32 WOOD GKHAXIUM. 



The lar«ror hairy root leaves are often discoloured with red and piir- 

 |>li>h hlolches. from whence the speeitie name (waadatiwi,) si)otted. 

 has been given by botanists to this species. 



The flower stem is mnch branched and furnished with leafy 

 l)racts: the principal flowers are on long stalks, usually three springing 

 from a central l)ranch and aiiain subdividinti' into smaller branchlets 

 terminiating in buds mostly in threes, on drooping slender pedicels; 

 as the older and larger l)lossonis fall off' a fresh succession appears on 

 the side branches, furnishing rather smaller but equally beautiful 

 flowers during many weeks. Gray gives the blooming season of the 

 Cranes-bill from A\)y\\ to July, but with us it rarely appears before 

 June, and may be seen all throudi Julv and Aujiust. 



This Wood Geranium is a beautiful species, and would no doubt 

 repay the trouble of cultivation. Besides ])eing very ornamental 

 our i)lant possesses virtues which are well known to the herbalist as 

 powerful astringents, which quality has obtained for it the name of 

 'Alum root' among the country people, who apply a decoction of 

 the root as a styptic for wounds: and sweetened, as a gargle for sore 

 throats and ulcerated mouth : it is also given to young children to 

 correct a lax state of the svstem. 



Thus our plant is remarkable for its usefulness as well as for its 

 beautv. 



A showy species, with large rose-coloured flowers and niiich 

 dissected leaves, may be fouml on some of the rocky islets in Stoney 

 Lake. Out. The slender flower stem is about six inches in heio-ht 

 s[)ringing from a leafy involucre which is cut and divided into many 

 long and narrow segments: flowers generally from one to three.. 



