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sepals, wedgcshapcd-obovatc, obcordate at the apex, ciliated above 

 the claw, rilaments glabrous. Carpels transversely wrinkled with 

 prominent ridges, glabrous, keeled on the back. Seeds smooth. 



In meadows, hedgcbanks, and by roadsides and waste places. 

 Very common and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual or Biennial. 

 Spring to Autumn. 



llesembles G. pyrenaicum, but smaller. Tap-root much more 

 slender, and the rliizome present only in those plants which do 

 not flower until the second year. Stems 6 to 18 inches long, 

 weak. Root leaves 1 to 2 inches in diameter ; the segments with 

 narrower lobes than in G. pyrenaicum, and entire (not crenate). 

 Peduncles of the upper tlowers shorter than their jiedicels. Flowers 

 much smaller, | to i inch across, of a paler and redder pur])le, 

 or purplish rose - colour. Carpels conspicuously transversely 

 wrinkled, and without hairs. Hairs of the stem, peduncles, 

 pedicels and calyx long and white, rather close. Glandular hairs 

 on the pedicels, peduncles and sepals fewer. Bracts much shorter 

 and broader. 



Soft Cr erne's Bill. 



French, Geranium Mollet. German, Weicher KraniclachnabeU 

 This sj)eoies is also called " Dove's Foot Crane's Bill." 



SPECIES VIII.— G ERANIUM PUSILLUM. Linn. 

 Flate CCO. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Geran. Tab. CXC. Fig. 4877. 

 G. rotundifolium, Fries, Nov. Fl. Suae. I. p. 212. 



Tap-root annual or biennial. Stems ascending or decumbent, 

 dichotomously branched, finely hairy or sub-glabrous. Badical 

 leaves stalked, roundish, deeply 7- to 9-cleft, with the segments 

 scarcely contiguous, wedge-shaped, truncate and irregularly cut or 

 lobed at the apex; lobes longer than broad, rather obtuse or 

 rounded; upper leaves resembling the others, but semicircular- 

 reniform in outline, with the segments and the lobes at their apex 

 much narrower ; uppermost leaves with 5 simple lobes. Plowers 

 very numerous, in an irregular dichotomous cyme, the ultimate 

 branches of Avhicli are racemose. Peduncles in the forks of the 

 stem and in the axils of the leaves, 2-flowered. Bracts linear-acute. 

 Petals nearly equalling the sepals, wedgeshaped-obovate, deeply 

 emarginate at the apex, ciliated above the claw. Filaments ciliated 

 at the base. Carpels without transverse wrinkles, downy, keeled on 

 the back. Seeds smooth. 



