934 GERANIUM. [CLASS XVI. ORDER II. 
beaked. Capsules five, each with a long naked awn, curling 
back from the base to the point—Name from yanoy of the 
Greeks, and so called from y<exvos, a crane, from the resemblance 
of the capsule and awn to the head and beak of that bird. 
1. Roots Perennial. 
* Peduncles single flowered. 
1. G. sangui'nium, Linn. (Fig. 1080.) Bloody Crane’s-bill. Pedun- 
cle single flowered, axillary; petals obovate, emarginate, twice as long 
as the bristle pointed calyx ; leaves opposite, nearly orbicular, of from 
five to seven three-cleft lobes; stem erect, or spreading. 
English Botany, t. 272.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 242.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 259.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 58.— 
G. Lancastriense, With—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 58. 
foot long, deep, rooting, stout, woody, dark reddish brown. 
Stems mostly numerous, erect, or loosely spreading, round, branched 
and leafy, from one to two feet long, more or less clothed with slender 
horizontally spreading hairs. Leaves opposite, on slender petioles, 
orbicular, kidney-shaped, in the outline deeply five to seven lobed, 
each lobe three to five-cleft. Stipules oblong, ovate, membranous, 
hairy. lowers solitary, large, of a fine deep crimson, or blood 
colour, elegantly pencilled with deeper coloured veins. Peduneles 
long, axillary, hairy. Bracteas small, ovate. Pedicles from one to 
two inches long. Calyx five oblong bristle pointed pieces, three or 
five ribbed, hairy. Petals as long again as the calyx, obovate, 
notched. Stamens equal. JL%ilaments awlshaped. Carpels even, 
keeled, downy. Seeds mostly single, dark brown, minutely wrinkled 
and dotted. 
Habitat.—Hilly and alpine pastures in limestone districts ; not 
common. 
Perennial; flowering from July to September. 
The flowers vary considerably in the intensity of their colour, 
according to their more or less shady and favourable situation of 
growth. The roots possess astringent properties, but in too small a 
proportion to render them of much value as a medicine. It is some- 
times cultivated as a border flower, and on stony banks or rock work 
it is an ornamental plant ; but the flowers are not sufficiently nume- 
rous amongst its deep thick foliage to be an elegant ornament 
of our garden borders. 
*& Peduneles two flowered. 
2. G. phe'um, Linn. (Fig. 1081.) Dusky Crane's bill. Peduneles 
two flowered opposite the leaves ; corolla flat ; petals sub-rotundate, 
unequally crenated, rather longer than the oblong bristle pointed 
calyx segments ; stem erect; leaves five to seven lobed, the upper 
ones sessile ; filaments ciliated at the base; carpels transversely 
wrinkled above. 
