GERANIACE^. 69 



VII. [On a wall on Newington Green, Buddie; Newton MSS.'\ 

 First record: Merrctt, 1666. 



1.39. C robertianum, L. Herb Robert. 



C)h. Br. i. 266; Comp. 135. Syme E. B. ii. t. 305. 

 Hedgebanks and shady places; very common. A. or B. May— Sept- 

 ember. 

 Frequent in all the districts except VII. where we have not observed it. 



First record: Johnson, 1629. Blackstone noticed it with white flowers at 

 Harefield in 1735 and 1745 {Fasc. 33 and Sjiec. 27). The seashore 

 variety is mentioned by Smith as being 'a weed in Chelsea Gardens;' 

 E. Fl. iii. 236. 



EEODITJM, nmrit. 



140, IS. cicutarium, Sm. Stork' s-bill. 



Geranium arvense, Tab., Myrrhida Plinii (Johns.). Geranium cicutarium 



(Curt.). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 257 ; iii. 400 ; Comp. 132. Curt. F. L. f. 1. 



Eoadsides and waste ground, on sandy soil ; rare. A. or B. June — 



September. 

 I. Pinner. Uxbridge ; Cole. 



II. A few plants on the road from Staines to Hampton. 

 V. Chiswiek ; Hemsley. Kew Bridge Station, N. Lond. Ey. ; Newb. 

 VI. Edmonton. 



VII. Bet. Kentish Town and Hampstead ; Johns. Eric. [Hyde Park wall, 

 1817 ; Herb. G. ^ R."] Side of canal, Homerton, a single specimen; 

 Cherry. Kensington Gardens, 1868, a single plant ; Warren (v. s.). 



First record: Johnson, 1629. Eemarkably scarce in Middlesex. The 

 old botanists (as some moderns do still) divided this into several 

 species. Buddie mentions a large-flowered jpkmt found by Doody and 

 himself near Chelsea College, and also Ger. inodorum cicutes foliis an- 

 ffustissi?nis sectis shown him by Doody in several places near London. 

 From the specimen in Herb. Btuld. v. 11, f. 18, the latter seems a small 

 form, and is probably that mentioned in E. Syn. iii. 357, as found by 

 Doody near Chelsea. Ger. pinipinclla folio of Dillenius found by him 

 near Hackney {R. Syn. iii. 358) may have perhaps some claims to 

 notice as a variety. Mr. Woodward B&ys (With. ii. 724), 'I have 

 cultivated it for several years without observing any variation in it, 

 and Mr. Curtis ... is satisfied it is a distinct species.' It is the 

 E. commixtum of Jordan. 



141. E. moscbatun), Sm. 



Cyb. Br. i. 257 ; iii. 400 ; Comp. 132. Syme E. B. ii. t. 308. 



Waste places and roadsides ; very rare. A. or B. May — September. 

 II. Laleham, 1815 ; Hirb. G. ^- 7?. Mr. Varenne assures us that this is 



