19. GEBASIACEJil. 71 



V. 164. — A large handsome tree. — In hedges and plantations 

 even in the North of Scotland. T. V. VI. Sycamore. E. S. 



Order XIX. GEEANIACEiE. 



Sep. 5, persistent, imhricate. Pet. 5, clawed, twisted in the 

 bud. Stam. generally monadelphous, 2 or 3 times as many as 

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

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

 which finally twists up, separating from the axis and carrying 

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

 dons convolute, plaited. — L. with stipules. 



1. Gekanium. Sep. 5. Pet. 5. Stam. 10, monadelphous, 

 alternately larger and with glands at their base, all perfect. 

 Oarp. rounded at the top ; the long ultimately recurved 

 beak glabrous internally. 



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

 5 fertile with glands at their base. Oarp. with 2 lateral 

 depressions at the top; the long ultimately spirally twisted 

 beak bearded internally. 



1. Geea'nium: Linn. Cranesbill. 



* Soot consisting of long fibres springing from a short thick 

 rhikome, perennial. 



fl . G. ph<s'um (L.) ; peduncles 2-flowered, pet. roundish 

 wedgeshaped rather longer than the mucronate sepals, carp, 

 hairy below transversely wrinkled above, seeds punctate-striate. 

 —E. B. 322. R. y. 197.— St. erect, 2 feet high. L. 6-lobed; 

 lobes acute, cut, serrate. Fl. purplish black, very rarely white. 

 ■ — In woods and thickets, rare. P. V. VI. E. 8. 



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

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

 minate serrate. — JE. B. 1091. — St. 18 in. high, slender, erect. Fl. 

 pale purple. — In Cumberland, Herts, and Yorksh. — O. striatum, 

 which resembles this but has a hairy stem, was found near 

 Filby, Cumb.; Chepstow, and near Plymouth. Colonists.] E. 



2. G. sylvat'icum (L.) ; peduncles 2-flowered, pet. obovate 

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

 spreading grandular, seeds dotted, 1. palmate 7-lobed, lobes cut 

 and serrate, st. erect glandular hairy above, ^fe»ie»fe of stam. 

 sidmlate, fruitstalks erect. — E.B. 121. — St. erect, 2— 3 feet high. 

 Fl. purplish blue, claws of the petals bearded, lower half of 



