936 GERANIUM. [CLASS XVI. ORDER IT, 
oblong bristle pointed segments, scattered over with short close 
pressed down, three ribbed, membranous on the margin. Petals 
much longer than the calyx, obovate, emarginate, with an elongated 
white claw, striated with dark purple veins. Stamens with awl-shaped 
filaments, ciliated on the margin. Carpels oblong, even, and as well 
as the elongated awn thickly set with short close down. 
Habitat.—Thickets in the mountainous parts of Cumberland, and 
between Hatfield and Welwyn, Herts, but probably now extinct. 
Perennial; flowering from May to August. 
This plant, though always very rare, and now perhaps not found 
wild in England, is very common in the mountainous districts of 
Italy, France, Switzerland, and Germany. 
4. G. sylva'ticum, Linn. (Fig. 1084.) Wood Crane's-bill. Peduncles 
two flowered; pedicles sub-corymbose after flowering, erect; petals 
obovate, twice as long as the bristle pointed calyx ; filaments ciliated 
in the lower half; carpels even ; stem round, erect, keeled, and with 
the awn clothed with glandular pubescence ; leaves of five to seven 
deep lanceolate cut and serrated lobes. 
English Botany, t. 12).—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 234—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 259.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 56. 
Root stout, dark brown, woody. Stems mostly several, erect, 
branched, round, smooth below, clothed with glandular pubescence 
above, leafy, from two to three feet high. Leaves opposite, of from 
five to seven deep, cut, lanceolate, lobes unequally cut and serrated, 
a deep green above, paler beneath, scattered over with close pressed 
hairs, the lower on long footstalks, the upper sessile. Stipules pale, 
membranous, lanceolate, smooth. Peduncles two flowered, termi- 
nating the stem and branches in sub-corymbose clusters, and like the 
slender pedicles and calyx clothed with soft spreading glandular 
tippedpubescence. Bracteas small, awl-shaped. Calyx of five oblong 
bristle pointed pieces. Stamens with awl-shaped j/ilaments, ciliated 
in their lower half. Petals as long again as the calyx, obovate, 
entire, or slightly notched, of a fine light purple colour, striated with 
dark veins, the claw short, white and downy. Jruit erect, clothed 
with soft glandular hairs. Carpels ovate, even keeled, the awn long, 
slender, lanceolate. Seeds very finely dotted. 
Habitat.—Woods and shady banks of rivers in mountainous dis- 
tricts, especially in the North of England and South of Ireland. 
Perennial; flowering in June and July. 
This is an extremely variable plant in size and luxuriance, and the 
form of the segments of the leaves and the serratures. It is readily 
distinguished from the following and all other of our species by its 
ciliated filaments. 
