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The Striped Cranesbill (G-. striatum), grows in Aske woods, 

 a part of Lord Zetland's grounds ; it is a beautiful species, the 

 white petals covered with purple veins. It has recently been 

 admitted into our British Flora. 



The Storksbills are closely allied with the Cranesbills, but 

 have a longer beak and pinnate leaves. 



The Hemlock Storksbill (Erodium cicutarium, Plate V., 

 fig. 8), is a common plant about Edinburgh, adorning the rocks 

 on Braid Hill and Arthur's Seat, and the shore along the Firth 

 of Forth. Its bright pink flowers are very pretty. 



The Sea Storksbill (E. maritmmm), has no beauty. Its tiny 

 flowers are generally petalless, and it would attract no atten- 

 tion except from a botanist. Fanny got it both at Looe and 

 Polperro, in Cornwall. At first she fancied that the petals 

 had fallen off by accident, and she kept the plant in water 

 until a fresh bud should open; this was also petalless. She 

 tried it again, but with the same result, and afterwards she 

 found from some book on botany that the petals were generally 

 absent. 



All the members of this family have a musk odour, but the 

 Musky Storksbill (E. moschatum), has it in much the greatest 

 degree. This plant inhabits mountain pastures ; it differs but 

 little from the Hemlock Storksbill, and many eminent botanists 

 think it merely a variety of that species. 



The Garden Rues, much recommended as a " Bitter," and 

 the Fraxinella, belong to orders succeeding that of the Gera- 

 nium, though without British representatives. The Fraxinella 

 is a native of Switzerland, and as a handsome shrubby plant 

 has gained entrance to our gardens. The whole plant has a 

 strong odour, agreeable to some, but very much the contrary to 

 others. Dr. Murray, in his book on " Vegetable Physiology," 

 states that the atmosphere around this plant becomes luminous 

 in hot weather. 



The TEOPJEOLUM family, so well known in our gardens by its 

 representatives the common Nasturtium and the plant known 



