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In hedgebanks, roadsides, and waste places. Common, and 

 generally distributed except in tlie extreme North of Scotland, but 

 often passed over from its resemblance to G. molle. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Spring to Autumn. 



Extremely like G. molle, but tbe segments even of the root- 

 leaves are not contiguous ; the flowers are smaller and paler in 

 colour; tbe anther-bearing stamens often only 5 in number; and 

 the whole plant less hairy. The very dill'ereut carpels, are however, 

 by far t1ic best means of separating the two ; in the present species 

 tbere are none of the transverse ridges which are so conspicuous in 

 G. molle, and instead of being glabrous they are downy with short 

 hairs. 



Small-flowered Crane's Bill. 



French, Geranium Fluet. German, Nkdriger Kramchsehnabel. 



SPECIES IX.— GERANIUM ROT UNDIPOLIUM. Linn. 



Plate CCCI. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Geran. Tab. CXC. Fig. 4S78. 

 G. viscidulum, Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec. I. p. 217. 



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

 dichotomously branched, hairy. Eadical leaves stalked, roundish, 

 5- to 7-cleft, with the incisions between the segments shalloAv ; the 

 segments contiguous, broadly wedge-shaped, truncate and irregularly 

 cut and crenate at the apes. Stem leaves resembling the root leaves, 

 but on shorter stalks ; the uppermost smaller, semicircular-reniform, 

 with 5 not contiguous ovate or elliptical entire lobes. Elowers 

 numerous, in an irregular dichotomous cyme, the ultimate branches 

 of which are racemose. Peduncles in the forks of the stem and 

 axils of tbe leaves, 2-flowered. Bracts lanceolate-acuminate. Petals 

 half as long again as the calyx, wedgesliaped-oblanceolate, obtuse 

 or rounded (not emarginate) at tlie apex, glabrous above the claw. 

 Pilaments glabrous. Carpels without transverse wrinkles, keeled 

 on the back, hairy. Seeds pitted. 



In hedgebanks, waste places, and by roadsides. Rather rare, 

 and probably native only in the southern half of England; for 

 although the plant has been gathered as far North as Northumber- 

 land, it has probably been introduced with ballast. 



England, Ireland. Annual or Biennial. Spring to Autumn. 



In size and general habit this species closely resembles the two 

 preceding, but the leaves arc much less deeply divided, and the 



