CLASS XVI. ORDER II. | GERANIUM. 937 
5. G. praten'se, Linn. (Fig. 1085.) Blue Meadow Crane's bill. 
Peduncles two flowered ; pedicles sub-corymbose after flowering, 
reflexed ; petals obovate, twice as long as the bristle pointed calyx ; 
filaments dilated at the base, smooth; carpels even keeled, and with 
the awn clothed with glandular pubescence; stem erect; leaves of 
five to seven lanceolate lobes, deeply cut and serrated. 
English Botany, t. 484.—Knglish Flora, vol. iii. p. 234— Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4- vol. i. p. 260.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 56. 
Root stout, dark brown, somewhat woody. Stem erect, round, 
stout, pinkish below, and about the joints clothed with short close 
pressed pubescence, above glandulous and branched. Zeaves nume- 
rous, opposite, the lower ones on Jong spreading channeled footstalks, 
spreading, the upper sessile, deeply cut into from five to seven narrow 
linear lanceolate lobes, deeply cut into narrow segments, and acutely 
serrated, dark green above, paler beneath, clothed with close pressed 
pubescence. Stipules narrow, lanceolate, membranous. Flowers 
numerous in terminal sub-corymbose clusters, much larger than the 
last species, of a fine blue colour, striated with purple, sometimes 
entirely white. Peduncles two flowered, long, downy, glandular 
above. Pedicles about an inch long, erect in flower, declining or 
reflexed in fruit, thickly clothed with spreading slender glandular 
pubescence. Bracteas linear, acute, spreading. Calyzx of five oblong 
acute bristle pointed segments, downy, five ribbed. Stamens with 
thread-shaped filaments, dilated into an ovate form at the base, quite 
smooth, or slightly downy. Carpels even, ovate, keeled, clothed with 
short glandular hairs, as well as the long taper pointed awn. Seeds 
dark brown, finely dotted. 
Habitat—Moist rich pastures and thickets in mountainous dis- 
tricts; not unfrequent. 
Perennial ; flowering in June and July. 
The flowers of this species are extremely beautiful, and much larger 
than the last. In some parts of Derbyshire and Yorkshire it clothes 
the banks of the mountain stream, and when in full bloom none of 
our native plants surpass it in the beauty and elegance of its bunches 
of flowers. After flowering the pedicles recurve, and carry the faded 
flowers beneath the shade of those in full bloom as though they 
were conscious of their fallen state, and gave place to others of in- 
creasing beauty. 
6. G. Pyrenai'cum, Linn. (Fig. 1086.) Mountain Crane’s-bill. 
Peduncles two flowered; pedicles after flowering declining; petals 
twiee as long as the pointed calyx, deeply notched, and bearded on 
each side above the claw; carpels even, and with the awn covered 
with close pressed pubescence; seeds smooth; stem erect; leaves 
kidney-shaped, five to seven lobed, each lobe three-cleft, and the lower 
ones crenated. 
