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native in Yorksbire ; it is not uncommon about Edinburgh, but 

 only in places wbere it is not unlikely to have been introduced. 



England, Scotland ? Ireland. Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Tap-root long, tapering, blackish, terminating above in an 

 extremely short many-headed rootstock which is not premorse 

 as in the preceding species, as the root does not decay during 

 the life of the plant. Stems numerous, ascending or sub-erect, 

 often decumbent at the base, 6 inches to 2 feet long. Radical 

 leaves numerous, 1^ to 3 inches across, quite flat with the segments 

 nearly contiguous, on leafstalks 3 to 8 inches long; the upper 

 leaves become gradually smaller, and have the segments separated by 

 a triangular sinus, and terminated by 3 large teeth or small lobes. 

 Peduncles about as long as the pedicels, deflexed after flowering. 

 Elowers |^ to f inch across, bright reddish purple. Sepals lanceolate- 

 oval, scarcely mucronate. Emit f inch long. Stems, peduncles, 

 and bracts with spreading white hairs ; leaves and the margins of 

 the sepals with shorter adpressed ones ; besides which the stem, 

 peduncles and sepals are thickly clothed with extremely short 

 gland-tipped hairs. 



This species cannot be mistaken for any of the preceding, as 

 there is no horizontal premorse rhizome; indeed, in general habit 

 it closely approximates the annual species which follow, though 

 the flowers are larger than in any of them. 



Mountain Crands Bill. 



French, Geranium des Pyrhiets. German, Pyrervaisclwr Kranichschnahel. 



SPECIES VII.— GERANIUM MOLLE. Linn. 

 Plate CCXCIX. 

 Reich. Ic. PI. Germ, et Ilelv. Vol. V. Geran. Tab. CXCI. Fig. 4879. 



Tap-root annual or biennial. Stems ascending or decumbent, 

 dichotomously branched, hairy. Hadical leaves stalked, roundish, 

 deeply 7- to 9-cleft, with the segments contiguous, wedge-shai^ed, 

 truncate and irregularly cut or lobed at the apex ; lobes scarcely 

 longer than broad, rather obtuse or even rounded at the apex ; 

 upper leaves resembling the others, but semicircular-reniform in 

 outline, with the segments much narrower and having the lateral 

 lobes at the apex much smaller ; uppermost leaves with 5 simjile 

 lobes. Elowers very numerous, in an irregular dichotomous cyme, 

 the branches of which are racemose. Peduncles in the forks of 

 the stem and in the axils of the upper leaves, 2-flowered. Bracts 

 ovate-lanceolate. Petals as long as or half as long again as the 



