MONADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Geraniunté 
591 
= — kidney-shaped, 7: or’ 5- iotabie lebes. wadge- pha 
liu 
haped, 3-cleft, bluntish: calyx awnl ess? seed-coat 
bat 
(Cavanill, diss. t. 82. fo 14) on Gmelin’ s isohunt 2 
This plant seems to have been sopiper ried sometimes with 
the molle, and sometimes with the rotundifolium, It differs 
from the former in its payer Belge hairy and not pins 
from the latter in its awnless calyx and its notched petals, 
have no doubt but it is the G. pusi//um of Linneus, Rs been 
in Ray 16. 2. (a) and (6); though that being a dwarf or 
starved specimen has occasioned an improper trivial name to be 
applied to the species, and which, if continued, would infallibly 
occasion a repetiti ion of the se doubts and “aiculee which ° 
have hitherto attended the su 
Lam indebted to Mr. oe for a full grown specimen of 
this plant, as wellas for the following description of it. 
root throws out many cylindrical much ‘branched stems, 
banc age & pare Calyx ag Sorting. Petals in- 
versely heart-shaped, bluish purple, notched; claws upright, 
the length of the calyx. Stamens distinct at the base, 5 
With and 5 without anthers. nigel even, ss with 
short bristles pointing upwards. Seeds smooth. bs. Varies 
with leaves alternate towards the tops of ‘ay nim branches, 
and with 3 or sometimes 4 flowers on a fruit-stalk. Mr, Rosson. 
ae malvefolium, Scor. but excluding his parent to Vail- 
{ Hedges, and — ee as common ato Darlington as 
the = molle, Mir. Ronson. } 
tr. 1. pusillum i Ten tem sean: leaves kidney- 
shined fingered ; lobes s strap pass acu 
E. bot. 385—Vaill. Ls I—Ray Syz. 16. 2 4, b, 
About 2 or 3 inches hi igh. Leaves small, Bios. bluish, eer 
4mall, j Ze equal. Found in situations by no mean 
whence it cannot be thought merely a variety of the G. 
rendfli Dita. i R, Syn. Resembling the G. rotund: fo- 
tum but smaller, Lobes of the leaves acute, not blunt, Petals 
dloven, blue. Gabe awnless. Linn. Stem and branches co- 
Vered with a very short down; extremely soft and velvet-like 
