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XX. GERANIACE^. 



lEr odium. 



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limestone soil. Q. 6, 7. — Slem very slender, procumbent, it 

 hairs as in G, dissectum, reflexed. Capsules quite glabrous, or some* 

 times with a few minute scattered hairs, 



2. Erodium rmrit. Stork's-Bill. 



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Pet regular, Stam. 10, slightly monadelphous at the base- 

 5 opposite the petals, sterile; the other 5 alternating with a 

 gland at their base. Caps, each with a long spiral awn^h^^vil^a 

 on the inside. — ^^ 

 the beak of that bird. 



Name: tpu)hoQ^ o, heron; the fruit resembhno- 



1. 'E. cicutd?^imn Sm. (^<?m?ac^ aS.) ; peduncles many-flowered 

 leaves pinnate, leaflets sessile pinnatifid and cut, stipules lan- 

 ceolate, petals longer than the calyx, stems prostrate hairy. 

 E. B. t. 1768. 



Waste ground, frequent. Q. 6—9. — Whole plant hairy. 

 Flowers in small umhels, purplish sometimes Avhite. Perfect stamens 

 glabrous, dilated, but not toothed at the base. 



or glabrous. 



Beak oi fruit hairy 



2. E. moschdtiim Sm. (musky S.) ; peduncles many-flowered, 

 leaves pinnate, leaflets nearly sessile ovate unequally cut,' 

 stipules ovate, perfect stamens toothed at the base, stems de- 

 pressed hairy, E. B. t. 902. 



Waste places, rare. Frequent in Guernsey and Jersey. In (he 

 Craven of Yorkshire, and in Westmoreland. Near Bristol ; Shotover 

 Hill, Oxford, and on Ampthill warren, Bedfordshire. Near Ply- 

 mouth. Simmond's Court, Carlingford Castle, and Monkton Church; 

 Ireland. Bank near Countess Wear Bridge, on the Exe, Devon. 

 Near Gresford. 0. 6, 7.— Larger than ttie last, and with much 

 less deeply cut leaflets, which yield a powerful smell of musk. 



3. E. maritimim Sm. (Sea S.); peduncles 1— 2-flowered, 

 petals very minute or wanting, leaves simple ovato-cordate 



stalked lobed. and crenate, stems depressed slightly hairy. E. 

 B, t. 646. 



and 



Sandy 

 Cornwall, and 



gravelly sea-coasts, but rare; as in Sussex, Wales, 

 Isle of Wight. Steep-Holmes, and near Bristol, far 

 from the Sea. Glenluce, Galloway. Hill of Howth, Ireland. 2^. 



9. 



Okd. XXL BALSAMIXACEiE Rich. 



Flowers very irregxdar. Sepals 5, or 4 by the union of the 

 two inner or upper ones, lowest cucullate with a spur. Petals 

 5, or apparently 2 by the want of the uppermost and the co- 

 hesion in pairs of the two lateral ones. Stamens 5 ; filaments 

 more or less united at the extremity ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 

 of 5 cells alternating with the stamens. Stigmas 5, almost 



as 



