Geranium.] MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 259 



ford Castle, and Monkstown Church ; Ireland. Bank near Countess 

 Wear Bridge, on the Exe, Devon. Near Gresford. J. E. Bowman. 

 Fl. June, July. ©. — Larger than the last, and with much less deeply 

 cut leaflets, which yield a powerful smell of musk. > 



3. E. maritimum, Sm. {sea StorKs-hill); peduncles 1- or few- 

 flowered, leaves simple ovato-cordate stalked lobed and crenate, 

 stems depressed slightly hairy. E. Bot. t. 646. — Geranium, L. 



Sandy and gravelly sea-coasts, but rare ; as in Sussex,' Wales, and 

 Cornwall. Steep-Holmes, and near Bristol, far from the sea. Glenluce, 

 Galloway; Br Graham. Hill of Howth, Ireland. Fl. May — Sept. If. 

 —Flowers exceedingly small and inconspicuous. Petals fugacious. 



MONADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. 



2. Geranium. Linn. Crane's-bill. 

 * Peduncles \-Jiowered. 



1. G. sangidneum, L. (bloody Crane's-bill) ; peduncles 1- 

 flowered, leaves nearly orbicular in 5 — 7 deep lobes each of 

 which is trifid. E. Bot. t. 272. 



Alpine or limestone pastures, in many places ; but not very general. 

 Fl. July. 11. — 1 — 1^ ft. high, swelling at the joints. Peduncles axil- 

 lary, long. Flowers large, handsome, purple, varying to flesh-colour, 

 Avith purple veins. 



** Peduncles 2-Jioive7'ed. 



2. G. phcmm, L. {dushy Crane's-bill); peduncles 2-flowered 

 opposite the leaves, calyx slightly awned, petals waved, capsules 

 keeled hairy below wrinkled above, stem erect. E. Bot. t. 322. 



Woods and thickets, in many places, but often the outcast of a garden. 

 Sir J. E. Smith considers it to be perhaps most truly wild in the moun- 

 tainous parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire. With white fl. at the sands 

 of Barrie near Dundee. Fl. May, June. %.—Stem1 feet or more high, 

 dichotomously branched. Leaves 3— 7-lobed, lobes acute, cut and ser- 

 rated. Flowers very dingy, purple-black. 



3. G. nodosum, L. {knotty Crane's-bill); peduncles 2-flowered, 

 leaves opposite 3- or 34obed pointed serrated, capsules even 

 downy all over. Sm. E. Bot. t. 1091. 



Said to have been found in the mountainous parts of Cumberland, and 

 between Hatfield and Welwyn. Harts ; but I have never seen British 

 specimens. Fl. May — Aug. 14 . 



4. G. sylvdticum, L. ( Wood Crane's-bill); peduncles 2-flower- 

 ed, leaves subpeltate with 5 or 7 deep and acute lobes Avhich are 

 cut and serrated, stem erect corymbose, petals slightly notched, 

 stamens fringed, capsules keeled hairy not wrinkled. E. Bot. t 



121. 



Woods, thickets and sides of rivers, chiefly in subalpine countries. 

 Fl. June, July. If .—1—3 ft. high. Flowers purple, rather larger than 

 those of G.phcBum, but much smaller than in the following species. 



1 The sandy shore on which it grew in Sussex, has been long washed away. 

 Borrer, 



