312 PHANEROGAMIA. 



the middle and at its summit, where it branches into a repeatedly 

 trichotomous, open and loose, many-flowered cyme. Bracts and bract- 

 lets ovate-lanceolate and subulate, scarious. Internodes of the cyme 

 from 5 to 12 lines long : the pedicels from one to 3 lines long, erect, 

 both in flower and in fruit. Sepals pubescent, ovate-oblong, mvucro- 

 nate, pubescent, with slightly scarious margins, 3 to 4 lines long. 

 Petals obovate, entire, glabrous, a little longer than the calyx, equal 

 and similar ; their colour undetermined. Glands opposite the sepals, 

 woolly. Stamens 10, all fertile and similar : filaments distinct, their 

 dilated bases obscurely hairy ; the five exterior ones a little shorter :• 

 anthers, &c, as- in the genus. Ovary and beak pubescent ; the latter 

 8 or 9 lines long. Styles little produced beyond the apex of the beak, 

 above which their bases only are united; in fruit separating elastically 

 from the base upwards, in the manner of the genus, glabrous inside. 

 Cocci minutely pubescent. Seed with a smooth and even testa. 



Plate 29, A. — Geranium multiflorum : a flowering branch, of the 

 natural size. Fig. 1. A sepal; inside view. 2. A petal. 3. Flower, 

 from which the calyx and corolla have been removed. 4. Vertical 

 section of a flower through the ovary, &c. — All the analyses mode- 

 rately magnified. 



8. Geranium cuneatum, Hook. (Tab. 29.) 



6. fruticosum; foliis coriaceis cuneatis apice scephis truncate 3-5-den- 

 tatis 6-7-nervatis ; pedunculis plurifhris vel abortta paucifloris ; sepalia 

 mucronulatis ; petalis albis. 



Var. a. Menziesii : foliis utrinqtde glahris seu glabeUis viridibus. (Tab. 

 29, B.) 



Geranium cuneatum, Hook. Ic. PI. t. 198. 



Var. /3 hypoleucum : foliis subtus sepalisque argenteo-incanis nitentibns, 

 (Tab. 29, G) 



Var. y. hololeucum : foliis utrinque sepalisque argenteo-incanis niten- 

 iibus. (Tab. 29, D.) 



