236 MONADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Geranium. 



G. tertium. Fuchs. Hist. 206. /. Ic. 1 1 6./. 



G. quintum. Matth. Valgr. r, 2, 21 1 ./. Camer. Epit. 603./. 



Herba Roberti. Dalech. Hist. 1278. f. 



Herb Robert. Petin. H. Brit. t. 6b. f. 5. 



/3. Geranium lucidum saxatile, foliis Geranii robertiani. RaiiSyn. 



358. 

 Shining Herb Robert. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 65. f. 6. 



In waste ground, on walls, banks, and under hedges, common. 



/3. Near the sea. In Dorsetshire. Sherard. Selsey island, Sus- 

 sex. Dillenius. A weed in Chelsea garden. 



Annual. May — October. 



Root tapering. Stems several, spreading in every direction, and 

 partly recumbent, round, leafy, branched, red, brittle and suc- 

 culent, a little hairy, chiefly at one side. Leaves opposite, on 

 long stalks, ternate, cut in a pedate manner, their outline un- 

 equally five-angled, their surface shining, more or less hairy ; 

 in /3 they are still more shining, as well as more fleshy. Stalks 

 lateral and terminal, each bearing two bright crimson^owers, 

 occasionally white, smaller than any of the preceding. Cal. 

 brownish, hairy, with 10 angles when closed. Pet. obovate, 

 entire. Stam. awl-shaped, smooth. Caps, obovate, downy, 

 simply keeled, curiously marked, at the outer edge, with ele- 

 vated interbranching wrinkles. Seeds perfectly smooth and 

 even. 



This herb has a strong disagreeably pungent smell. Bugs are said 

 to avoid it. In autumn it assumes a deep red hue. 



6. G. lucidum. Shining Crane's-bill. 



Stalks two-flowered. Leaves five-lobed, rounded. Calyx 

 pyramidal, transversely wrinkled. Capsules wrinkled, 

 triply keeled. 



G. lucidum. Linn. Sp. PL 955. WilM.v.3.709. H.Br.733. Engl. 



Bot. V. 2. t. 75. Hook. Scot. 207. Land. t. 32. DeCand. Prodr. 



15.1.644. Fl.Dan.t.2\8. Cavan. Diss. 2\ A. t. SO. f. 2. Bauh. 



Hist.v.3.p.2.48].f. 

 G. n. 942. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 406. 

 G. saxatile. Raii Syn. 361. Thai. Harcyn. 44. t.5; excellent. 



Ger. Em. 938. descr. n. 3. 

 G. alteram montanum saxatile rotundifolium. Column. Ecphr. 



138. f. 137. 

 Shining Crane's-bill. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 64. f. 12. 



On walls, cottage roofs, and moist rocks, chiefly in the moun. 

 tainous parts of Great Britain. 



About Bury, Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. Between Mortlake and 

 Kew. Hudson. Perfectly naturalized at Lakenham, near Nor- 

 wich, by the late Mr. Crowe. 



Annual. May — August. 



