CRANES-BILL FAllILY lOI 



3,* G. iwdflsmn, a similar species, with glabrous stem and red 

 JImucrs, is also an escape. 



4.* G. pha-um (]:)usky Crane's-bill).~A tall, erect plant with 

 leaves 5 — 7-lobed, serrate; dingy, purplish-black flowers with 

 mucronate sepals : and carpels hairy below, wrinkled above, not 

 uncommon in gardens, occurs also as an escape in plantations. — 

 Fl. ?\[av, June. Perennial. 



5. G.sylvdtieum (Wood rr-tne'.$-bil!).— A tall, erect, hairy species; 



GEeXnium PRATiNSfi {Mcadovj Cranc s-bi^Ll). 



leaves palmate, 7-lobed, lobes cut and serrate ; floivers imrplish- 

 blue or rose-colour ; petals with bearded claws ; stamens awl- 

 shaped, fringed ; carpels hairy ; fruit-stalks 'erect. — "Woods and 

 pastures, chiefly in the north ; rare. — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



6. G. praiense (Meadow Crane's-bill). — The largest British 

 species, erect, downy, som-rtimes 4 feet high ; differing from the 

 last in having stalks to thu cauline leaves ; narrow stipules : larger, 

 blue-purple_^i?zc'i;n', over an inch across ; very large points to the 

 sepals ; more slender and less hairy filame//ts ; and deflexed fruit- 



