-^2 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



at the base, enlarged and pyramidal in fruit from their recurved 

 margins forming angles. Carpels with few or no hairs and a 

 distinct keel. 



Long-stalked Crane's Bill. 



Frencli, Giranimn Colomhin. German, Trauhen Kranichschnahel. 



Section II.— ROBERTIANUM. Ficard. 



Calyx erect in flower, pyramidal in fruit. Claw of the petal as 

 long as or longer than the lamina, which is rounded at the apex. 

 Carpels breaking away from their beaks when ripe. 



SPECIES XII.— G ERANIUM LUCIDUM. Linn. 

 Plate CCCIV. 

 Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Geran. Tab. CLXXXVII. Fig. 4872. 



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

 slightly dichotomously branched, glabrous. Radical leaves soon 

 withering, stalked, roundish-reniform, 5- or 7-cleft with the segments 

 contiguous, obovate-truncate, 3-lobed with the lobes crenate, 

 slightly apiculate ; stem leaves pentagonal, divided like the root 

 leaves, but with the segments narrower ; uppermost leaves angu- 

 lated-reniform, more deeply divided ; all shining and nearly 

 glabrous. Flowers rather numerous, in dichotomous cymes. 

 Peduncles in the forks of tbe stem and axils of the upper leaves, 

 2-flowered. Bracts lanceolate. Calyx 5-angled, with the angles 

 winged. Sepals Avithout hairs, unequal ; the two outer ones ovate- 

 accLiminate, shortly awned, with the midrib prominent and the two 

 lateral ribs winged ; the third exterior, with midrib permanent, and 

 one lateral rib winged; the two inner ones lanceolate, obtuse 

 and shortly-awned, membranous, with a green keel and no lateral 

 wings. Petals longer than the sepals, with slender connivent claws 

 and spreading oblong-oval laminae. Carpels reticulated and keeled 

 on the back, obliquely wrinkled on the sides; breaking away 

 entirely from their beaks. Seeds smooth. 



In woods and shady places, preferring to grow on rocky debris 

 and wall-tops. Rather sparingly but generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual or Biennial. 

 Spring to Autumn, 



Stems numerous, decumbent at the base, nearly simple or once 

 or twice forked. Radical leaves 1 to 2 inches across, on stalks 3 to 

 G inches long, soon withering ; stem leaves all opposite, the lower 



