THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Geranium. continued. 



August. I. roundish, five-lobed, shining. Stem spreading in every 

 direction, h. 6in. to 12in. Europe (Britain), North Africa, Asia. 

 Annual or biennial. (Sy. En. B. 304.) 



G. macrorhizon (large-rooted).* fl. deep red or bright purple ; 

 petals entire, a little reflexed ; calyces globose, inflated. May 

 to July. I. smooth, five-parted, with the lobes toothed at the 



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apex. Stem suffruticose at the base, dichotflmous at the apex. 

 h. 1ft. South Europe, 1576. (B. M. 2420.) 



G. maonlatum (spotted).* fl. pale lilac, varying in size ; petals 

 obovate, entire. Summer. I. three to five-parted, with deeply- 

 toothed lobes; radical ones on long stalks ; upper ones opposite, 

 sessile. Stem rather angular, erect, dichotomous, pubescent. 

 h. lift. North America, 1732. (B. M. PI. 42.) 



Geranium continued. 



diffuse, branched, h. 1ft. to 2ft. Europe (Britain), West Asia. 



A very handsome species. (Sy. En. B. 293.) 

 G. 8. lancastriensc (Lancaster). fl. flesh-coloured, with 



purple veins, large. 

 G. striatum (streaked).* /. pink, elegantly striped with darker 



veins ; petals emarginately two-lobed. May to October. I., lower 



ones five-lobed, upper ones three-lobed ; the lobes ovate, acute, 



deeply toothed. Stem round, decumbent. South Europe, 1629. 



(B. M. 55.) 

 G. sylvaticum (wood).* fl. purple or blue, with crimson veins ; 



petals somewhat emarginate ; peduncles rather corymbose. June 



and July. I. five to seven-lobed ; lobes oblong, deeply toothed. 



Stem round, erect, h. 2ft. Europe (Britain), Siberia, West 



Asia. (Sy. En. B. 296.) 

 G. tuberosum (tuberose), fl. purple, large, numerous, elegant; 



petals bifid. May. I. many-parted; lobes linear, pinnatifid, 



serrated. Stem, from the base to the fork, naked, h. 9m. South 



Europe, &c., 1596. (Sw. Ger. 155.) 



Fro. 98. FLOWERING BRANCH OF GERANIUM IBERICUM 



PLATYPETALUM. 



G. ornlthopodnm (bird's-foot). fl. in pairs, on densely downy, 

 drooping, slender pedicels ; petals white, and veined with red. 

 I. roundish in general outline, downy principally on the lower 

 face, palmately flve-lobed, usually at least half-way down, with 

 pinnatifld divisions. Stems densely clothed with soft, short, 

 decurved, whitish hairs, h. 4ft. to 5ft. Cape 

 Colony, 1872. A diffusely-branched half- 

 hardy perennial herb. (Ref. B. 290.) 



G. phcenm (dusky).* fl. dark brown, almost 



black, with a white spot at the base of each 



petal; petals spreading and entire. May 



and June. I. five to nine-lobed, deeply 



toothed ; upper ones sessile. Stem round, 



forked. Central and Western Europe; natural- 

 ised in Britain. (Sy. En. B. 294.) 

 G. pratense (meadow).* fl. blue, large ; pe- 

 tals entire ; peduncles somewhat corymbose. 



Summer. I. seven-parted, with sharply-pin- 



natifid and deeply serrated, linear lobes. 



Stem round, erect, downy, h. 2ft. to 3ft. 



Europe (Britain), Siberia. (Sy. En. B. 297.) 



There is a double-flowered form of this 



species, which makes an excellent border 



plant. 

 G. Robertlanum. Herb-Robert, fl. bright 



crimson, small ; petals entire. Summer and 



autumn. 1. three to five-parted, with trifid 



pinnatifld lobes, h. 6in. to 9m. Europe 



(Britain), Asia, North Africa. (Sy. En. B. 



G. R. alba (white). A white-flowered form, 

 well worthy of a place on the rockery or in 

 the herbaceous border. 



G. sangninenm (bloody).* /. crimson or 

 blood-red, large, about liin. across ; petals 

 notched; peduncles one-flowered, axillary, 

 much longer than the petioles. Summer. I. 

 opposite, five to seven-parted, with trifid 

 lobea and linear lobules. Stems erect or 



FIG. 99. GERANIUM WALLICHIANUM. 



G. Wallichianum (Wallich's).* fl. purple, large ; petals emar- 

 ginate. June. I. five-parted, with broadly cuneate-ovate, 

 deeply toothed lobes, clothed on both surfaces, as well as the 

 stem, with silky hairs. Stem decumbent, purple. Temperate 

 Himalaya, 1820. See Fig. 99. (B. M. 2377.) 

 GEBABDIA (named in honour of John Gerard, 1545- 

 1607, author of the famous "Herbal," 1597, and a 

 great cultivator of exotic plants). STN. Virgularia. OED. 

 Scrophularinece. A genus containing about thirty species 

 of annual or perennial, erect, branching herbs, natives of 

 North and South America. Corolla rose-purple or yellow, 

 the former colour rarely varying to white. Leaves 



FIG. 100. GERARDIA QUERCIFOLIA, showing Habit and detached Flowers. 



