MONADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Geranium. 239 



9. (j . pyrenaicum. Perennial Dove's-foot Crane's-bill. 



Stalks two-flowered. Petals twice the length of the calyx. 

 Leaves kidney-shaped, lobed. Capsules keeled, even, 

 somewhat downy. Seeds without dots. 



G. pyrenaicum. Linn, Mant. 97 and 257. M'UlcL Sp.PL v. 3. 708. 



FL Br. 735. Engl. Bot. v. 6. t. 405. Huds. 302. Curt. Lond.fasc. 



3. f. 42. Light/. 367. Hook. Scot. 206. DeCand. Prodr. v. \. 



643. Burm. Ger. 27. Cavan. Diss. 203. t. 79./. 2. 

 G. perenne. Huds. ed. 1. 265. 

 G. n. 12. Ger. Gallopr. 434. t. 1 6./. 2. 

 G. columbinum perenne pyrenaicum maximum. Tourn. Inst, 268. 



Herb. Tourn. 



In meadows and pastures. 



By the river between Bingley and Keighley, Yorkshire j also near 

 Enfield, and about Brompton, Chelsea, and elsewhere near 

 London. Huds. About Edinburgh. Dr. Parsons and others. 

 At East Winch and West Bilney, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Near 

 Oxford, iit the back of St. John's college. Mr. Woodward. 

 Perennial. June, July. 



Root tuberous, perennial. Stems 2 or 3 feet high, upright, leafy, 



branched, clothed with spreading, or somewhat defiexed, fine, 



soft hairs. Leaves deep green, finely hairy, rather soft to the 



touch J the lower ones on very long stalks, kidney-shaped, 2 or 



3 inches wide, lobed more or less deeply, the segments notched, 



rounded and bluntish ; upper ones opposite, on shorter stalks, 



with fewer, deeper, more spreading lobes. Stipulas broad, hairy, 



jagged at the points. FL light purple, much larger than those 



of G. molle. Cal. pointed, downy and somewhat fringed, scarcely 



half the length of the petals, which are inversely heart-shaped, 



with short very hairy claws. Stam. all perfect, but the 5 outer 



ones, as Mr. Curtis remarks, soon drop their anthers, whence 



they have been supposed originally imperfect. Caps, keeled, 



even, minutely downy all over when young, but subsequently 



becoming smoother. Seeds with a perfectly even surface. 



The ^ow;er6- are sometimes white. Linnceus confounded this with 



his molle originally, and it is also the large-flowered 7nulle of 



Mr. Curtis, found about Chelsea hospital. His figures of both 



are excellent, and he lias correctly described their capsules, 



though he did not contrast them in the specific characters, for 



which these parts alone are all-sufficient. 



In one of the Linnaean sj)ccimens I find a wrinkle or-two at each 



side of the keel, of some of the capsules, not of all, nor do these 



by any means resemble the copiously wrinkled capsules of G. 



molle. 



