CLASS XVI. ORDER II. | GERANIUM. 939 
claw slightly bearded on each side above the base. Carpels trans- 
versely wrinkled, smooth or downy. Seeds smooth, even. 
Habitat.—Dry pastures, road sides, and waste places ; common. 
Annual; flowering from April to August. 
The wrinkled valves readily distinguish this from G. pusillum ; and 
the same character, together with its smooth and not rough honey- 
combed surface of the seeds separate it from G. rotundifolium. 
8. G. lu'cidum, Linn. (Fig. 1087.) Shining Crane's bill. Peduncles 
two flowered; pedicles after flowering deflexed; petals obovate, 
entire, longer than the transversely wrinkled pyramidal calyx ; carpels 
transversely wrinkled and netted; seeds smooth; stem erect or 
spreading ; leaves roundish, five to seven lobed, cut and obtusely 
erenated. 
English Botany, t. 75.—English Flora, vol. ii. p. 236.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4 vol. i. p. 230.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 57. 
Root small, slender, thread-shaped. Stems mostly numerous, much 
branched and spreading, smooth, shining, succulent, swollen at the 
joints, and readily separating, a pale green when grown in the shade, 
a bright blood colour when fully exposed to the sun. Leaves 
roundish, kidney-shaped, deeply five to seven lobed, obtusely crenated, 
sometimes cut, a shining green above, paler beneath, and sometimes 
scattered over with a few hairs, the radical leaves on long slender 
footstalks, the upper nearly sessile, opposite. Stipules very small, 
membranous. flowers small, bright rose colour. Peduneles slender, 
about an inch long. Pedicles shorter, erect in flower, deflexed in 
fruit. Bracteas very small. Calyx smooth, of a pyramidal shape, 
five angled, the valves ovate, taper pointed, three ribbed, and trans- 
versely wrinkled. Petals obovate, entire, longer than the calyx, the 
claw slender, tapering. Carpels ovate, transversely wrinkled, smooth. 
Seeds even. * 
Habitat.—Damp rocks and walls, roofs of houses, &¢.; frequent in 
mountainous districts. 
Annual; flowering from May to August. 
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This is an extremely pretty ornamental plant, decorating with its 
deep stained stems and shining leaves the rocks and mountain 
cottages, and covering with its gay attire the ruined mote or castle 
tower. 
9. G. robertia'num, Linn. (Fig. 1088.) Stinking Crane’s-bill, or 
Herb Fobeit. Peduneles two flowered ; pedicles after flowering erect ; 
petals obovate, entire, as long again as the bristle pointed angular 
calyx ; carpels transversely wrinkled ; seeds smooth ; stem erect, and 
spreading; leaves pinnate, five angled ; leaflets trifid, cut and serrated. 
English Botany, t 1486.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 235.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i p. 260.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 57. 
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