194 liNGLTSII EOTAXY. 



speciraeus only from Kirkling-ton, Yorkskire ; hut it has heen 

 I'ejDovted from other places iu that county, and from Cumberland 

 and Hertfordshire. 



[England]. Perennial. Summer. 



Stem 1 foot to 18 inches high, flexuous. Radical leaves 3 or 4 

 inches across, with footstalks 4 or 5 inches long; iipper leaves 

 much smaller. Peduncles very long. Pedicels short. Flowers 

 1 inch across, pale purple. Sepals oblong-obtuse, awned, Avith 

 scarious margins. Petals rather suddenly enlarged towards the 

 tip, connivent at the base and spreading at tlie ajDCX, so that the 

 corolla is bell-shaped. Plant light green, glabrous, except the 

 peduncles, pedicels, and base of the sepals, which are downy. 

 The fruit is also downy, and the margins of the carpels hairy. The 

 bracts are longer and more acuminate at the apes than in the 

 other rhizomatous British species of Geranium, with none of which, 

 indeed, can it be confounded. 



Knotty Crane's Bill. 



French, Geranium Noueux. 



SPECIES IV.— GERANIUM SYLVATICUM. Lina. 



Plate CCXCVI. 

 Reich. le. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Geran. Tab. CXCIII. Fig. 4882. 



Pootstock horizontal, premorse, rather short, very thick, 

 densely scaly, with very short branches. Stems erect, simple beloAV, 

 dicliotomously branched above, with short hairs. Radical leaves on 

 long stalks, angulated-roundish in outline, deeply 7- to 9-cleft, with 

 the segments rhomboidal, contiguous, acute, irregularly cut and 

 coarsely serrate at the margins ; lower stem leaves alternate, on 

 short stalks, resembling the radical ones, but with narrower, shorter 

 and more deeply-cut lobes ; upper stem leaves sub-sessile ; upper- 

 most ones with the lobes 5 or 3 in number and much smaller, 

 riowers numerous, in a dichotomous cyme. Peduncles in the 

 forks of the stem and terminal, 2-fiowered, not deflexed after 

 flowering. Petals mvich longer than the sepals, obovate, truncate 

 and rej)and at the apex. Pilaments tapering gradually from the 

 base to the apex. Carpels hairy, smooth. Seeds smooth, but 

 appearing finely reticulated-striate under a powerful lens. 



In woods and hilly pastures. Common in the Xorth of England 

 and in Scotland, but rare South of Yorkshire and Lancashire, 

 though reported from the counties of Norfolk, Warwick, and 

 Worcester. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



