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derably large, but not nearly fo big as thofe 
of the former: their colour is a fine bright red. 
The beaks are long and large. 
It is found among bufhes in our northern 
counties ; and flowers in Auguft. ~ 
Ray calls it Geranium batrachoides montanum. 
C. Bauhine, Geranium batrachoides folio aconiti. 
Others, Geranium batrachoides minus. 
14. Shining dove’s-foot Cranefbill. 
Geranium lucidum faxatile columbinum. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves in fhape fomewhat refemble 
thofe of the common dove’s-foot crane/bill, but they 
are of a deep green colour, and fhining furface : 
they are more grofsly indented, and they ftand 
on long, thick, red footftalks. 
The ftalks rife among thefe leaves, and they 
are very irregularly branched, and rudely jointed : 
they alfo are red and fhining; their joints are 
large and knotty 5 and their branches fpread with 
‘great irregularity : they are a foot and half long, 
but they do not ftand very erect, 
The leaves on the ftalks are lefs indented than 
thofe at the root, and are of the fame gloffy fur- 
face and dark colour. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a faint red: 
The beaks alfo are fmall. 
Tt is frequent in our northern counties and 
elfewhere. There is a great deal of it among the 
bufhes on the right hand of the road to Rich- 
mond. 
_ It flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Geranium lucidum faxatile. 
Others, Geranium famatile. 
15. Knotty Cranefbill with trifid leaves. 
Geranium nodofum foliis trifidis. 
The root is long, irregular, and creeping. 
The firft leaves are few; and are fupported on 
long, flender, redifh footftalks: they are fmall, 
and of a deep green colour and fhining furface: 
they are each divided into three principal parts, 
and two fmaller at the bafe; fo thar thefe ‘are 
properly quinquifid, though thofe on the ftalks 
are, as the name expreffes, only trifid: thofe feg- . 
ments of the leaves are long, narrow, and fharp- 
pointed; and they are fharply ferrated at the 
edges. 
The ftalk is round, upright, and of a blood 
red colour ufually ; it is divided into many 
branches in the upper part, and has large, thick, 
and fwelling knots at the joints, 
The flowers ftand on fhort footftalks at the 
tops of the branches, commonly two} on each 
footftalk : they are moderately large, and of a 
bright red. 
The beaks are long and flender. 
It is found in fome of our northern counties; 
and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Geranium nodofum. Others, 
Geranivm nodofum plateau. 
The whole plant frequently becomes in autumn 
blood red. - 
16. Black-flowered Cranesbill, 
Geranium flore pullo. 
The root is Tong, flender, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. i 
The leaves that rife from it are large, broad 
and angulated: they are placed on long foot- 
ftalks, and they are divided by deep fegments 
into five or fix principal parts, which are pointed 
at the ends, and notched at their edges : they are 
of a dufky green colour; and often are fpotted. 
The ftalk is round, frm, very upright, and 
two fect high: it is of a pale brown colour, and 
very little branched. 
The leaves ftand irregularly’ on it, and at dif- 
tances: thofe toward the bottom refemble the 
firft leaves from the root ; but fuch as grow near 
the top are divided only into three parts, which 
are long, narrow, and notched, 
The flowers are large and black: they ftand 
on flender footftalks on the tops of the branches ; 
and thefe ufually fplit, and fuftain each two 
flowers. 
The beaks are moderately long; 
It has been found wild in fome few parts of 
England, and of late in Ireland. 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Geranium montanuy Sufcum 
Others, Geranium pullo flore. 
It flowers in 
17. Sea Cranefbill with undivided leaves, 
Geranium maritimum foliis integris, 
The root is long, flender, divided, and fur- 
nifhed with many fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous; thick, jointed, and 
of a pale green: they are five or fix inches long, 
and fpread every way upon the ground, none of 
them rifing upright, unlefs by accident: they are 
thick fet with leaves, and divided into numerous 
branches. : 
The leaves are undivided: they are oblong and 
broad, obtufe at the ends, and flightly crenated — 
round the edges: they are of a pale green, and 
they have a great deal of refemblance to the 
leaves of betony, only they are fmaller, 
The flowers ftand on fhort footftalks rifing 
from the bofoms of the leaves, ptincipally to- 
ward the ends of the branches: they are {mall 
and whitifh, with a blufh of red. 
The beaks are fhort ‘and fmall. 
It is frequent on barren, fandy grounds about 
the fea-coaft ; and flowers in June. 
Ray calls it Geranium pufillum fupinum mari- 
timum althee, vel potius Betonica folio. Merret, 
Geranium betonice folio. 
18. Pinnated-leaved Cranefbi!l without fcent, 
Geranium foliis pinnatis inodorum. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The leaves that firft rife from it are large and 
pinnated ; and they are beautifully difpofed, mak- 
ing a round tuft upon the ground : they are long, 
narrow, and of a pale, pleafant green: each is 
compofed of fix or more pairs of pinne, or 
fmaller leaves, fet on a middle rib, with an odd 
one at the end. 
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