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and nearly simple, with few flowers. Dillenius mentions 

 another remarkable variety, in which the petals are irregular, 

 the two upper shorter, rounder, and marked with a greenish 

 spot at the base. The common sort is found all over Europe, 

 in Africa, Asia, North America, and the island of Madeira. 

 The last has been found in England, near Hackney, and in 

 several parts of Suffolk. 



13. Erodium Moschatum; Musk Crane's-bill. Peduncles 

 many-flowered; leaves pinnate; leaflets subpetioled, unequally 

 gashed. This strongly resembles the preceding, but has an 

 ambrosial or musky scent : the whole plant is covered with 

 hairs, which are glutinous, particularly those of the calix. 

 All the parts are larger; the stem is swollen and crooked at 

 the joints; corolla red or purple. Annual. Native of 

 France, Switzerland, the Cape of Good Hope, Syria, Barbary, 

 Peru, and Great Britain, where it is found about Battersea, 

 Streathem, &c. near London, near Bristol, Stourbridge, and 

 in Westmoreland and Yorkshire. 



14. Erodium Tordylioides ; Algiers Crane's-bill. Pedun- 

 cles many-flowered ; leaves bipinnatifid, unequally serrate, 

 the outmost lobes confluent. Found on rocks near Algiers. 



15. Erodium Gruinum ; Broad-leaved Annual Crane's-bill. 

 Peduncles many-flowered ; leaves ternate, crenate-toothed, 

 the outmost pinnatifid-lobed. This is an annual plant, with 

 very broad leaves, cut on their sides regularly and crenate; 

 flowers on long axillary peduncles ; petals entire, and blue ; 

 beaks of the fruit remarkably large. Native of Spain, Sicily, 

 Candia, Cyprus, and Syria. 



16. Erodium Ciconium ; Long-beaked Crane's-bill. This 

 is also an annual plant, which has several prostrate stems, 

 nearly a foot long; peduncles axillary, three inches long; 

 flowers pale blue ; beaks of the fruit very long, but by no 

 means so long as those of the preceding. Native of the 

 south of Europe, Barbary, Syria, Cyprus, and Madeira. 

 There is a variety, the whole plant of which is rough with 

 hairs. It is a native of the sandy coasts of Spain, Portugal, 

 and Italy. 



17. Erodium Lacerum ; Torn Crane's-bill. Peduncles 

 many-flowered; leaves doubly pinnatifid ; segments very re- 

 mote, linear, quite entire ; stem grooved, branched, more than 

 a foot high ; leaves opposite, longer than the petioles, divided 

 almost to the petiole into three pinnated segments; the pin- 

 nules linear, with a point; corolla very pale blue colour, with 

 equal petals. Native of Portugal. 



18. Erodium Diphyllum ; Two-leaved Crane's-bill. Pedun- 

 cles many-flowered ; involucres two-leaved, roundish ; lower 

 leaves three-lobed, upper pinnatitid, laciniate, gashed. The 

 involucre is composed of two opposite, membranaceotis, 

 largish bractes, that are very conspicuous, and give it the 

 significant trivial name. It is annual, and a native of Portu- 

 gal, Gibraltar, Algiers, Tunis, Candia, and Cyprus. 



19. Erodium Muticum; Beardless Crane's-bill. Pedun- 

 cles many-flowered ; leaves ternatifid, gashed, toothed ; ca- 

 lices awnless. Found in the kingdom of Tunis in Africa. 



20. Erodium Hymenodes; Barbary Erodium. Peduncles 

 many-flowered, leaves ternate, or ternatifid ; segments round- 

 ish, lobed. The stem is scaly at the base, with membrana- 

 ceous stipules, larger than in any other species. Found by 

 Desfontaines on the rocks of Barbary. 



21. Erodium Incarnatum; Flesh-coloured Crane's-bill. Pe- 

 duncles few-flowered; leaves three-parted, or ternate, trifid, 

 nigged; stem somewhat shrubby, slender, smooth, and hard. 

 The leaves are on very long petioles, heart-shaped, roundish, 

 undivided, small; stipules lanceolate, very sharp; flowers 

 red, flesh-coloured, or scarlet, with a paler disk. Native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope, 



"* Leaves lobed, or undivided. 



22. Erodium Malacoides; Mallow-leaved Crane's-btll. 

 Peduncles many-flowered; leaves heart-shaped, three-lobed; 

 lobes lobed, obtuse, obsoletely toothed. This is an annual 

 plant, with the branches inclining to the ground, and spread- 

 ing a foot and a half each way. The peduncles are placed 

 on the side of these, and sustain many bright-red flowers. 

 The fruits have long beaks. Native of the south of Europe, 

 Madeira, Barbary, Syria, the islands of the Archipelago, and 

 of Peru. There is a variety of this species, called the 

 Various-leaved Crane's-bill, which is a native of the isle of 

 Chio in the Mediterranean. 



23. Erodium Populifolium ; Poplar-leaved Crane's-bill. 

 Peduncles many-flowered ; leaves heart-shaped, sublobed, 

 obtuse-toothed ; stamina hirsute. Found in Barbary. 



24. Erodium Nervulosum ; Nerved Erodium. Peduncles 

 many-flowered; leaves heart-shaped, almost undivided, 

 toothed, thick, nerved. Native of Sicily. 



25. Erodium Glaucophyllum ; Glaucous Crane'i-bUl. Pe- 

 duncles many-flowered ; leaves oblong, obsoletely crenate, 

 glaucous ; beaks feathered. Annual. Stem extremely sim- 

 ple, very short; peduncles from three to five flowered; 

 corolla purple or pale blue, with a dark trifid line at the base. 

 It is easily known by the gray or glaucous colour of the 

 leaves, and the very long feathered beaks to the fruit. 

 Native of Egypt. 



26. Erodium Guttatum; Spotted Crane's-bill. Peduncles 

 three-flowered ; leaves heart-shaped, obsoletely lobed, tooth- 

 serrate, ash-coloured, the centre of a different colour. The 

 flowers are violet-coloured, with a very dark violet disk, and 

 are extremely sweet-scented. Found by Shaw and Desfon- 

 tarnes in Barba'ry. 



27. Erodium Maritimum; Sea Crane's-bill. Peduncles 

 three- flowered, or thereabouts; leaves heart-shaped, gashed, 

 crenate, rugged ; stems depressed, branched, lying close to 

 the ground ; root-leaves on long petioles, spreading in a cir- 

 cle on the ground, hairy, variously cut and jagged, sometimes 

 nearly lobed ; stem-leaves similar; peduncles shorter than the 

 leaves; flowers one to three, pale red, small; beaks of the 

 fruit very small, not exceeding half an inch in length. Na- 

 tive of the English and Dutch coasts. Found in Norfolk and 

 Cornwall, and also on the sandy commons in Worcestershire. 



28. Erodium Chamsedryoides ; Dwarf Crane's-bill. Al- 

 most stemless : peduncles one-flowered ; leaves heart-shaped, 

 obtuse, crenate ; leaves radical, on very long petioles, nu- 

 merous, orbiculate, heart-shaped, shining, much shorter than 

 the petioles ; scapes a little longer than the petioles, with op- 

 posite bractes ; petals white, quite entire, oblong, with villose 

 claws, between which are green fleshy obcordate glands. 

 Native of the islands of Minorca and Corsica. 



Eroteum; a genus of the class Polyandria, order Monony- 

 nia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth five-leaved; 

 leaflets ovate, concave, incumbent, permanent. Corolla : 

 petals five, ovate, roundish, concave, entire, spreading. Sta- 

 mina: filamenta numerous, (thirty,) shorter than the petals, 

 erect, filiform, placed on the receptacle; antheroa roundish, 

 minute. Ptstil: germen ovate, pubescent, superior; style 

 erect, generally longer than the stamina, awl-shaped, trifid 

 at the tip, permanent ; stigmas obtuse, simple, reflex. Peri- 

 carp : berry roundish, juiceless, acuminate, with the perma- 

 nent style, smooth, three-celled. Seeds: in threes or fours, 

 oblong, compressed a little. Observe. It has the inflo- 

 rescence, flower, and habit of Thea, but the fruit is of a dif- 

 ferent kind. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix : five-leaved. 

 Corolla: five-petalled. Style: trifid. Berry : juiceless, three- 

 celled, many-seeded. The species are, 



