100 GERANiACE^. [Geranium. 



long as the 5 inner stamens, their free summits {stigmas) shortly spreading, yel- 

 lowish and glandulose, purplish behind, very obtuse, persistent, their cohering part 

 forming the beak, rough with erect finally spreading hairs, which are all gland- 

 tipped, but intermixed with shorter and simple pubescence, those on the finely 

 punctate ovaries at their base for the most part simple as on the stem and leaf- 

 stalks. Carpels blackish brown, ovoid or subgloliose, not wrinkled, hispid all over 

 with shortish, pale, erect, mostly simple hairs, a few capitate ones descending from 

 the cohering styles being commonly intermixed, and together with the beak of the 

 cohering styles 6 or 7 lines in length. Seeds dull dark brown, ovoido-globose, 

 glabrous, very conspicuously and copiously reticulated with angular cells, of nearly 

 the form and regularity of a honeycomb. 



There is ihe greatest affinity betwixt onr European plant and the G. carolinia- 

 num of N. America, so much indeed that the specific characters laid down in the 

 books will not avail to distinguish them. I have carefully examined the latter in 

 its native soil, where, in the southern atid western pans of the United States, it is 

 an abundant weed everywhere in waste and cultivated ground, with perfectly the 

 habit of its congener, G. dissectum. From the description I drew up at the time 

 from fresh specimens, and aided by a good series of dried ones collected by myself 

 in Louisiana in May, 1847, I am enabled to state the differences between them, 

 with, I trust, greater precision than has yet been accomplished. The leaves of G. 

 carolinianmn are in general less deeply parted than in G. dissectum, the segments 

 usually shorter and broader, those of the uppermost leaves particularly are less laci- 

 niately divided, and more resemble the lower and radical leaves; the hairs on the 

 calyces, pedicels and beak of the carpels are simple, with scarcely any intermix- 

 ture of gland-tipped setae ; the sepals are decidedly broader and more truly ovate, 

 at least the 3 larger, which are nearly as broad as long, with more distant ribs, 

 their sides often bent backwards like wings, which is not the case in our plant; 

 the flowers are less conspicuous, the petals extremely pale or nearly colourless, 

 somewhat abrupt or truncate at top, with the emargination oblique or unequal, the 

 anthers white, the hairs on the mature carpels much (about twice) longer or nrore 

 shaggy, and blackish ; seeds larger than in G. dissectum, paler, much less dis- 

 tinctly and more superficially areolale, the meshes rather oblong and far less 

 equal in form and dimensions. 



7. G. columhinum,lj. Long-stalked Crane's-bill. "Peduncles 

 longer than the leaves which are 5-partite, the lobes divided into 

 many acnte segments, petals entire as long as the much-awned 

 calyx, capsules even glabrous, seeds dotted." — Br. Fl. p. 85. 

 E. B. t. 259. 



In woods, thickets, pastures, waste places and by roadsides, on dry gravelly or 

 calcareous soils ; not very frequent. Fl. June — October. ©. 



E. Med. — On a furzy spoi on St. George's Down. On Ninham hill (sandy 

 heath), near Slianklin. Field between Bloodstone and Eagle-head copses, very 

 sparingly. Abundantly in a sloping wood called Wearnhill copse, near Yarbridge, 

 on the rifjht of the road from thence to Bembridge and Yaverland, and nearly 

 facing the town of Brading. On a chalky bank by the roadside close to Yar- 

 bridge, towards Yaverland. Fields near Beinbridge Down, Wm. Wilson Saun- 

 ders, Esq. 



IV. Med. — In Bottom-ground copse (where Fmca TOj'nor grows), near Idle- 

 cotnbe. Apparently not uiifrcquent in chalky thickets under Buccombe Down, 

 &c. Woods in the valley at Ajies Down and various places about Carisbrooke. 

 In Sluccombe copse, a little W. of Rounhborough farm. Roadside near Afton 

 farm. Freshwater. Generally diffused over the whole chalk district of the South- 

 west of the island. 



G. pyrenaicnm P Reichenb. (notofjSiH. and Brit, authors). — About Steephill 

 and Bonchurch, J. A. Hankey, Esq. Mr. H. finds a plant, not uncommonly, at 

 the b:ick of the island closely resembling G. molle, but having the capsules neither 



