Geranium.] geraniacea:. 97 



On shady rocks, walls, banks, thatched loofs, and in rough stony woods and 

 thickets ; one of our rarer species. Fl. May — Auf;usl. 0. 



E. Med. — On stone fences about St. Lawrence, and along the path ascending 

 from thence to Pelhatn woods, in plenty. Between Niton and Blackgang, abun- 

 dantly. Dr. Martin. Walls about Sir Willoughby Gordon's, near Niton, id. .'.'! 



W. Med. — Abundantly along the roadside on the right-hand hedgebank just 

 out of Calbourne, going to Newport. In plenty by the Newport road, about half 

 a mile from Shorwell towards Cheverton, and still more abundantly on both sides 

 of the lane leading up lo the down from the road on the right-hand before ascend- 

 ing the hill into Shorwell. All along the wall of West-cliff house, Niton. Be- 

 tween Newport and the barracks, Mr. Snooke, B. T. W. 



An elegant though not showy species, known from the last by its round smooth 

 leaves and smaller flowers. Root whitish, small and slender, with a few long 

 fibres at the end. Stems numerous, spreading or erect, round, solid, shining, 

 smooth and succulent, much and oppositely branched, swollen at the joints, where 

 they are exceedingly brittle, and becoming by age or exposure to light blood-red 

 in their lower part, chiefly 1^ — 2 feet in length. Leaves lucid green, shining, 

 opposite, stalked, the lower ones on very long petioles, a little hairy above, rotun- 

 dato -reniform, nearly orbicular, deeply 5-lobed, the lobes roundish wedge-shaped, 

 trifid, their segments rounded, slightly 3-cleft or notched and tipped with a minute 

 reddish and obtuse point. Stipules oblongo-lanceolate. Petioles a little downy. 

 Peduncles solitary, longer than the leaves, downy. Flowers on diverging pedicels, 

 much like those of G. Robertianum, but smaller, bright pink. Bracts at the 

 bifurcation of the pedicels, small, lanceolate, mostly coloured. Calyx ovato-pyra- 

 midal, acutely pentagonal, the angles winged, with an intermediate ridge or keel 

 and several (3 or 4) lateral transverse folds or puckers ; the sepals aristate, veiy 

 unequal in breadth, 2 of them lanceolate, white and membranous, with a green 

 keel, but no lateral wings or angles like the rest. Petals longer than the calyx, 

 obovate, entire, with long slender claws. Stamens 10, all perfect, their ^/ame»(s 

 flat, membranous and tapering, persistent after the falling away of the roundish 

 2-lobed yellow anthers ; pollen of several large yellow globules. Style tapering, 

 its 6 angles roughish on the upper part with bristly hairs pointing upwards ; stig- 

 mas 5, pale rose-coloured. Capsules brownish, compressed, a, little bristly with 3 

 rough longitudinal crests or keels and prominent lateral reticulations, separating 

 elastically when ripe by the action of the long tapering awns. Seeds pale reddish 

 brown, ovate or oblong, quite smooth. 



The bruised herb possesses, though in a much less degree, the unpleasant smell 

 of the last species. 



3. G. rotundifolium, L. Round-leaved Crane's-bill. Leaves 

 roundish or reniforin palmately lobed and cut downy, petals entire 

 the length of the calyx, capsules even hairy, seeds dotted. Br. FL 

 p. 84. E. B. t. 157. G. malvaceum, Burman : Wahlenb. Suec. 

 p. 434, n. 774. 



In rough stony thickets and pastures, on waste ground, walls and banks, but 

 very local. JFY. May — July. 0. 



E. ilfed.— Abundant at St. Lawrence, on hedgebanks near the church, and iii 

 great profusion in a rough field between it and the Priory or Woolverton, Rev. G. 

 E. Smith and Dr. Martin .'.'! Abundant below the cliffs a little North-east of 

 St. Lawrence's church. 



Root with several stout fibres. Steins numerous, much branched, spreadmg or 

 partly prostrate, about a foot high, forming a bushy heib, round, brittle, reddish, 

 and downy all over with soft spreading hairs. Leaves opposite, on very long 

 round footstalks, nearly circular in their outline, more or less deeply 5-lobed, the 

 lobes themselves variously cut and serrated, very soft and downy, especially 

 beneath. Stipulet reddish, lanceolate. Peduncles 2-flowered, axillary. Sepals 

 elliptical-lanceolate, with 3 strong nerves, ending in a straight short and obtuse 



