THE 



SHINING CEANE'S-BILL 



AND 



EAGGED EOBIN. 



Geranium lucidum. Nat. Ord., Geraniacece- 



Lychnis Flos-cucuH. 

 Nat. Ord., Caryophyttaeea. 



S possibly some of our readers 

 may not have sufficient know- 

 . ledge of the subject to dis- 

 criminate correctly between 

 the two species represented 

 so as to be able to say which 

 is which, we may well preface 

 our remarks on the plate by 

 pointing out that the plant 

 with small flowers and rounded 

 leaves is the crane's-bill ; the large- 

 flowered plant, the ragged robin. 

 At the same time we imagine that 

 any one who notices the general 

 form of the meadow crane's-bill or the 

 herb-Robert, plants which form the subject 

 of other illustrations in our series, will find 

 little difficulty in detecting a sufficiently satisfactory like- 

 ness to those plants in the structure of one of the two 

 here delineated to enable them to give a shrewd guess at 

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