MONADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Geranium. 235 



is better known or defined than our sylvaticurrij nor could Mn. 

 Rose, my first botanical precej^tor, have suspected it, even at 

 the time he w^rote, to have been the palustre, had he ever seen a 

 specimen of the latter, or its figure in the Horius Elthamensis, 

 which I know he had not. 



4. G, pratense. Blue Meadow Crane's-bill. 



Stalks two-flowered. Leaves in about seven deep segments, 

 sharply pinnalifid and serrated. Capsules hairy all over. 

 Stamens smooth, much dilated at the base. 



G. pratense. Linn. Sp. PL 954. PVilld. v. 3. 705. Fl. Br. 732. 



Engl. Bot. V. 6. t. 404. Curt. Loud. fasc. 4. t. 49. Dicks. H. Sice. 



fasc. \6. IS. Hook. Scot. 206. DeCand. Prodr.v. \. 641. Cavan. 



Diss. 210. t. 87./. 1 . Ehi'h. PI. Off. 457. 

 G. n. 931. Halt. Hist. V. 1.403. 

 G. batrachoides. Raii Syn.360. Ger. Em.942.f. Bauh. Hist. 



v,3.p.2.475.f. DalecLHist. 1279./. 

 G. quintum. Fuchs. Hist. 208. f. Ic. 1 18./. 

 G. quartum. Matth. Valgr. i?. 2. 2 1 0. /. Camer. Epit. 602. f. 

 Crow Crane's-bill. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 65./ 7. 



In rich, rather moist, pastures and thickets, especially in the hilly 

 parts of England ; also at Battersea, Harrow, and other places 

 not far from London. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Larger in every part than the last, especially the ^oi^ers, which 

 are of a fine blue, not purple, and are often irregularly striped 

 or blotched with white, sometimes entirely white ; and they 

 have been found double, near Athol house, Scotland, by the 

 late Lady Charlotte Murray. The leaves are much more deeply 

 divided than those of G. sylvaticum, their lobes more regularly 

 and acutely pinnatifid. The stamens differ materially, being 

 longer and more slender, as well as quite smooth, but espe- 

 cially in being greatly dilated into a triangular figure at the 

 base. Caps, even, hairy all over. Seeds dotted. 



5. G. rohcrl'ianiuii. Stinking Crane's-bill. Herb 



Robert. 



Stalks two-flowered. Leaves somewhat pedate, pinnatifid, 

 five-angled. Calyx with ten angles. Capsules wrinkled, 

 simply keeled. 



G. robertianum. Linn. Sp.Pl.Tzib. mild. v.3.7\4. H. Br. 732. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 21./. 1 48r.. ( 'urt. Loud. fasc. 1 . /. 52. Hook. Scot. 

 207. DeCand. Prodr. v. 1 . 64 L (amin. J)L'is. 215. /. 86./. L 

 FL Dan. t. G94. Bull. Fr. t. 20 1 . Ii<iii .S//;>.35S. Ger. Em. 939./ 

 Dod. Pcmpf. 62. f. Bauh. Hist. v. o. p'.2. 180. f. 



G. n. 943. HalLHisf.v. 1.406. 



