ERODIUM. 
H. pet. viscidum is a sticky variant of this. F. pet. lucidum is a 
smoother bluey-grey one. LH. pet. crispum is a specially curly-hairy 
one. 
E. supracanum is a species of the rarest loveliness, having flat 
foliage, rather like those of the last, not crimped and feathered so much 
as in some, and all overlaid with a plating of the most delicate silver. 
They are very nearly hairless too ; and above them come 4- to 6-inch 
flower-heads on bending stalks, in the most delicately contrasting 
beauty of bright unspotted equal-petalled pink butterflies, fine and 
round. This is only found on the Montserrat and neighbouring hills. 
H. trichomanefolium is all densely clothed in glands, green and 
downy, otherwise with the fine foliage much as in the last. The 
flowers, in heads of some three or seven on stems of about 8 inches, 
are likewise equal-petalled, spotless and pink; but they do not quite 
so far exceed the calyx, and they are veined with deeper colour. 
(High places of Hermon and Lebanon—with an albino form.) 
Group V. 
Same habits, but no lobules between the featherings of the leaves. 
H. astragaloeides, HL. daucoeides, and E. carvifolium are species of 
no worth as compared with the rest, their pink blooms having a 
tendency to remain shut up in a closed cup-form, instead of opening out. 
EH, Manescavi is a large coarse rankness universally known in 
gardens and rather showy, though of small attraction, with jungles 
of aromatic stickyish green ferny foliage, long and large, and large 
flowers of a heavy flaring magenta-rose. It is a comfort to learn, 
then, that this is not typical H. Manescavi, but its variety justly 
named Juxurians. The true or type-plant sounds much more to be 
desired. For H. Manescavi genuinum or supinum is quite a neat 
dwarf thing, not more than some 6 inches high or less. Nor should 
this be unattainable, as all the forms of this species are native to the 
Pyrenees. 
HE. romanum (Bot. Mag., 377); stemless, with the stalk of the 
flower-heads rising some 6 inches or so, carrying a head of half a dozen 
blossoms of fine bright pink on delicate foot-stalks. The whole 
clump is hoary to the point of silveriness, and the leaves are cut to 
the base in simple fat undivided lobes. There is a yet hoarier 
variety, H. r. canescens, with longer foot-stalks, and foliage more 
deeply lobed. (All round the Mediterranean basin.) 
HE. rupicola, very near the last indeed, but with rather larger 
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