198 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



sepals, weclgeshaped-ol)ovate, obcordate at the apex, ciliated above 

 the claw, niaments glabrous. Carpels transversely wrinkled with 

 prominent ridges, glabrous, keeled on the back. Seeds smooth. 



In meadows, hedgebanks, and by roadsides and waste places. 

 Very common and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual or Biennial. 

 Sjiring to xVutumn. 



Kesembles G. pyrenaicum, but smaller. Tap-root much more 

 slender, and the rhizome present only in those plants which do 

 not flower until the second year. Stems 6 to 18 inches long, 

 Aveak. Root leaves 1 to 2 inches in diameter ; the segments with ^»|| 

 narrower lobes than in G. pyrenaicum, and entire (not crenate).jU 

 Peduncles of the upper flowers shorter than their pedicels. Flowers^^^ 

 much smaller, f to ^ inch across, of a paler and I'edder purple, 

 or purplish rose - colour. Carpels conspicuously transversely 

 wrinkled, and Avitliout hairs. Hairs of the stem, peduncles, 

 pedicels and calyx long and white, rather close. Glandular hairs 

 on the pedicels, peduncles and sepals fewer. Bracts much shorter 

 and broader. 



Soft Crane's Bill. 



French, Geranium Mollet. German, Weicher Kranicltschnubel. 

 This species is also called " Dove's Foot Craue's Bill." 



SPECIES VIII.— G ERANIUM PUSILLUM. Linn. 



Plate CCC. 



Jieich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Ilelv. Vol. V. Gcran. Tab. CXC. Fig. 4877. 

 G. rotundifolinm, Fiies, Nov. Fi. Suec. 1. [>. 212. 



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

 dichotomously branched, finely hairy or sub-glabrous. Radical 

 leaves stalked, roundish, deeply 7- to 9-cleft, with the segments 

 scarcely contiguous, wedge-shaped, truncate and irregularly cut or 

 lobed at the apex ; lobes longer than broad, rather obtuse or 

 rounded; upper leaves resembling the others, but semicircular- 

 reniform in outline, with the segments and the lobes at their apex 

 much narrower ; uppermost leaves with 6 sim^fle lobes. Plowers 

 very numerous, in an irregular dichotomous cyme, the ultimate 

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

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

 Petals nearly equalling the sepals, wedgeshaped-obovate, deeply 

 emarginate at the apex, ciliated above the claw. Filaments ciliated 

 at the base. Carpels without transverse Avrinkles, downy, keeled on 

 the back. Seeds smooth. 



