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many as there are petals, some occasionally abortive. Ovary 

 5-lobed, terminated by a long thick beak (torus or gynohase)^ 

 and 5 stigmas. Carpels 5, 1 -celled, ultimately separating from 

 the base of the beak, together with a long elastic awn (the style). 

 Seed solitary, without albumen. Embryo curved. Cotyledons 

 convolute and plaited. — Herbs or shrubs with leaves opposite 

 at the joints^ or alternate and then opposite the peduncles. No 

 tendrils, 



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1. Geranium. Capsules with a long glabrous recurved awn. 



2, EiiODiuM. Capsules with a long spiral awn, which is bearded on the 



inside. 





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Flowers large, 



1. Geranium Linn. Crane's-bill. 



Pet. regular. Stam. 10, slightly monadelphous ; 5 outer ones 

 opposite the petals, rarely sterile; the other 5 alternating, 

 larger, with a gland at their base. Caps, each with a long 

 glabrous recurved awn. — N*ame : yepavtov of the Greeks, from 

 yepavog^ a crane ; the fruit resembling the beak of a crane, 



* Peduncles l-fiowered. 



1. G. sangulneum L. (bloody^ C.) ; leaves nearly orbicular in 

 5—7 deep lobes each of which is trifid, carpels even with bristly 

 hairs at the summit, seeds minutely wrinkled and dotted. — 

 a. flowers purple. E, B. t. 272. — ^. prostrate, flowers flesh- 

 coloured with purple veins. G. Lancastriense With. 



Alpine or limestone pastures, in many places ; but not very general. 

 "T- ^. Sands in Walney Island, Lancashire. 2/.. 7. — Steml 

 high, swelling at the joints. Peduncles axillary, long, 

 handsome. 



** Peduncles 2-flowered, Root perennial. 



2. G.ph(B'ura L. (dusky C.) ; peduncles opposite the leaves, 

 calyx slightly awned, petals waved, capsules hairy below trans- 

 versely wrinkled above, stem erect. E. B. t. 322. 



Woods and thickets, but usually the outcast of a garden. "2^. 5,6. 

 — Stem 2 ft. or more high, diehotomously branched. Leaves 3 — 7- 

 lobed, lobes acute, cut and serrated. Flowers very dingy, purple- 

 black : a var. with white flowers is found on the sands of Earrie near 

 Dundee. 



^3. G. * nodosum L. {knotty C.) ; stem glabrous, leaves opposite 



with 5 or 3 deep pointed serrated lobes, petals with a deep 



notch, sepals long-awned, capsules even downy all over. E. B. 

 t. 1091. '^ 



Said to have been gathered in the mountainous parts of Cumberland, 

 and between Hatfield and Wehvyn, Herts; but no specimens have been 

 observed there for many years. Banks of the Tweed. . 21. 5—8. 



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