CL. XVI.] 23. GERANIUM KOTUXDll OIJIM. 407 



Jacq. Fl Austr. t. 23. FL Dan, 731. 923. En<yL But. 

 942. Schh. t. 183. 

 Cheiranthus turritoides, Lam. Enc. 2. 716. 



Geographical DistrihiUiwi. 



This plant is found from 68° to 44° N. Lat., ibroiigliout 

 tliG whole northern hemisphere. It grows in Lapland, Silic- 

 ria, and North America ; but it does not grow farther south 

 than the South of France. 



CLASS XVL 



23. 



Geranium rotuiidifolium, L. 



Rundblattriggcr Storchschnabel. — French, Geranium a feu- 

 illes rondes. — Engl. Dove'sfoot CranesbilL. — Swed. Gdrd 

 Storhnqf. 



This plant flowers about the middle of summer, in gar- 

 dens and fruitful fields. From a soft, fibrous root arise se- 

 veral herbaceous, roundish stems, furnished with soft, white, 

 erect hairs, somewhat glutinous, much branched, of the thick- 

 ness of a thread, and from one to two feet higli. The branches 

 and leaf-stalks stand opposite to one another, and, where 

 they grow, the stem and branches are somewhat thickened 

 and reddish. Among these divisions stand reddish, mem- 

 branaceous, lanceolate, pointed leafy appendages, which in 

 time become dry, and fall oft'. The leafstalks, which are 

 nearly horizontal, are almost an inch long, and furnislied 

 with shaggy hairs. The lower stem-leaves are nearly circu- 

 lar, liaving a deep small indentation, where the leaf-stalk is 

 inserted : they are five-lobed, having tlie lobes standing thick 

 together, obtusely dentatcd, of a pale green, furnished on 



