60 19. GERANIACEX. 
Order XIX. GERANIACE. 
Sep. 5, persistent, imbricated. Pet. 5, clawed, twisted in 
zstivation.. Stam. generally monadelphous, 2 or 3 times as 
many as the petals, some often abortive. Fruit of 5 carpels co- 
hering round a long beaked torus, each terminated by an indu- 
rated style which finally twists up, separating from the torus, 
and carrying with it the carpel. Seeds solitary, without albu- 
men. Cotyledons convolute, plaited. 
1. Geranium. Sep. 5. Pet. 5. Stam. 10, monadelphous, 
alternately larger and with glands at their base. Fruit 
beaked, separating into 5 1-seeded carpels, each with a long 
ultimately recurved awn glabrous internally. 
2. Eropium. Sep. 5. Pet. 5. Stam. monadelphous, 5 sterile, 
5 fertile with glands at their base. Fruit beaked, separating 
into 5 1-seeded carpels, each with a long ultimately spirally 
twisted awn bearded internally. 
1. Geranium Linn. Cranesbill. 
* Root consisting of long fibres springing from a premorse 
rhizome, perennial. 
1. G. pheum (L.); peduncles 2-flowered, pet. roundish wedge- 
shaped rather longer than the mucronate sepals, carp. hairy 
below transversely wrinkled above, seeds punctate-striate.—E. B. 
322. R. v.197.—St. erect, 2 feet high. IL. 5-lobed: lobes acute, 
cut, serrated. Fl. purplish-black, very rarely white.—In woods 
and thickets, rare. P. V. VI. E. S. 
[2. G. nodosum (L.); peduncles 2-flowered, pet. obcordate 
long, sepals awned, carp. even downy, 1. 3—5-lobed, lobes ovate 
acuminate serrate.—H. B. 1091.—St. 18 in. high, slender, erect. 
FL. pale pwple——In Cumberland and Hertfordshire. P. V.— 
VILL.—G. striatum which resembles this but has a hairy stem 
was found near Filby, Cumberland. Planted ?] E. 
3. G. sylvaticum (L.); peduncles 2-flowered, pet. obovate 
slightly notched long, sepals awned, carp. even hairy, hairs 
spreading glandular, seeds dotted, 1. palmate 7-lobed, lobes cut 
and serrated, st. erect glandular-hairy above, filaments of stam. 
subulate, fruitstalks erect.—E. B.121.—St. erect, 2—3 feet high. 
Fl. purplish-blue, claws of the petals bearded, lower half of fila- 
ments hairy. When the fl. are pale rose-coloured, pet. smaller 
and nearly entire, and st. more decidedly hairy, it is probably the 
a B. fastigiatum (Fries)—Woods and thickets, rare. P. VI. 
4. G. pratense (L.); ped. 2-flowered, pet. obovate entire or 
