204 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



liaii's. Lamina of the petal as long as or a little longer than the 

 claw. Carpels with deciduous hairs, reticulated. 



Var. 0, modestum. 



G. modestum, Jord. Cat. Gi\ Jard. Gren. 1849, p. 16 ] Boreati, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. 



ed. iii. Vol. II. p. 131. 

 G. Raii, Lindley ? Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 57. 

 G. Robertianiim, /3 maritimum, JJab. 1 Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 66. 



Sub-glabrons, with the pedicels and calices glandular-pubescent; 

 the gland-tipped hairs intermixed with longer woolly ones. Lamina 

 of the petal shorter than the claw. Carpels glabrous, sparingly 

 wrinkled with transverse oblique-branched lines. 



Var. 7, purpureum. 



Tlate CCCVI. 



G. purpureum, Vill. Forst. in Eng. Bot. Sup. No. 2648. Lowe, Man. Fl. Mad. p. 85 ? 

 G. ruiiiutiflorum, Jord. Pug. PI. Nov. p. 39. 



Sub-glabrous, with the pedicels and sepals rather sparingly 

 glandular-pubescent. Lamina of the petals shorter than the claw. 

 Carpels glabrous, reticulated on the back, the sides wrinkled with 

 oblique ridges. Leaves more finely divided, and with the lobes 

 narrower and more diverging than in varieties a and 3. 



Var. a in bushy places, shady hedgebanks, and waste stony 

 places. Common and generally distributed. Var. I have only 

 gathered on the shingly beach at Grand Cobo, Guernsey ; but I also 

 possess a specimen from Torquay, gathered by Mr. C. Eyre Parker. 

 Var. y is common on shingle in the South of England; I have 

 found it near Kingsdown, Kent, and at Shoreham, in Sussex. The 

 " English Botany" figure was drawn from a plant gathered at Stokes 

 Bay, Hampshire. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual or Biennial. 

 Spring to Autumn. 



A diffusely branched plant. Var. a with the stems 1 to 2 feet 

 long. Leaves \\ to 3 inches across, with the main segments sepa- 

 rated by an obtuse-angled sinus. Peduncles equalling or exceeding 

 the leaves. Elowers ^ to f inch across, reddisli, having 3 white 

 stripes on each petal alternating witli dark rose-coloured stripes. 

 Carpels brown, attached to their beaks by long silky hairs. Whole 

 plant hairy ; the hairs on the stem, petioles, peduncles and sepals 

 articulated, and intermixed with shorter gland-tipped ones. 



Var. 3, which I can identify with G. modestum of Jordan 

 (having an authentic specimen of that plant), is much more 

 glabrous, tinged with deeper red, but the calyx has the long woolly 



