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_ t-seeded, awned, awns naked and straight. 
Mutt. 
1. G. erect, retrorsely pubescent; stem dichoto- maculatum. 
mous; leaves opposite, 3-5-parted, incised, 
upper ones sessile ; pecuncles elongated, two- 
flowered, petals obovate.—Hilld. 
Icon. Bart. Veg. Mat. Med. U.S. vol. 1. t. 13. 
Wild-geranium. Common Crane’s-bill. Spotted 
Crane’s-bill. 
A fine showy species, with large purple flowers. About 
fifteen or eighteen inches high. Possesses medicinal virtues. 
(See Veg. Mat. Med. U. S.) In shady woods, meadows, bor- 
ders of fields, and inhedges; very common. Perennial. June, 
July. 
2. G. diffuse, pubescent; leaves opposite, 5-lobed, Carolinian- 
trifid, incised; peduncles 2-flowered, subfasci-“" 
culate; petals emarginate, of the length of the 
awns of the calix, arillus, villose.—Willd. and 
Pursh. 
G. Carolinianum, ¢. album, Muhl. 
G. lanuginosum, Jacq. hort. schrenb. 2. t. 140. ‘ 
(Pursh.) | 
White-flowered Crane’s-bill. 
Almost procumbent, but very spreading. Flowers quite 
small, white. In the sandy fields of Jersey, and cultivated fields 
elsewhere ; common. Biennial. July. \ 
5. G. peduncles two-flowered, longer than the leaf, columbinum, 
leaves 5-parted; lobes multifid, linear, petals | 
emarginate; capsules smooth, seeds reticulate. 
—Smith, Willd. and Pursh. 
A small species, scarcely exceeding six inches in height, 
with deep purple flowers on a very long peduncle. On the 
borders of fields and thickets, near Woodbury ; common. I 
have not found it elsewhere. Annual. July. % 
4, G. peduncles 2-flowered, flowers pentandrous, P¥illum. 
petals emarginate, of the length of the awnless 
