3^6 J^ONADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 



C L A S S I S XVI. 



MONADELPHIA 



DECANDRIA. 



GERANIUM. Gen. pL ^^2. 

 Monogyna. Stigmata 5. Fru5ius roftratus, 5-coccus. 

 * Staminibus quinque antheriferis, 

 cicutarium GERANIUM pedunculis multifloris, floribiis pen- 

 ^* tandris, foliis pinnatis incifis obtufis, caule ra- 



mofo. Lin, fyft, nat^ 454. Sp, pL 951. {Ger. em» 

 945./. 3, Moris, hifi, f. 5. /. 15. /. 9. Fet, herb, t, 

 65./. 3. Kiv'in, pent ap. irregul. t, 112. Jig, bona,) 

 Hemlock-leav'd Crane's-bill. Jnglis, 

 In dry paftures, on fandy fhores, and in wade 

 places under the walls of towns frequent. O, 

 V-VIII. 

 The leaves generally fpread fiat upon the ground, 

 are fometinies hairy and fometimes fmooth, and 

 confift of a long feries of nearly equal pinn^^ 

 which are felTiIe and iharply pinnatifid : the pe- 

 duncles arife from the alrv of the leaves : the 

 fiipul<£ are oval, filmy, and white : the caly:>c a 

 little hairy and open : the petals (which are al- 

 v/ays five in this genus) elliptical, red, and a 

 little unequal, the two upper ones being fome- 



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