GERANIACE^. 191 



Section I.— EU-GERANIUM. Gr. & Godr. 



Calyx spreading in flower. Claw of the petals much shorter 

 than the lamina, which is generally truncate or notched at the apex. 



SPECIES I.-GERANIUM SANGUINEUM. Linn. 



Plate CCXCIIL 

 Beich. Tc. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Geran. Tab. CXCVII. Fig. 4894. 



Rootstock horizontal, premorse, elongated, thick, scaly, with 

 long branches. Stems erect or decumbent, dichotomously branched, 

 hairy. Leaves all opposite and similar, roundish-angular in outline, 

 5- to 7- partite, with each of the segments wedge-shaped and 3-cleft. 

 Elowers solitary. Peduncles from the axils of the leaves, rarely 

 from the forks of the stem, 1-flowered. Petals much longer than 

 the sepals, notched at the apex. Carpels hairy, smooth. Seeds 

 very finely pitted. 



Var. a, genuinuin. 



Stem erect or ascending, sparingly hairy. Leaves with the 

 segments divided neai-ly to the base ; ultimate lobes with straight 

 sides. 



Var. ^, prostraUmi. 



G. laticastriense, ^Vith. ed. iii. Vol. III. p. 000. 

 G. prostratum, Cav. Lindl. Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 58. 



Stems decumbent, copiously hairy. Leaves with the segments 

 divided two - thirds or three - quarters down towards the base ; 

 Ultimate lobes with curved sides. 



Var. a on limestone and trap rocks. Var. /3 on sandy sea 

 shores. Rather rare, but pretty generally distributed, except in 

 the extreme North of Scotland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Tap-root soon decaying, so that it disappears in old plants. 

 Rootstock branched, in var. a. seldom exceeding 3 or 4 inches 

 (but in var. the branches are sometimes nearly 1 foot long in old 

 plants), brown, sparingly, scaly excejjt at the apex where it is 

 densely so. Stems dichotomously branched, somewhat geniculate, 

 1 to 2 feet long in var. a, generally shorter in var. 3. Leaves all 

 nearly alike in size and shape, 1\ to 2 inches across, with the primary 

 segments scarcely contiguous ; segments generally 7, each divided 

 to about the middle into 3 strap-shaped lobes, which are longer and 



