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local. G. columbinum, L., with smooth leaves, and flowers 

 in pairs on very long and slender flower-stalks. G. dissec- 

 tum, L., with deeply-divided smooth leaves, and flowers 

 on much shorter flower-stalks. G. lucidum, L., leaves 

 orbicular, 5-lobed, glabrous, very shining, tinged with red, 

 flowers small, bright red ; rocky places, rare. G. molle, 

 L., and pusillum, L., small very pubescent plants, with 

 small flowers, the former bright pink, the latter paler; 

 common in cultivated and waste land. 



The following are nearly all not British, and are mostly 

 alpine : 



A. Flowers white with red veins : G. rivulare, Vill. 

 (aconitifolium, L'Her.) ; leaves mostly opposite, with 

 narrow rhomboidal segments and membranous acuminate 

 stipules; rare; Orisons, Valais, Tirol, Dauphiny. 



B. Flowers red, pink, or purple; leaves polygonal in 

 their general outline, with rhomboidal lobes : G. bohe- 

 micum, L. ; petals violet-blue, broadly wedge-shaped, 

 emarginate, ciliate, plant covered with long spreading 

 glandular hairs ; very local ; Valais, Tirol, Pyrenees. G. 

 nodosum, L. ; petals light pink,, wedge-shaped, deeply 

 emarginate, ciliate, sepals with a long awn, plant finely 

 pubescent; Southern Switzerland, Dauphiny, Pyrenees, 

 rare. G. phceum y L. ; petals dark violet, nearly entire, 

 ciliate on the claw, plant covered with soft hairs ; moun- 

 tain woods; Western Switzerland, Dauphiny, Pyrenees, 

 rare. G. palustre, L. ; petals large, purple, entire, ciliate 

 on the claw, fruit-stalk reflexed, plant covered with 

 non-glandular hairs ; wet places ; Switzerland, Pyrenees. 

 G. purpureum, Vill. ; flowers small, petals glabrous, re- 

 sembling Robertianum, but with smaller flowers and 

 not foetid; hedge -banks; Switzerland, Dauphiny. 



