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(60) Radiola. ALLSEED. 



R. Millegrana : annual ; minute, erect, with numerous re- 

 peatedly-forked branches, forming dense corymbose tufts, 1-2 

 inches high ; leaves small, opposite ; flowers minute, globular, 

 white ; calyx- teeth 8-12 ; petals about the length of the calyx. 

 Sandy heaths and waste places. Fl. July, August. 



(61) Geranium. CRANE'S-BILL. 



* Perennials with large flowers. 



G. sanguineum : stems numerous, a foot long, decumbent, 

 rarely erect, with spreading hairs, leafy ; leaves nearly or- 

 bicular, divided to the base in 57 segments, which are again 

 cut into 3-5 narrow lobes ; flowers large, dark purple, growing 

 singly on long, slender peduncles ; petals slightly notched, 

 spreading. Dry woods and pastures. Fl. June to September. 



G. sylvaticum : stems 1-2 feet high or more, erect ; leaves 

 long-stalked, palmately divided almost to the base into 5-7 

 pointed lobes more or less cut and serrated ; stem-leaves few ; 

 flowers in a rather dense, corymbose panicle, purplish; pe- 

 duncles two-flowered ; pedicels erect ; petals obovate, slightly 

 notched, scarcely twice as long as the calyx. Moist thickets 

 and mountain pastures. Fl. June, July. 



G. pratense : this resembles the last, but differs chiefly in 

 its more cut leaves, and larger bluish-purple flowers loosely 

 panicled on longer peduncles, the pedicels always more or less 

 spreading or reflexed after flowering. Meadows and thickets. 

 Fl. June, July. 



** Annuals, with small flowers. 

 f Petals entire. 



G. Bobertianum : annual ; stems \-\ foot high, erect or 



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