ERODIUM. 
E. guttatum is sub-shrubby, with stems simple or branching, and 
more or less leafy all the way up. The leaves are silky-downy, grey- 
green, oval heart-shaped, with rather faint fat lobes scalloped at the 
edge. The flower-stalks are some 3 inches long, carrying two or three 
blossoms equal to the last, pink but spotted. This is found all over 
the South Mediterranean range, with varieties #. g. Malopo and 
EH. g. subacaule. 
E. pachyrrhizon comes from Algiers and is therefore probably not of 
much use: it is like a taller 7. Gussonei, but with few basal leaves 
and these soon dying. 
Group II. 
Same habit: leaves never silky. 
E. asplenioeides has a fat stock, and all its leaves are huddled at 
the base, being of a long heart-shape, deeply lobed and scallopy- 
toothed, clothed in short pressed down with short woolly hairs on 
both surfaces, and with the two basal lobes often cut to the very 
stem. Up from among these rise the bare flower-scapes, from 2 to 7 
inches in height, carrying some half a dozen blossoms or less, with 
the petals all equal in size, and their colour of violet-pink. (From 
Tunis to the Sierra Nevada.) 
E. atlanticum, from Atlas, is much the same, but a good deal larger, 
E. Gaillardotit, a2 very humble and quite dwarf flexuous weakling, 
with the stems dividing into two, and at times branching. The lower 
leaves are on long stems, oblong heart-shaped, and scalloped, but 
unlobed, while some of them are just cut into three lobes (of which 
the end one is much the largest and sometimes seems to have a foot- 
stalk of its own), and these lobed again into threes. The whole growth 
is hoary-grey, with heads of pale~pink blossoms (in the sunny rocks 
above Damascus). 
E. montanum is yet more like a velvet-leaved Pelargonium, about 
half a foot or a foot high, and branching, clothed in glistering bristles, 
and with a great number of leaves at the base, fattish and heart- 
shaped. The flowers are purple-violet, with all the petals equal, and 
are carried in heads of six or eight. (West Algiers.) 
E. pelargoniifolium, another leafy species, woody, and with many 
trunks and shoots. The leaves are long, heart-shaped, but pointed, 
and not deeply lobed, scalloped at the edge, and, like the whole plant, 
more or less clothed all over in glandular hairs. (From the lower 
mountain regions of Cilicia, with flowers as in HE. Gussonet.) (Bot. 
Mag., 5206.) 
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