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hairy and terminated with a beard: the Petals 

 arc blue, flreaked with red veins, not emar- 

 ginated, but obtufe and entire at the top : the 

 Jiyle is longer than ihtftamina. 

 It is reckon'd a vulnerary, but is out of ufe. 



**'* Staminihus 10 anther if er is. 

 \ Fedunculis hijloris, O. 



rohertia^ GERANIUM pedunculis bifloris, calvcibus pilofis 

 num 5. decemangulatis. Sp. pi. 955. (Ger em. g^(^, Mo- 



ris, hift. f. 5„ t. 15. /, II. ?et. herb, t, ^S-f* 5- 

 Blackwell t, 480) 



Herb Robert. Ayiglis. 



Upon rocks and ftoney places. ^ . V. VI. 



The whole plant is often of a reddifh color, cover'd 

 with white hairs, and fmells like a goat : the 

 leaves are doubly pinnated, the exterior pinna 

 running together at the bafe, and the fegments 

 terminated with a red fpinula^ or (harp hair : the 

 calyx is hairy, bearded, and ftreaked with ten 

 prominent lines, the firft and third leaf having 

 three of thefe lines, the fecond and fifth one only, 

 and the fourth two ; the petals are roundifh and 

 entire at the top, of a red color, with white veins. 

 It varies fomecimes with a white flower, but wtvy 

 rarely. 



It is reckoned aftringent. and vulnerary, but is fel- 

 dom ufed in medicine. 



It is faid that the Imell of the brulfed herb will 

 drive away bugs. 



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