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4. G. sangw'n'eum (L.) ; peduncles mostly single-flowered, pet. 

 nbcordate long, sepals awned, carp, smooth crowned with a few 

 bristles, seeds minutely wrinkled and dotted, 1. nearly round 7- 

 lobed, libes deeply 3-fid and cut, st. diffuse hairy, hairs spread- 

 ing horizontally. E. B. 272. Fl. large, purple; filaments di- 

 lated at the base. ft. G. prostratum (Cav.) ; st. dwarf tufted 

 nearly simple decumbent, fl. flesh-coloured. G. lancastriense 

 With. [A small-flowered procumbent form with crowded 1. and 1.- 

 segments more tapering is var. micrantlium B. White]. In dry places, 

 rare. ft. Sands in Walney Island, Lancashire. P. VII. E. S. I. 



** Roots fusiform, rhizome wanting, perennial- ped. ^-flowered. 



to. G. pyrendicum (Burm. f.) ; fruitstalks deflexed, pet. ob- 

 cordate twice as long as the mucronate sep., daws densely ciliate, 

 carp, smooth with adpressed hairs, seeds smooth, 1. reniform 

 7 9-lobed, lobes of lower 1. oblong blunt trifid and toothed at 

 the end, t. erect villose. E. B. 405. R. v. 191. G. perenne 

 (Hook.). Fl. light purple or nearly white. Claws of the pet. 

 with a dense tuft of hairs on each side. Fertile anth. 10. 

 Segments of the upper leaves more acute. St. spreading; 

 1 3 feet high, clothed with dense short down and long hairs 

 intermixed. Roadsides and pastures, rare. P. VI. VII. 



E. S. ? I. 



*** Root fibrous, rhizome 0, annual ; ped. %-Jlowered. 

 f Sep. spreading. 



6. G. mol'le (L.) : pet. oblong deeply bifid as long as or 

 i longer than the mucronate sepals, claws ciliate, carp, trans- 

 versely wrinkled glabrous, seeds smooth, 1. roimdish-reniform in 

 7 9 deep wedgeshaped segments trih'd at the end, st. diffuse 

 pubescent. JE. B. 778. R. v. 191. Fl. small, purple, or white 

 with lilac claws. Softly pubescent, glandular above. Dry 

 places. A. IV. VIII. E. S. I. 



7. G. rotundifolium (L.) ; pet. spathulate entire blunt rather 

 longer than the shortly awned sepals, claws glabrous, carp, not 

 wrinkled with spreading hairs, seeds netted, 1. reniform in 5 7 

 broadly wedgeshaped incise-crenate segments, st. diffuse pubes- 

 (>ent.E. B. 157. R. v. 190. G. viscidum Ehrh. Fl. small, 

 flesh-coloured. Peduncles shorter than the leaves. Old walls 

 and waste places, rare. A. VI. VII. E. 1. 



8. G.pusil'lum (L.) ; pedicels deflexed after flowering, pet. 

 notched hardly exceeding the mucronate sepals, claws slightly 

 ciiiate, carp, not wrinkled with adpressed hairs, seeds smooth. 



