932 ERODIUM. [CLASS XVI. ORDER I. 
oblong acute membranous margined pieces, three or five ribbed, seat- 
tered over with hairs. Petals longer than the calyx, obovate, three ribbed 
at the base, and in var. 8. with a greenish depressed spot. Stamens 
ten, the five alternate filaments without anthers Fruit of five ° 
oblong membranous carpels, hairy, the long hardened persistent styles 
united round an elongated axis, which separate from the base, and 
curl up by the elastic force of the styles; each carpel is single 
seeded, the seed pendulous, with a curved embryo. 
Habitat.—W aste places; frequent. 
Annual; flowering during the summer months. 
2. E. moscha'tum, Sm. (Fig. 1078.) Musky Stork’s-bill. Peduncles 
many flowered; petals unequal; stamens smooth, the fertile ones 
dilated and toothed on each side at the base ; leaves pinnate; leaflets 
nearly sessile, unequally cut and toothed; stem depressed, hairy, 
viscid. 
English Botany, t. 902.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 230.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol.i. p. 258.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 58. 
This species has the general aspect and habit of the last. The 
whole plant is clothed with soft viscid pubescence, especially upon the 
stem, petioles, and peduncles, and exhales a powerful odour resem- 
bling musk, the leaflets are more ovate, less deeply cut, and mostly 
with a short partial footstalk. Stipules large, ovate, waved, very 
thin, white and smooth. lowers mostly more numerous, smaller, the 
petals pink, scarcely longer than the viscid calyx, the fertile stamens 
have the filaments dilated at the base with a tooth on each side, the 
barren filaments are thin pale lanceolate membranes. 
Habitat—Mountainous pastures, rare; Guernsey and Jersey, 
frequent ; Craven, Yorkshire ; Westmoreland ; on Shotover Hill, near 
Oxford ; Ampthill Warren, Bedfordshire; near Plymouth, on a bank 
near Countess Wear Bridge; on the Exe, Devon; near Helleston, 
Cornwall.—C. A. Johns, Esq. Simmond’s Court, Carlingford Castle, 
and Monkstown Church, Ireland. 
Annual; flowering in June and July. 
3. E. martimum, L' Herit. (Fig. 1079.) Sea Stork’s-bill. Pedun- 
cles single, or few flowered ; petals minute ; stamens smooth, the 
fertile ones awl-shaped ; leaves simple, ovate, heart-shaped, lobed, and 
crenated, roughish ; stem depressed, hairy. 
English Botany, t. 646.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 231.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 259.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 58. 
Root slender, tapering. Stems mostly numerous, spreading, de- 
pressed, roundish, branched, more or less clothed with soft pale com- 
pressed hairs. eaves numerous, oblong, or roundish ovate, heart- 
shaped at the base/ more or less deeply lobed and crenated on the 
margin, roughish, with short hairs, and compressed pubescence, the 
yadical leaves with long footstalks, stout, channeled, those of the stem 
