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flower ; stem leaves shortly stalked, all opposite, 1-| to 2 inches 

 across, with the ultimate lobes of the pinnatitid segments long and 

 narrow. Flowers ^ to | inch across, bright red. Peduncles and 

 pedicels shorter than in most of the genus. Fruit with rather long 

 spreading hairs; those on the beak gland-tipped. Leaves rather 

 firm, deep green. Whole plant often tinged with red, clothed with 

 short rather stiff hairs. 



Jagged-leaved Crane's Bill. 



French, Geranium Decoupe. German, Schlitzhldtlriger Kraniclischnahel. 



SPECIES XL— GERANIUM COLUMBINUM. Linn. 



Plate CCCIII. 

 lieich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Geran. Tab. CLXXXIX. Fig. 4875. 



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

 slightly dichotomously branched, sparingly hairy or sub-glabrous. 

 Radical leaves stalked, angulated-roundish, 5- to 7-partite, or very 

 deeply 5- to 7-cleft, with the segments not contiguous, rhomboidal 

 in outline, deeply pinnatifid with the lobes strap-shaped and the 

 lower ones often again pinnatifid ; stem leaves similar to the radical 

 ones, hut with the lobes of the segments longer and narrower, and 

 generally simple ; uppermost leaves with the segments deeply 3-cleft 

 with the lobes very narrow. Flowers few, on solitary axillary pedun- 

 cles. .Peduncles 2-flowered, equalling or exceeding the leaves from 

 which they spring, rarely from the forks of the stem. Bracts linear- 

 acuminate. Sepals triangular-ovate, sub-cordate at the base, awned, 

 with the margins slightly recurved. Petals equalling the sepals, 

 wedgeshaped-obovate, truncate or slightly notched at the apex. 

 Filaments slightly ciliated below. Carpels smooth (not trans- 

 versely wrinkled), keeled on the back, glabrous. Seeds pitted. 



In thickets, pastures, and waste places. Rather rare, except- in 

 chalky districts, though found in most of the English counties. In 

 Scotland it occurs only on the debris of trap rocks : near Dumbar- 

 ton, in the Glasgow district ; Dalmahoy Hill, Edinburgh ; North 

 Queensferry and Orrock Hill, Fifeshire ; and in Forfarshire. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual or Biennial. 

 Spring to Autumn. 



Much like G. dissectum, but more glabrous and slender, with 

 the leaves on longer stalks, more decompoundly partite, more flaccid 

 in texture. The flowers are much fewer, larger, with the petals 

 purplish-rose, less spreading and much less deeply notched at the 

 apex. The sepals twice as long as those of G. dissectum, and broader 



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