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ones on rather long stalks, the upper ones on much shorter stalks. 

 Peduncles equalling or exceeding the leaves, longer than the 

 pedicels, with a strip of very short hairs. Eiowers |- to f incli 

 across, rose-colour. Calyx minutely glandular, ovate-pyramidal, 

 transversely wrinkled, with 5 prominent angles and 5 intermediate 

 ridges, the latter formed hy the midribs of the sepals. Fruit, 

 including the beak, f to f inch long. Beak hispid towards the 

 apex. Carpels separating from their beaks when ripe and falling 

 away, fawn-coloured, deeply reticulated, with raised lines passing 

 into faint transverse wrinkles towards the inner edges, glabrous 

 or slightly hairy towards the apex. Whole plant rather succulent, 

 frequently tinged with bright red. Stems glabrous or with a lon- 

 gitudinal strip clothed with short hairs towards the top. Leaves 

 shining, glabrous, rarely with a few short hairs. 



Shining Crane's Sill. 



French, Geranium Luisant. German, Gliinzender Kraniclvschnabel. 



SPECIES XIIL— GERANIUM ROBERTIANUM. Linn. 



Plates CCCV. CCCVI. 

 Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Geran. Tab. CLXXXVII. Fig. 4871. 



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

 dichotomously branched, slightly hairy or glabrous. Radical leaves 

 soon withering, stalked, pentagonal-5-lobed in outline, with 3- 

 stalked divisions ; divisions rhomboidal-ovate in outline ; the lateral 

 ones generally 2-partite ; all bi-pinnatifid with the ultimate lobes 

 not much longer than broad, apiculate, slightly hairy or almost 

 glabrous. Stem leaves similar to the radical ones, but larger and 

 with broader segments. Flowers rather numerous, in dichotomous 

 cymes. Peduncles in the forksof the stem and in the axilsof the up^^er 

 leaves 2-flowered. Bracts ovate. Calyx 10-angled, with the angles 

 not winged. Sepals hairy or sub-glabrous ; the two outer 3-nerved ; 

 the third outer one 2-nerved, acuminate at the apex and awned ; the 

 two inner membranous, with only the mid-nerve prominent, trun- 

 cate-emarginate at the ajiex and awned. 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 from their beaks, but 

 remaining attached to themr by long silky hairs. Seeds smooth. 



Var. a, genuinmn. 

 G. Robertianum, Jord. Bor. Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. p. 1.31. 



Plate CCCV. 

 Plant glandular-hairy. Sepals with gland-tipped persistent 



