Geranium.] geramack^. 99 



with a broad conspicuous green keel down the centre, not found in those of G. 

 molle. Seeds oblong:, subreniform, slightly compressed, dull brown, smooth. 



The herbage is destitute of the faint musky smell perceptible in that of G. 

 molle when fresh gathered. 



6. G. dissectum, L. Cut-leaved Crane's-bill. Peduncles 2- 

 flowered shorter than the leaves, root- and lower stem-leaves 

 reniform-orbicular deeply and palmately 5- — 7 partite, the lobes 

 cnneate trifid with 3 — 5 cleft bluntish segments, uppermost leaves 

 laciniate, the segments very narrow linear acute, pedicels, calyx 

 and styles glandulso - pubescent, sepals awned ovato - elliptical 

 much longer than broad, petals emarginate shorter than the 

 calyx-awns, carpels hispid not wrinkled, seeds conspicuously 

 areolate pttnctate. Br. Fl. p. 85. E. B. t. 753. 



In dry gravelly fields, pastures, waste and cultivated ground, on banks and 

 along hedges ; very pleutitul. Z'/. May— Oclober. -Fr. June. 0. 



Root annual, long, slender, not much branched or fibrous, pale brown. Stems 

 1 or more, from a foot or under to 2 or 3 feet long, weak and straggling, ascend- 

 ing at base and reclining, or widely spreading, decumbent and ]n-ostrate ; in the 

 smaller specimens or when growing amongst other herbage erect or nearly so, and 

 according to the size sparingly or considerably dichotomously branched, pale 

 green or here and there tinged with red, subcorapressed and somewhat angular, a 

 little enlarged or tumid at each node on its upper side, copiously clothed with 

 white mostly deflexed pubescence, sometimes so abundantly as to be quite hoary, 

 the hairs on the greater part of the stem simple, but at the extreme portion wholly 

 or partially gland-tipped and spreading, as they are on the peduncles, calyx and 

 fruit. Leaves all reniform-orbicular in outline, very deeply 5-parted, the lobes 

 wedge-shaped, mostly 3-cleft, the segments again bifidly or trifidly incised, une- 

 qual, entire, broad and obtuse in the lower, narrower and acute in the upper 

 leaves, light green above, paler beneath, roughish pubescent on both sides with 

 white rigid hairs pointing forward, and with which the margins of the leaves are 

 likewise fringed, strongly ribbed on the under side, the rib setosely pubescent. 

 Petioles opposite the branches at the forks, very hairy, of the root-, lower and 

 even middle stem-leaves extremely long, those of the fiist often a foot or more in 

 length, of the uppermost leaves very short or nearly obsolete. Stipules, — a pair 

 at the base of each petiole, purplish red or sometimes uncoloured, erect, lanceo- 

 late, with long tapering points ; entire, bifid, or slightly toothed or lobed, stronnly 

 fringed. Peduncles 2- or occasionally 3-flowered, in the forks of the branches, 

 greatly lengthened out after flowering, mostly much shorter than the leaves, hairy 

 like the pedicels and calyx. Calyx and pedicels shortish, hairy, a little enlarged 

 upwards and somewhat unequal, each with a pair of subulate coloured bracts at 

 base, at length curved or ascending in fruit. Flowers small, appearing as it were 

 nestled amongst the upper leaves, seldom much expanded except when exposed 

 to full suijshine. Calyx longer than the petals by nearly the length of the awns, 

 villous with mostly gland-tipped hairs ; sepals persistent, enlarged after flowering, 

 entire, unequal in breadth, 2 of them narrower and elliptic-lanceolate, the 3 others 

 ovato-elliptical, plane or a little concave, and traversed by 3 — 5 prominent very 

 broad ribs, their margins very narrowly scarious or membranaceous, their obtuse 

 summits tipped with a production of the midrib into a cylindrical or flatiened 

 blunt awn, about J of their own length. Petal.i very fugacious, bright (lurplish 

 pink or deep rose-colour, shorter than the calyx-awn, cunealo-obcordafe, broadly 

 or retusely emarginate, with 3—5 very distinct pellucid nerves suddenly con- 

 tracted into short, very pointed, colourless claws, just above which are a few white 

 hairs or ciliae. Stamens all perlect, about i as long as the petuls, deciduous, the 

 5 exterior rather shorter than the rest ; filaments greenish, much fl.ittened and 

 ciliated, somewhat fringed ; anthers dWnie violet-blue or «hite, the commissures 

 deep blue, suborbicular, very tint at ihe back; pullen globose, bluish. Styles as 



