70 ' 19.' GBEA'NIAOEie. 



the petals, some often abortive. Fruit of 5 carpels cohering 

 round a long beaked axis, each terminated by an ihdurated style 

 whicb finally twists: up, aepaiating from the axis, and carrying 

 with it the carpel. Seeds solitary, without albumen. Cotyle- 

 dons convolute, plaited. 



1. Geranittm. Sep. 6. Pet. 5., Stam. 10, monadelphous, 

 alternately larger and with glands at their base. Carp. 



' rounded at. the top ; the long ultimately recurved beak gla- 

 brous internally. 



2. Ebodium. Sep. 5. Pet. 5. Stam. monadelphous, 6 sterile, 

 5 fertile witk glands at, their base. Carp, with 2 lateral 

 depressions at the top 5 the long ultimately spirally twisted 

 beak bearded internally. 



1 . GbeaJniitm lAnn. CranesbiU. 



* ^oot consisting of long fibres springing from a short thick 

 ''''•'■ rhizome j perennial. ' 



; tl- G. phm'um (L.),; peduncles 2-flow-ered, pet. roundish 

 ■wedgesh,aped^ rather longer than the mucrona,te sepals, carp, 

 hairy below transversely wrinMed, above, s^eds, pimctate-striate. 

 — R. V. 197. — St. erect, 2 feet high. L. 5-lpbed; lobes acute 

 cut, serrate. Fl. purplish black, very rarely white. — In woods 

 ajid thickets, rare. P. V. VI. , ; E. S. 



[ G. noddsum (L.) ; peduncles 2-flowered, pet. obcordate long, 

 sepals awned, carp, downy even, 1. 3 — 5-lobed, lobes ovate acu- 

 minate serrate. — St. 18 in. high, slender, erect. Fl. pale purple. 

 — In Cumberland and Herts, and Yorksh.-f— <?. striatum, which 

 resembles this but has a hairy stem, was found pear Filby, 

 Cumb., and, Chepstow. — Both planted ?] ' E. 



2., , (?. sylvatHcum (L.) ; pedulicles .2-flow&r«d,' pet. obovate 

 slightly notched long, sepals awned, carp, hairy even, hairs 

 spreading glandular, seeds dotted,!, palmate 7-lobed, lobes cut 

 ,and serrate, st, erect: glandular hairy above, Jilaments of stam. 

 subulate, fruitstalks erect i — St. erect, 2 — 3 feet high. FL pur- 

 plish blue, claws of the petals bearded, lower half of filaments 

 hairy. Sometimes the 1. are pale rose-coloured, pet. smaller 

 and nearly entire, and st. more decidedly hairy. — Woods and 

 thickets in the North, rare. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 



3. G. praten'se (L.)'; ped. 2-flowered., pet. obovate entire or 

 slightly notched long, 'sepals awned, carp, hairy e^ven,^ hairs 

 spreading glandular,. seeds minutely netted, 1. palmate 7-iob6d, 



