The Heron- Bills of Yorkshire. 381 



E. Botrys Bertolini, Ardoino, p. 83-4. — Not under that 

 name in either Loudon, and not numbered in Oxf. List (unless 

 littoreum Leman, 492, is an earlier name, Ardoino's diagnostic 

 is : Inferior leaves lobed, superior bipinnatif, with the 'arete' 

 of carpels (bony ' bill ' as we say) 9 to 10 cmm. i.e., 3 -J inches 

 or so ! Flowers — April to May on the Riviera, Rocks of Cape 

 Croisette and Mont de l'Euze — somewhat large purple. . The 

 only presumably authentic specimen I have, ' Terrill deter- 

 inavit, Kew,' shows an eight inches to foot high plant of neat, 

 strict habit ; two stiff, hardly branching flowering stems from 

 rootstock, with leaves of two types — the radical ones with 

 2 inch stalk, pinnatifid, bluntly lanceolate in outline, the 

 segmentation rather deep, markedly decurrent of blade with 

 rounded lobations, the stem leaves also ovate but with a stiff 

 distinctive Burnet-Kex like lobation, regular narrow acute 

 pinnae. Lilac petals (? faded) twice length of acute, nerved, 

 scarious-bordered sepals. Umbel with 3 to 5 reflexing pedicels. 

 If this is Bertolini's Botrys, nothing in the physiognomy of 

 the flower or fruit arrangement suggests the cluster of grapes 

 its title implies. It is the next commonest to E. cicutarium 

 on the scouring heaps of our skinyards. The awns or beaks 

 of the fruit in this and the next are described as finely silky 

 bearded. 



E. littoreum (Leman) D.C., 492 Oxf. List ; 9454 Loudon. — 

 A small diffuse caulescent perennial after the style of E. 

 maritimum, smoothish, with cordate leaves, with 3 rounded 

 lobes unequally crenate. Petals reddish, awns of carpels 

 bearded. I have not recognised this as yet upon our ' tips.' 

 Another species of which I have no knowledge, placed next 

 to this in Loudon is 



E. serotinum Stev., No. 9455, Loudon, described as a late- 

 flowering, more boreal plant (Siberia and Russia), perennial 

 of 9 inches or so, single or many-stemmed, diffuse, leaves 

 opposite, tri-lobed, with broad serrated segments, divaricating 

 laterally, from the axils of which springs a shortish common 

 peduncle, many-flowered, with broadish acute blue-petalled 

 flowers, judging by the small cut on page 568 of the old 

 Encyclopaedia, in which, spite its out-of-dateness, novices 

 at the name-game may get many an acrostic ' light.' The 

 reference is given to Sweet's Geraniums, 137, a book I have 

 not access to. 



E. moschatum L'Her. (Ger. m. (L) Allioni, 494, Oxf. list. 

 As Asa Gray — of acute perceptive flair — put it, all the allied 

 forms of this have the sepals without bristle points, and the 

 filaments of the anther-bearing stamens with two teeth at their 

 base. [Whilst all the cicutarium section reveal the exact 

 opposite respectively] — little need to describe this in full detail, 

 if the growing plant exhales a powerful musky scent. The 



1917 Dec. 1. 



