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than the leaves, thick, red, declining; stipules membranace- 

 ous, reddish, kidney-form; flowers in the forks, and at the 

 ends of the branches, on erect peduncles; they are of a fine 

 crimson, as large as a half-crown; petals quite entire; cap- 

 sules smooth. Jt flowers from May to September. Native 

 of Madeira. 



6. Geranium Macrorhizum ; Long-rooted Crane's Bill. 

 Calices inflated ; petals entire ; pistil very long ; scape di- 

 chotomous ; root perennial, the thickness of a finger, becom- 

 ing woody, dark purple on the outside, round, single, or 

 branched, having many long, round, thickish fibres; hence 

 springs a bundle of leaves, and several almost upright stems, 

 or rather scapes ; these are all very soft and smooth, like the 

 leaves of the Marshmallow, with a very short close down. 

 Most of the leaves are large, subpeltate, seven-parted ; flowers 

 large and elegant, of a deep red or bright purple colour. 

 The whole plant emits an agreeable odour when rubbed. 

 It flowers in May or June, and was first imported from 

 Italy, where it is a native. 



** Peduncles two-flowered, perennial. 



7. Geranium Canescens; Silky-leaved Crane's Bill. Leaves 

 subpeltate, five-parted, cancscent underneath ; lobes gashed; 

 petals emarginate. It flowers in May and June. Native of 

 the Cape. 



8. Geranium Incanum; Hoary Crane's Bill. Calices 

 awned ; petals entire; arils hirsute; leaves subdigitate, pin- 

 natifid. Herbaceous: stems filiform, somewhat knotty, hav- 

 ing bristle-shaped scales at the knots; lower leaves scat- 

 tered, prostrate, on long petioles, five-parted, multifid, hoary 

 underneath, with linear segments; peduncles scattered, either 

 opposite to the petioles or axillary, long, with bristle-shaped 

 bractes, either all two-flowered, or else the upper ones four- 

 flowered. Native of the Cape. 



9. Geranium Tuberosum ; Tuberous-rooted Crane's Bill. 

 Leaves many-parted ; segments linear, subdivided, obtuse ; 

 root tuberous ; plant low, scarcely branched ; flowers very 

 abundant, terminating, appearing in May; calix awned. 

 Native of Italy and Silesia. 



10. Geranium Pheeum ; Dark-flowered Cranes Bill. Pe- 

 duncles solitary, opposite to the leaves; calices slightly awned ; 

 stem erect, nearly cylindrical, eighteen inches to two or three 

 feet high, below woolly, and having a few long shining hairs 

 on them; petals waved; leaves soft, the younger ones silky, 

 ribbed ; the lower on long petioles, in pairs, the upper soli- 

 tary ; lobes mostly five, unequally toothed, the lateral ones 

 lobed ; the lower leaves have frequently six or seven lobes, 

 and the uppermost only three or four; peduncles very slen- 

 der; petals ovate, somewhat five-cornered, acuminate, waved 

 at the edge, blackish purple, shining; claws white, marked 

 with five lines, and woolly; arils hairy. Native of Switzer- 

 land, Hungary, Stiria, and of Great Britain, where it is 

 found about Clapham and Ingleton in Yorkshire, and at 

 Tovel, near Maidstone, in Kent. 



11. Geranium Fuscum ; Brown Crane's Bill. Peduncles 

 two-flowered, opposite to the leaves, in pairs; stem patuious; 

 petals quite entire. Linneus unwillingly separates this from 

 the preceding species, with which it agrees in many circum- 

 stances, and particularly in having the whole corolla spread 

 out, and dark-coloured; it differs, however, in having the 

 leaves rigid ; the corolla more reflex and smaller; the petals 

 suborbiculate, mucronate, quite entire, flat; the peduncles 

 not solitary, two-flowered, but two distinct. Native of the 

 south of Europe. 



12. Geranium Reflexum ; Purple-flowered Crane's Bill. 

 Peduncles and leaves alternate ; petals reflex, lacinmted, the 

 length of the calix, which is awnless; stem a foot high, 



dichotomous, or bifid, patuious, pubescent; upper leaves 

 alternate, five-lobed, wrinkled, tomentose, not spotted ; flowers 

 drooping, on peduncles opposite to the leaves ; calix awnless ; 

 petals red, somewhat gashed, not longer than the calix, re- 

 flex, gaping at the base. Native of Italy. 



13. Geranium Lividum ; Wrinkled-leaved Crane's Bill. 

 Leaves half-seven-lobed, gashed ; calices simple, hairy ; 

 petals flat, somewhat waved. This is allied to the two last: 

 stipules hirsute, green, those of the stem large, on the petioles 

 small; flower much larger, flat; the petals marked with a 

 very small star, acuminate, broad, perfectly flat, elegantly 

 plaited, and serrate at the edge, pale blue, with a livid centre ; 

 root thick, woody, rufous. Native of Switzerland. 



14. Geranium Nodosum ; Knotty Crane's Bill. Petals 

 emarginate ; stem-leaves three-lobed, entire, serrate, lucid 

 underneath. An herbaceous plant, having knobs like little 

 bulbs at the origin of the branches and peduncles; peduncles 

 axillary, very long, simple; calix streaked, awned; corolla 

 purple ; capsules smooth. Native of Dauphiny, and the 

 mountains of Cumberland, flowering in July and August. 



15. Geranium Striatum ; Streaked Crane's Bill. Leaves 

 five-lobed, light green ; lobes widened in the middle ; petals 

 two-lobed, netted, veined; root perennial, sending up many 

 branching stalks a foot and a half high ; peduncles long and 

 slender; the lobes of the leaves are gashed, and have a fer- 

 ruginous or purplish brown spot at their base; calices avvned. 

 It flowers in May and June. Native of Italy. 



16. Geranium Argenteum ; Silvery-leaved Crane's Bill. 

 Petals emarginate; leaves subpeltate, seven-parted, trifid, to- 

 mentose, silky; root perennial, thick; flower-stalks four or 

 five inches high, with one or two small leaves on them like 

 those below, but sessile, and terminated by two pretty large 

 pale flowers. It flowers in June, and is a native of Monte - 

 Baldo and Dauphiny. 



17. Geranium Maculatum ; Spotted Crane's Bill. Stem 

 dichotomous, erect; leaves five-parted, gashed, the upper- 

 most sessile: root perennial; flowers pale purple. It flowers 

 in June, and is a native of Carolina and Virginia. 



18. Geranium Pratense ; Meadow Crane's Bill. Leaves 

 subpeltate, many-parted, wrinkled, acute; petals entire; root 

 perennial, sending up many stalks, which rise nearly three 

 feet high, and are forked, and tinged more or less with red ; 

 hairs on the upper branches white, terminated by minute 

 dark red globules; bractes four, lanceolate, acute; (lowers 

 mostly two, on very short downy peduncles; calicine leaflets 

 lanceolate, ribbed, membranaceous at the edges, thick set 

 with fine white hairs, tipt by scarlet globules, and ending in 

 an awn ; petals very large, inversely ovate, marked with from 

 seven to nine whitish lines, and a little hairy at the base. 

 The common colour of the petals is a fine blue, but it varies 

 to white, and sometimes to variegated or striped. It has 

 been found with double flowers. Native of meadows in 

 most parts of Europe. 



19. Geranium Paltistre ; Marsh Crane's Bill. Peduncles 

 very long, declined; leaves five-lobed, gashed; petals entire; 

 the branches of this species are extremely divaricated, bifa- 

 riously and obtusely angular. It resembles the twenty-first 

 species in the leaves, but may be distinguished- from it by 

 the greater length of the peduncles, which are also recurved 

 before the flowers open, and are not erect, but declined. 

 Native of Germany, Russia, and Denmark. 



20. Geranium Aconitifolium; Aconite-leaved Crane's Bill. 

 Leaves subpeltate, seven-parted ; petals entire, veiny-lined ; 

 stems smooth, scarcely a foot high, forked; stipules in pairs 

 at the origin of each branch ; a pair of bractes also to each 

 peduncle, which is downy; calicine leaflets ribbed, hairy 



