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no localities in wliicli it is quite free from the suspicion of having 

 been introduced, although it is well estahlished in a great number 

 of stations both in England and Scotland. 



[England, Scotland]. Perennial. Summer. 



Rootstock very thick and scaly, with the branches extremely 

 short, producing leaves and flowering stems ; the latter 1^ to 2}r 

 feet high, nearly simple. Root leaves 4 or 5 inches across, with 

 the stalks 6 to 8 inches long ; stem leaves becoming smaller and 

 more nearly sessile the higher they are placed on the stem. 

 Peduncles arranged in a pseudo-raceme towards the apex of the 

 stem, about as long as the pedicels, of which two are procluced from 

 each peduncle. Elowers f inch across, dark dull purple, rarely 

 bright purple or white. Sepals oblong-eiliptical, obtuse, shortly 

 awned. Petals quite contiguous, spreading at right angles to the 

 pedicel, so that the corolla is perfectly flat. Emit about 1 inch 

 long including the beak, which is finely hairy ; the carpels with 

 a few transverse wrinkles at the top, and some long hairs on the 

 back. Plant green, with soft flaccid leaves. Stem with white 

 spreading hairs ; and besides these, short glandular ones on the 

 upper part and on the peduncles and sepals ; leaves with adpressed 

 haus. 



JDusky Crane's Bill. 



French, Geranium Brun. German, Eotlibrauner Kranichschnaiel. 



SPECIES III.— G ERANIUM NODOSUM. Linn. 

 Plate CCXCV. 

 Eeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Geran. Tab. CXCV. Fig. 4887. 



Eootstock horizontal, premorse, elongated, rather thick, scaly 

 (especially at the apex), with very short branches. Stems erect, 

 slightly branched, glabrous. Radical leaves on long stalks, angu- 

 lated-reniform in outline, 5-cleft, vrith the lobes ovate-oval, 

 acuminated, coarsely and unequally serrate ; lower stem leaves like 

 the radical leaves ; uppermost ones on shorter stalks, Avith 3 lan- 

 ceolate-acuminate lobes, the lateral lobes spreading. Elowers in 

 an irregular terminal cyme. Peduncle's from the forks of the stem 

 or axillary, 2-flo\vered. Petals much longer than the sepals, wedge- 

 sliapcd-spathulate, deeply notched at the apex. Carpels hairy with 

 a single transverse wrinkle at the apex. Seeds finely pitted (under 

 a lens). 



In woods, but only where it has been planted, though it appears 

 to have been naturalized for a great length of time. I have scc?ii 



. VOL. II. 2 c 



