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10. 6f. pusillum (Small-flowered Crane's-bill). 

 Downy with soft hair. Leaves roundish, lobed, and 

 cut ; petals notched ; stamens 5 ; capsules keeled, downy, 

 not wrinkled ; seeds smooth. Waste ground ; common. 

 Eesembling G. molle in habit, but smaller. Fl. all the 

 summer. Annual. 



11. G. dissectum (Jagged-leaved Crane's-bill). Sterns 

 spreading, hairy ; leaves roundish, more or less hairy, 

 variously divided into numerous jagged, narrow seg- 

 ments ; sepals with long points ; petals notched ; cap- 

 sules scarcely wrinkled, hairy ; seeds dotted. Fields and 

 waste ground. Distinguished by its deeply cut, hairy, 

 not downy leaves, and the exceedingly short pedicels. 

 Flowers rose-coloured. Fl. all the summer. Annual. 



12. G. columbinum (Long-stalked Crane's-bill). 

 Stems spreading, roughish with short hairs ; leaves 

 deeply 5-lobed, the lobes cut into many long, narrow, 

 acute segments ; flower-stalks very long ; sepals with 

 long points ; capsules smooth. Waste ground ; not very 

 common. Distinguished from the last by its larger 

 blueish rose-coloured flowers, which grow on very long 

 and slender stalks, and by its smooth capsules. Fl. 

 June August. Annual. 



* Particular care should be taken when comparing 

 specimens with the above descriptions, to examine the 

 roo^-leaves ; for the stem-leaves vary even on the same 

 plant to such a degree as to defy description. 



2. ERODIUM (Stores-bill). 



1. E. cicutdrium (Hemlock Stork's-bill). Stems 

 prostrate, hairy ; stalks many-flowered ; leaves pinnate ; 

 leaflets sessile, pinnatifid, cut. Waste places, especially 

 near the sea ; common. A straggling plant, with much 

 of the habit of the preceding genus, but distinguished 

 at first sight by its pinnate leaves, and umbels of lilac 

 (sometimes white) flowers, the petals of which soon fall 

 off. Fl. all the summer. Annual. 



2. E. moschdtum (Musk Stork's-bill). Stems pro- 



