19d. DNGLTSn BOTANY. 



specimens only from Kirklin^-ton, Yorkskirc ; hut it has heon 

 reported from other places in that county, and from Cumherland 

 and Hertfordshire. 



[England]. Perennial. Summer. 



Stem 1 foot to 18 inches high, flexuous. Kadical leaves 3 or 4 

 inches across, with footstalks 4 or 5 inclies long; upper leaves 

 nmch smaller. Peduncles very long. Pedicels short. Plowers 

 1 inch across, pale purple. Sepals ohlong-ohtuse, awned, witli 

 scarious margins. Petals rather suddenly enlarged towards the 

 tip, connivent at the base and spreading at the aj^ex, so that the 

 corolla is bell-shaped. Plant light green, glabrous, except the 

 peduncles, pedicels, and base of the sepals, wliich are downy. 

 The fruit is also downy, and the margins of the carpels hairy. The 

 bracts are longer and more acuminate at the apex than in the 

 other rhizomatous l^ritish species of Geranium, with none of which, 

 indeed, can it be confounded. 



Knotty Crane's Bill. 



French, Geranium Xoueux. 



SPECIES IV.-GEHANIUM SYLVATICUIII. />»»». 

 Plate CCXCVI. 

 Reich. Ic. FI. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Geran. Tab. CXC'III. Fig. 48S2. 



Rootstock horizontal, premorse, rather short, very thick, 

 densely scaly, with vei-y short branches. Stems erect, simjile below, 

 dichotomously branched above, with short hairs. Pv-adical leaves on 

 long stalks, angulated-roundish in outline, deeply 7- to 9-cleft, with 

 the segments rhomboidal, contiguous, acute, irregularly cut and 

 coarsely serrate at the margins ; lower stem leaves alternate, on 

 short stalks, resembling the radical ones, but with narrower, shorter 

 and more deeply-cut lobes ; upper stem leaves sub-sessile ; upper- 

 most ones with the lobes 5 or 3 in number and much smaller, 

 riowers numerous, in a dichotomous cyme. Peduncles in the 

 forks of the stem and terminal, 2-flowered, not deflexed after 

 flowering. Petals much longer than the sepals, obovato, truncate 

 and repand at the apex. Pilaments tapering gradually from the 

 base to the apex. Carpels hairy, smooth. Seeds smooth, but 

 appearing finely reticulated-striate under a powerful lens. 



In woods and hilly pastures. Common in the North of England 

 and in Scotland, but rare South of Yorkshire and Lancashire, 

 though reported from the counties of Norfolk, AYarwick, and 

 Worcester. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



