78 19. GERANIACE2E. 



1. reniform palmate with 5 7 trifid lobes, st. diffuse downy. 

 E. B. 385. R. v. 190. G. rotundifolium Fries. St. usually 

 prostrate, clothed only with short down. Fl. small, bluish 

 purple. Claws of the pet. only slightly ciliate. Fertile anth. 5. 

 Styles pale flesh-coloured. Ped. shorter than the leaves. 

 Waste places. A. VI. IX. E. S. I. 



9. G. dissec'tiim (L.) ; pet. bifid about equalling the awned 

 sepals, claws slightly ciliate, carp, not wrinkled with erect hairs, 

 seeds netted, Lin 5 7 deep laoiniate segments with linear lobes, 

 st. diffuse hairy. E. S. 753. R. v. 189. Fl. small, bluish 

 purple. L. divided almost to the base, longer than the peduncles. 

 -Waste places. A. VI. VIII. Dove's-foot. E. S. I. 



10. G. columbinum (L.) ; pet . obovate emaryinate with a short 

 blunt tooth in the notch about equalling- the awned sepals, claws 

 ciliate, carp, not wrinkled with a few minute scattered hairs, seeds 

 netted, 1. in 57 deep laciniate segments, st. diffuse with ad- 

 pressed hairs. E. B. i?59. R. v. 198. Fl. small rose-coloured. 

 L. divided almost to their base. Peduncles longer than the leaves ; 

 pedicels very long. On gravelly and limestone soils. A. VI. 

 VII. E. S. I. 



tf Sep. oppressed with flower and fruit. 



11. G. lucidum (L.); pet. obovate entire, claws glabrous very 

 long near equalling the transversely wrinkled pyramidal calyx, 

 carp, netted triply keeled glandular-hairy at the summit, seeds 

 smooth, 1. reniform in 5 blunt incise-crenate mucronate segments, 

 st. spreading ascending E. B. 75. R. v. 187. Fl. small, rose- 

 coloured. St. and 1. glabrous and shining, often strongly tinged 

 with red. Lindley considered his G. Rail most allied to this 

 species, differing by its "shaggy calyx and simply keeled fruit." 

 Walls and hedgebanks. A. V. -VIII. E. S. I. 



12. G. Robertidnum (L.) ; pet. obovate entire or slightly 

 emarginate, claws glabrous very long nearly equalling the long- 

 awned hairy and slightly glandular sepals, carp, transversely 

 wrinkled downy, seeds smooth, 1. ternate or quinate, leaflets 

 stalked tritid incise-p nnatiiid, st. spreading erect. E. B. 1486. 

 R. v. 187. Fl. purple, sometimes white. Cal. with a very few 

 glandular hairs, not transversely wrinkled. jB. G. pnrpureum 

 (Forst. ); pet. narrower, sep. glandular-hairy, carp, glabrous 

 and more wrinkled, 1. in narrowed segments E. B. S. 2(548. 

 [A less extreme form is G. modestum (Jord.)]. Hedgebanks. /3. 

 Southern sea-coast. A. V. IX. E. S. I. 



