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9. (j.pyrenaicum. Perennial Dove's-foot Crane's-bill. 

 Stalks two-flowered." Petals twice the length of the calyx;. 



Leaves kidney-shaped, lobed. Capsules keeled, even,* 



somewhat downy. Seeds without dots. 

 G. pyrenaicum. Linn. Mant. 97 and 257. Willd. Sp.Pl. v. 3. 708 



Fl.Br.735. Engl. Bot. v. 6. t. 405. Huds. 302. Curt. Lond.fasc. 



3.t.A2. Light/. 367. Hook. Scot. 206. DeCand. Prodr. v.l. 



643. Burnt. Ger. 27. Cavan. Diss. 203. t. 79./. 2. 

 G. perenne. Huds. ed. 1 . 265. 

 G. n. 12. Ger. Gallopr. 434. t. 1 6./. 2. 

 G. columbinum perenne pyrenaicum maximum. Tourn. Inst. 268. 



Herb. Tourn. 



In meadows and pastures. 



By the river between Bingley and Keighley, Yorkshire ; also near 

 Enfield, and about Brompton, Chelsea, and elsewhere near 

 London. Huds. About Edinburgh. Dr. Parsons and others. 

 At East Winch and West Bilney, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Near 

 Oxford, at the back of St. John's college. Mr. Woodward. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root tuberous, perennial. Stems 2 or 3 feet high, upright, leafy, 

 branched, clothed with spreading, or somewhat deflexed, fine, 

 soft hairs. Leaves deep green, finely hairy, rather soft to the 

 touch ; the lower ones on very long stalks, kidney-shaped, 2 or 

 3 inches wide, lobed more or less deeply, the segments notched, 

 rounded and bluntish ; upper ones opposite, on shorter stalks, 

 with fewer, deeper, more spreading lobes. Stipulas broad, hairy, 

 jagged at the points. Fl. light purple, much larger than those 

 of G. moUe. Cal. pointed, downy and somewhat fringed, scarcely 

 half the length of the petals, which are inversely heart-shaped, 

 with short very hairy claws. Stam. all perfect, but the 5 outer 

 ones, as Mr. Curtis remarks, soon drop their anthers, whence 

 they have been supposed originally imperfect. Caps, keeled, 

 even, minutely downy all over when young, but subsequently 

 becoming smoother. Seeds with a perfectly even surface. 



The flowers are sometimes white. Linnaeus confounded this with 

 his moile originally, and it is also the large-flowered molle of 

 Mr. Curtis, found about Chelsea hospital. His figures of both 

 are excellent, and he has conectly described their capsules, 

 though he did not contrast them in the specific characters, for 

 which these parts alone are all-sufficient. 



In one of the Linnsean specimens I find a wrinkle or two at each 

 side of the keel, of some of the capsules, not of all, nor do these 

 by any means resemble the copiously wrinkled capsules of G. 

 molle. 



