MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Erodium. 197 



RATHANUS. Kadish.' 



R. Raphanistrum. Wild R. Jointed Charlock. Pods 

 jointed, slightly furrowed, of one spongy cell. Leaves 

 stalked, lyre-shaped. E. B. 856. C. 4. 46. R. 

 sylvestris. G. E. 240. 



Cornfields, troublesome. 



An. June. 



Root spindle-shaped. Stem, one to two f., branching, glaucous, 



bristly, leafy. Ls. toothed, rough, uppermost simple, oblong. 



Fl. large, lemon, white, or violet-coloured, streaked with veins, 



M'liich become dark-purple as the fl. advances in age. Cal. 



slender, bristly upwards. Siliq. erect, tapering, beaked, smooth, 



joints falling off separately. 



Linnaeus supposed the seeds eaten in bread to produce Raphania, 

 a convulsive disease. Taste of the plant acrid. Were the seeds 

 dangerous, they would make great ravages eaten elsewhere : this 

 is not the case. 



Class XVI. MONADELPHIA. 



Filaments combined in one set. 

 Order I. PENTANDRIA. Stamens 5. 



ERO'DIUM.^ Stork's.bill.3 



E. cicutarium. Hemlock St. Stems trailing, hairy. 

 Stalks many-flowered. Leaves winged ; leaflets stalk- 

 less, wing-cleft, sharply cut. Stamens simple. E. B. 

 1768. Geranium cicutarium, C. 1. 51. G. cicutae 

 folio inodorum. G. E. 945. 7. Erodium pimpinellse 

 folium. Sb. 211. 



Waste ground, y. Fields, Headington Hill. Cowley. Sb. Head- 

 ington. R. W. 



An. May, June. 



Stems mostly branched, leafy. Ls. alternate towards the root, 

 often opposite near the extremity of each branch : leaflets 

 mostly alternate, hairy. Stip. in pairs, acute, egg-shaped, mem- 

 branous. Fl. opposite to the Is. or axillary, lengthened ont, 

 umbellated, rose-coloured ; pet. inversely egg-shaped. Plant 

 not inodorous. 

 Appendages of the seeds in Erod. cicutarium, and Erod. Mos- 



' ilasdic, Ang. Sax. 



2 Erodios, Gr. a heron. H. 



' Beaks twisted like a cork-screw, bearded within. Abbot. 



