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Some have fuppofed it only a variety of the 
other dove’s-foot with deep cut leaves; but, on 
comparing them, they are abfolutely diftinc. 
Ray calls it Geranium columbinum maximum 
diffectis foliis. 
9. Bloody Cranefbill. 
Geranium hemotides. 
The root is long, thick, and divided into fe- 
veral parts. 
The leaves that rife from it are numerous, 
’ fmall, and deeply divided : they have moderately 
long footftalks, and they are of a dufky green. 
Their fegments are fingle and fharp-pointed. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, weak, and 
redifh : they are a foot long, but not very erect ; 
and are greatly branched. 
The leaves on thefe are like thofe from the 
root; and they have, in the fame manner, mo- 
derately long footftalks. 
The flowers do not grow from the tops of the — 
flalks, but rife from the bofoms of the leaves : 
they have very long, flender footftalks, and only 
one flower is fupported on each: this is very 
large, and of a deep blood red. 
The beak is fmall, and is furrounded at its 
bafe by a large cup. 
It is found among bufhes in the fouthern 
counties of England, but is not common. 
It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Geranium fanguinarium. O- 
thers, Geranium fanguineum, and Hematodes. 
10. Pale hairy-leaved bloody Cranefbill. 
Geranium hematedes foliis pallideoribus hirfutis. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
numerous fibres. 
' The leaves that rife firft from this are very 
numerous, and fupported on long, flender foot- 
 ftalks: their figure approaches to round, but 
they are deeply divided into narrow fegments ; 
and they are hairy, and of a pale green. 
The ftalk is flender, hairy, whitifh, and but 
indifferently able to fupport itfelf. 
The Jeaves on it are, like thofe from the root, 
pale coloured, ‘hairy, and very deeply divided; 
and they have fhort footftalks. 
The flowers are large, and of a pale red; and: 
they ftand on feparate long and flender footftalks 
rifing from the bofoms of the leaves. 
' The beaks are long and large. 
It is found in Cambridgefhire, and fome other 
places, but is not common, 
It flowers in July. — 
Ray calls it Germanium hematodes foliis majori- 
bus pallidioribus 8 altius incifis. 
11. Small bloody Cranefbill. 
Geranium hematodes pumilum. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
numerous fibres. 
The leaves that firft rife from it are nume- 
rous, fmall, of a roundifh figure, but deeply di- 
vided into narrow fegments, and placed on long 
footftalks: they are of a dufky green colour, and 
not in the leaft hairy. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, round, and 
branched : they are fix or eight inches long, but 
not perfectly erect. : 
Their leaves are fmall, and very deeply di- 
vided ; and they are of the fame deep green 
colour with thofe from the root, and alfo fmooth. 
The flowers are very large, and very beautiful: 
they ftand fingly on long foorftalks rifing from 
the bofoms of the leaves; and they are of a pale 
whitifh colour, variegated with veins of red. 
The beaks are fmall. 
It is found in Lancafhire and the adjoining 
counties; and flowers in Auguft. 
Ray calls it Geranum beratodes Lancaftren/e flore 
eleganter variegato. 
It has been fufpected as only a variety of 
one of the firft kind; and the feeds have been 
fown in gardens to try. In this cafe it becomes 
larger, but the leaves continue fmaller, than thofe 
of the common kind; and the flower always con- 
tinues variegated. 
12. Crowfoot Cranefbill. 
Geranium Batrachoides. 
This is a very large and {pecious plant. 
The root is long, thick, and furnithed with 
abundance of fibres. ° 
The firft leaves rife in a large tuft: they are 
fupported on long, flender footftalks, and are 
large and fpreading: they are divided very 
deeply into numerous fegments, which are again 
notched at their edges; and they are of a pale 
green, and hairy. 
The ftalk is thick, firm, upright, two feet 
high, and very much branched. 
The leaves on it are numerous and large, and 
are divided more deeply than thofe immediately 
from the root. 
ae ee oe numerous, very large, and of 
a fine blue: they ftand at the to 
on fhort footftalks, eam 
The beaks are long, and not very thick. 
It is frequent in paftures in many parts of — 
England. About Twickenham there is a great 
deal of it. 
It flowers in July. 
J. Bauhine calls it Geranium batrachoides. Oz 
thers, Gratia Dei. 
13. Red-flowered crowfoot Cranetbill, 
Geranium batrachoides flore minore rubente. 
The root is long, thick, and futnifhed with 
a multitude of long and crooked fibres. 
From this rife firft four or five leaves, rarely 
more: they are large, broad, and of a deep 
green colour, and fhining furface : they are fup- 
ported on long footftalks, and are cut into feve- 
ral divifions at the edges, but not fo deeply as 
thofe of the former fpecies. , 
The ftalk is round, upright, but flender, 
fomewhat branched, and a foot and half high, 
The leaves that ftand on it refemble thofe 
from the root, but they are {maller, and more 
deeply divided. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks 
and branches on fhort footftalks, and are confi- 
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