CLASS XVI. 
MONADEL'PHIA. 
(Filaments combined in one set.) 
ORDER I. 
PENTAND'RIA. (Stamens five perfect.) 
GENUS I. ERO'DIUM.—L’Heritier. Stork’s-biil. 
Nat. Ord. GERANIACE’s. Dr Cann. 
Gun. Cuar. Calya of five pieces. Petals five. Stamens ten, five 
alternately imperfect, with a gland at the base of each. Fruit 
beaked. Capsules five, each with a long spirally twisted awn, 
bearded on the inner side.—Name from eewoLos, a Heron ; so 
called from the long tapering awns resembling the beak of that 
bird. 
1. H. cicuta'rium, L’Herit. (Fig. 1077.) Hemlock-leaved Stork's- 
bill. Peduncles many flowered; petals unequal, longer than the 
calyx ; stamens smooth, the fertile ones dilated, and rounded at the 
base; leaves pinnate ; leaflets sessile, deeply cut and toothed; stem 
prostrate, hairy. 
English Botany, t. 1768. Laan Flora, vol. iii. p. 229.—Hooker, 
Beach Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 258. adler, Synopsis, p. 58. 
B. maculatum. The larger petals marked at the base. with a 
yellowish green depression. 
y- Smith.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 230. 
fioot white, jen. tapering, the whole plant more or less clothed 
with viscid hairs, and often disagreeably scented. Stems mostly 
several, spreading, procumbent, often long, occasionally scarcely an 
inch high, round, or slightly angular, branched and swollen at the 
joints. Leaves pinnate, the radical ones numerous, more or less 
clothed with pubescence, those of the stem alternate below, opposite 
above, petiole channeled, leaflets ovate oblong, sessile, mostly cut to 
the mid-rib, and its segments toothed, obtuse, or pointed. Stipules 
pale, thin, membranous, ovate lanceolate, smooth, or ciliated at the 
base. Flowers humerous. Inflorescence umbellate, on an elongated 
hairy peduncle opposite to the leaf, or axillary. Pedicles short, 
slender, recurved in fruit. Jnvolucre of several ovate taper pointed 
membranous mostly hairy pieces, sometimes torn, Calya of five 
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