GERANIUM. 
regularly incised leaves in a tuft, each on a foot-stalk from 3 to 8 
inches long. The leafy branching stems are about 6 inches high, set 
with leaves, and bearing big flowers of pale rose-purple. (From the 
Central Rockies, as far as the coast of California.) 
G. grandiflorum slinks into this category by missing the full stature 
of G. pratense, being a weakly or decumbent plant with clear-blue, 
white-eyed flowers of enormous size, more or less in clusters at the end 
of 10-inch stems, and twice the size of G. pratense’s. (It has a specially 
lovely dwarfed form, G. g. alpinum, from the upper alps of Turkestan.) 
G. Kotschyi—Though G. tuberosum has little charm, better things 
may be said of its alpine sub-species, which, high on Elburs, sprouts 
from a round dark bulb like a cyclamen’s, and sends up a twisting stem 
of only 4 inches, carrying a close spike or pyramid of large rose-purple 
blossoms, which, like those of G. tuberosum, have the lobes so deeply 
cleft that they look as if the flowers had ten petals. 
G. Lozanii, in the bushy places of the high Mexican Alps, has the 
whole habit of G. caespitosum, but the enormous flowers are golden. 
G. minimum is the smallest of all, a lichen-like scab of smooth, 
unsilvered, hairless foliage, jewelled with white cups of large size for 
a plant so microscopic. A high-alpine from the Andes, with other 
kindred, of which the best are GG. cucullatum, stramineum, sericeum, 
Lechleri, and Ruizit. 
G. moupinense is precisely like our own neat glossy G. lucidum in 
leaves and habit, but the flowers are of twice the size, pale purple, 
and like those of G. pratense, borne on twin pedicels of which one, 
however, outgrows the other. (From the same sort of situation that 
G. lucidum affects, in the shady mountain rocks of Szechuan.) 
G. muscoideum is like nothing so much as a dome of Androsace 
helvetica studded with the white stars of a Potentilla ; a minute and 
lovely tuft of silver silk, shining on the mountains of Peru. 
G. nanum is a quite tiny dwarfed version of G. cinerewm from 
Djebel Ghat in Morocco. 
G. napuligerum is a fine species, with a sort of bulb for a root. In 
habit it often suggests G. cinerewm, but with larger, brighter pinkish 
flowers on weakly flopping or ascending stems of 8 or 10 inches. 
G. nivale is, however, the last word that this race has to speak in 
the way of beauty, and that word unfortunately is spoken to the deaf 
winds high on the limestone crests of La Oroya in the Peruvian Andes, 
12,000 feet above the steamers passing far away at sea. Figure a 
very dense sheet of minute silver-sheening, fleshy foliage, like 
that of some G. argenteum fed for many years on gin, and reduced to 
the most Lilliputian proportions ; then, into that sheet and all over it, 
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