GERANIE^. 53 



mucronate; surface thinly hairy above, below much 

 more so, and whitish ; margin often red. Flowers in 

 pairs or solitary on slender peduncles. Sepals H inch, 

 with three coarsely hairy nerves, strongly mucronate. 

 Petals Ys inch, pink or mauve. Carpels hairy; seeds 

 smooth, shining. Wight 111. i. t. 59. 



Fairly common near sholas on high elevations, but not 

 lower down or on the ghats to the north. Fyson 360, 689. 

 Bourne 14, 112. 



Gen. Dist. Kashmir, Himalayas 3 to 10,000 feet, and Khasia hills, and 

 on the higher peaks of Ceylon, Indo-China. 



ERODIUM. F.B.I. 32 IV. 



Stork' s-bill or Heron' s-bill. 

 Stamens five, fertile opposite the sepals and five- 

 sterile between them; glands five; beak of ovary 

 glabrous ; seed remaining in the carpel and buried by 

 the twisting of the beak. 



Species 60, mostly round the Mediterranean, a few also in the 

 South Africa, temperate America, and south-west Australia. 



Named from the Greek ejlodios, a Heron, to distinguish fro fn geranium 

 with which the species used to he linked. 



Erodium moschatum L'Heritier ; IV 6. Branches 

 stout; leaves alternate or opposite, pinnate; stipules 

 large, J4 inch scarious, those of the unopened leaves as 

 bud-scales ; leaflets obliquely ovate, sharply toothed. 

 Flowers umbelled on long peduncles ; bracts like the 

 stipules; pedicels Yz inch. Sepals 1/5 to J^ inch, five- 

 ribbed, pubescent. Tails of carpels I to 2 inches, with a 

 few long, yellow permanent bristles below, and many 

 much shorter hairs, above, not woolly ; when dry much 

 twisted, t. 40. 



A road-side plant of the Mediterranean region, and spread 

 from it over northern Europe, the Cape, North and South 

 America, and Australia. This appears to be the first record of 

 it on these hills ; probably a garden-escape. Fyson 2029. 



