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4. Great dove’s-foot Cranefbill with little flowers. 
Geranium columbinum majus flore minore ceruleo.. 
This is the plant many have confounded with 
the preceding in its name; and, having been 
taken for the fame fpecies, it has been omitted by 
moft writers. ; i 
The root is long, flender, redifh, and furnifhed 
with many fibres, 3 
The leaves are numerous, and have very long 
footftalks: they are large, of a rounded form 
in the whole, but very deeply divided into feve- 
ral parts; and they are of a pale green colour, 
and covered with a foft filvery down. 
The ftalk is round, thick, upright, and two 
feet high: itis alfo of a greenifh colour, though 
frequently red at the joints, and is covered with 
the fame filvery down as the leaves. 
The leaves upon this have long, flender, and 
weak footftalks, and are much more deeply di- 
vided than thofe from the root. 
The flowers ftand in confiderable numbers to- 
wards the tops of the ftalks: they are very fmall, 
though the plant is fo large, and their colour is 
a faint blue. 
The feed-veffel, or beak, is long and flender. 
It is common by way-fides, and flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Geranium columbinum majus flore 
minore caruleo, 
The flower in this fpecies is fometimes white, 
Ray found it in this condition near the lead 
mills on Hackney river, and it is frequent in the 
fame place at this time in the fame variation. 
5. Dwarf Dove’s-foot, 
Geranium columbinum humile flore minimo ceruleo. 
The root is oblong, flender, and divided, and 
has feveral fibres. 
The firft leaves are fupported on long foot- 
ftalks, five or fix together, from the root ; and 
they are broad and fhort, deeply divided into 
about feven parts, and thofe notched again at 
the edges. ; 
The ftalk is round, flender, upright, and not 
more than three inches high, feveral ufually rife 
together; and they are of a pale colour, and 
feldom much branched. 
The leaves on them refemble thofe from the 
root, but they are more deeply divided, and have 
fhorter footftalks. 
The flowers are numerous, and very fmall; 
the petals are divided at the tips, and they are of 
a faint bluiff¥ hue. 
The beak is fhort, fharp, and fmall; and is 
enclofed at the bottom in a cup, which is large 
confidering the fmallnefs of the plant. 
It is common on ditch-fides, and flowers in 
fpring. The fhape of the flower and beak thew 
it plainly to be a diftinét fpecies; not, as might 
appear otherwife, a ftarved plant of fome of the 
other kinds. 
Ray calls it Geranium columbinum humile flore 
ceruleo minimo. 
6. Dove’s-foot Cranefbill with deep cut leaves, 
Geraniuia columbinum foliis profunde feétis. 
The root is long, thick, divided into feveral 
parts, and hung with numerous fibres. 
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The leaves that rifé from it are fupported ont 
tall footftalks 5 and they are large, of a figure 
approaching in the whole to round, but divided 
by deep and frequent fegments into very finall 
and narrow parts, 
The ftalk is round, thick, upright, and a foot 
and half high: it is of a pale whitith colour, and 
very much branched. 
- The leaves on the talk refemble thofe from 
the root, but are of a paler green, and more 
deeply divided. : 
The flowers are fall; and of a bright red: 
they ftand in great numbers toward the tops of 
the branches. _ : 
The beaks ate large and long. ; 
It is common about the hedges of dry paftures, : 
and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Geranium columbinum tenning 
laciniatum., J. Bauhine, -Gruinale folio tenuiter 
divifo. 
The flowers in this are alfo fometimes white. 
7+ Dove’s-foot Cranefbill with flowers on long 
footftalks. 
Geranium columbinum diffettis Soltis pediculis florum 
longiffimis. 
The root is long, fender, and hung with a 
few fibres: 
The firft leaves ate humerous, and are placed, 
on long footftalks : they are of a form approach- 
ing to round, deeply divided into fegthents, and 
of a dark dufky green, 
The ftalk is round, upright, firm, branched, 
and fmooth : it is of a pale colour, and jointed . — 
at diftances, 
The leaves on it are like thofe from the root, 
but {mallet ; and they are alfo perfectly fmooth, 
and deeply divided. a 
The flowers are fupported on very long and 
flender footftalks ; and they are of a bright red : 
they are moderately large, and the petals are 
flightly divided. 
The beaks are large, 
; It is common in dry paftures, and flowers in © 
fuly. ‘ 
Ray calls it Geranium columbinum difjetiis: foliis 
pediculis florum longifimis. : 
8, The greateft dove’s-foot Cranefbill, 
Geranium columbinum maximum. 
The root is long and large, of s red colour, 
and furnifhed with numerous fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in confiderable number, and 
are fupported on very long footftalks: they are 
of a rounded figure, large, and deeply divided 
into numerous, narrow, and pointed fegments. 
. The ftalk is round, thick, upright, and three 
feet high. 
The leaves on it ate like thofe from the 
root, but more deeply divided; and the whole 
plant is covered with a filvery down. 
The flowers are large and red, and they ftand 
on footftalks, longer than thofe of the other 
kinds, but not at all comparable to thofe of the 
laft f{pecies. 
The beaks are large, long, and fharp. 
It is frequent in our jmidland counties, and 
flowers in July, 
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