CLASS XVI. ORDER II. | GERANIUM. 941 
foot tapering, slender, the whole plant clothed with soft spreading 
pubescence. Stems numerous, spreading, slender. Leaves numerous, 
opposite, and alternate, roundish, kidney-shaped, the lower ones on 
long slender downy footstalks, seven lobed, each lobe deeply crenated 
or cut, the upper ones shortly petiolated, or sessile, the teeth somewhat 
acute. Stipules ovate lanceolate, downy, membranous. lowers 
small, numerous, pink. Peduncles from the axis of the upper leaves, 
slender, hairy, and viscid, as well as the pedicles, which are erect in 
flower, deflexed in fruit. Bracteas small, narrow, downy. Calyx of 
five oblong pieces, with a short obtuse point, clothed with short 
close down, and fringed more or less with long hairs. Petals oblong, 
wedge-shaped, entire, rather longer than the calyx. Carpels ovate, 
slightly keeled even, downy, as well as the tapering awns. Seeds 
ovate, rough, with depressed pits, or rather with elevated lines, like a 
fine beautiful net covering them. 
Habitat—Banks and waste places, old walls, and ruins; but not 
common. 
Annual; flowering in June and July. 
1l. G. dissec'tum, Linn. (Fig 1090.) Jagged-leaved Crane’s-bill. 
Peduncles two flowered; petals obcordate, longer than the ovate 
lanceolate bristle pointed calyx ; carpels even, and with the awn hairy 
and glandulous; seeds netted; stem erect and spreading, hairy; 
leaves deeply divided into five to seven narrow lobes, and cut into 
narrow linear segments. 
English Botany, t. 758.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 241.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed 4. vol. i. p. 261.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 57. 
fioot slender, tapering. Stems mostly several, weak, spreading, 
hairy, branched and leafy. Zeaves opposite, a dark green, paler, and 
more hairy beneath, the lower ones on long slender footstalks, and 
more or less hairy, divided to near the base into from five to seven 
segments, which are cut into three linear acute lobes, and these 
serrated, cut, or entire, the upper leaves are smaller, less divided, and 
with narrower more acute lobes. Stipules lanceolate. Plowers from 
the axis of the upper leaves, the peduncles angular, and as well as the 
pedicles downy and viscid. Bracteas narrow, lanceolate. Calya: 
rather large, clothed with thick down, the segments lanceolate, bristle 
pointed, three ribbed. Petals heart-shaped, pink, rather longer than 
the calyx, the claw short, white, downy on each side. Carpels even, 
slightly keeled, and as well as the awn clothed with glandular 
pubescence. Seeds ovate, rough, with elevated lines, covered over as 
with a fine net work. 
Habitat—Waste places, banks, and fallow fields. 
Annual; flowering in May and June. 
This is an extremely variable plant in size and luxuriance, accord- 
ing to the kind of soil and the situation in which it has grown 
