GERAXIACE^. 199 



In hedgebanks, roadsides, and waste places. Common, and 

 generally distributed except in tbe extreme Nortli of Scotland, but 

 often passed over from its resemblance to G. niolle. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Spring to Autumn. 



Extremely like G. molle, but tbe segments even of tbe root- 

 leaves are not contiguous ; tbe flowers are smaller and paler in 

 colour; the autber-bearing stamens often only 5 in number; and 

 tbe whole plant less bairy. Tbe very dilFerent carpels, are bowever, 

 by far tbe best means of separating tbe two ; in tbe present species 

 there are none of tbe transverse ridges which are so conspicuous in 

 G. molle, and instead of being glabrous they are downy with sbort 

 hairs. 



Small-fiowered Crane's Bill. 



Frencli, Gcrauiu.m Fluet. German, Niedriyer Kranichschnabel. 



SPECIES IX.-GERANIUM ROT UNDIP O LIUM. Linn. 



Plate CCCI. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Geran. Tab. CXC. Fig. 4878. 

 G. viscidulum, Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec. I. p. 217. 



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

 dicbotomou.sly branched, bairy. Radical leaves stalked, roundish, 

 5- to 7-cleft, witb the incisions between the segments shallow ; the 

 segments contiguous, broadly wedge-sbaped, truncate and irregularly 

 cut and crenate at tbe apex. Stem leaves resembling tbe root leaves, 

 but on shorter stalks ; tbe uppermost smaller, semicircular-reniform, 

 witb 5 not contiguous ovate or elliptical entire lobes. Flowers 

 numerous, in an irregular dicbotomous cyme, tbe ultimate branches 

 of whicb are racemose. Peduncles in the forks of the stem and 

 axils of the leaves, 2-flowered. Bracts lanceolate-acuminate. Petals 

 balf as long again as tbe calyx, wedgeshaped-oblanceolate, obtuse 

 or rounded (not emarginate) at tbe apex, glabrous above tbe claw. 

 Eilaments glabrous. Carpels without transverse wrinkles, keeled 

 on tbe back, bairy. Seeds pitted. 



In bedgebanks, waste places, and by roadsides. Ratber rare, 

 and probably native only in the southern balf of England ; for 

 altbougb tbe plant has been gathered as far North as Northumber- 

 land, it bas probably been introduced witb ballast. 



England, Ireland. Annual or Biennial. Spring to Autumn. 



In size and general habit this species closely resembles tbe two 

 preceding, but tlie leaves are much less deeply divided, and the 



