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MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 

 346. GERANIUM. Crane's-bill. 



Linw.Gen.350. Juss. 268. Fl.Br.729. DeCand.Prodr.v.1.639. 

 Tourn. t. M2./. A— O. Lam. t. 573. f. 1 . Gcertn. t. 79 ; pre- 

 tense. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 345. 



Cal. inferior, of 5 ovate, glandular-pointed, concave, per- 

 manent leaves, equal and uniform at the base. Pel. 5, 

 inversely heart-shaped, spreading, much larger than the 

 calyx, all equal and regular. Nect. 5 glands, alternate 

 with the petals. Filam. 10, awl-shaped, united at their 

 base, spreading at the summit ; 5 alternate ones longer 

 than the rest, shorter than the corolla. Anth. oblong, 

 versatile, very rarely wanting on the 5 shorter filaments. 

 Germ, superior, roundish, with 5 furrows. Style awl- 

 shaped, erect, longer than the stamens, permanent. Stig- 

 mas 5, oblong, reflexed. Caps. 5, aggregate, membra- 

 nous, nearly globular, separating at their inner margin, 

 each tipped at the summit with a long, linear, flat, up- 

 right, pointed, converging, rigid awn, almost perfectly 

 smooth and naked, at length recurved or revolute, adhe- 

 ring by its point to the top of the style. Seeds solitary, 

 roundish-kidney-shaped. 



Herbaceous, scarcely at all shrubby. Branches and sialics 

 tumid at the base. Leaves mostly opposite, stalked, lobed 

 in a palmate manner, and cut. Stipulas membranous. 

 Fl. 1 or 2 on a stalk, either axillary, or opposite to the 

 upper alternate leaves, red, purplish, or blue, generally 

 handsome, without scent. 



1. G. phcpum. Dusky Crane's-bill. 



Stalks two-flowered, panicled, erect. Calyx slightly point- 

 ed. Capsules keeled ; hairy below ; wrinkled at the sum- 

 mit. Stamens hairy. 



G. phseum. Linn. Sp. PL 953. Willd. v. 3. 699. Fl. Br. 729. 

 Engl. Bot. v.5.t. 322. Hook. Scot. 206. DeCand. Prodr. v. 1, 

 641 a. Fl. Dan. t. 987. Cavan. Diss. 210. t. 89./. 2. 



G. n. 934. Hall Hist. u. 1 . 4 14. 



G. montanum fuscum. Dill, in Raii Syn. 36 1 . 



G. batrachioides puHo flore. Ger. Em. 942./. 



