l.t. 121. Hook. Scot. 206. DeCand. Prodr. v. 1 . 



641. 

 G. palustre ? Rose's Elem. append. 44\.t. 1 . 

 G. n. 932. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 403. 

 G. batrachoides montanum nostras. Rail Syn.36\. 

 G. batrachioides alterum. Ger. Em. 942. f. 

 Mountain Crow Crane's-bill. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 65./. 8. 



In woods, thickets, and pastures, chiefly in the north of England 

 and south of Scotland. 



At Spixworth, Norfolk. Mr. Humphrey. Near Lynn. Mr. Crowe. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root rather woody. Stems 2 or 3 feet high, erect, roundish, rough 

 with small deflexed hairs, much branched, leafy. Leaves sWghtly 

 palmate, with 5 or 7 deep lobes, coarsely cut and serrated, veiny, 

 finely hairy on both sides j the lowermost on long footstalks. 

 Fl. larger than either of the preceding, an inch or more in 

 breadth, of a fine light purple, with crimson veins. Cal. like 

 the last, but more hairy. Pet. entire, or slightly notched, hairy 

 at the claw. Stam. all nearly equal, awl-shaped, membranous 

 at the edges, fringed more than half way up. Caps, ovate, 

 keeled, even, not wrinkled, most hairy about the keel, marked 

 at each side, towards the top, with a brown rib. Seeds dotted. 



I have been sparing of synonyms, because of several foreign spe- 

 cies, nearly related to this, and occasionally confounded with it. 

 Cavanilles professes never to have seen G. sylvaticum. His 

 G. batrachioides. Diss. 211. t. 85./. 2, is more like pratense in 

 the form of its leaves, and in having large hluejlowers. Nothing 



