ERANIUM pyrenaicum. perennial DoVES-FOOt CrANESBILL. 



GERANIUM Lin. Gen. PL Monadelphia Decandria. 



Monogyna. Stigmat. 5. FruSlus roftratus, 5-coccus. 



Rail Syn. Gen. 24. Herbje pentapetalje vasculiferje. 

 GERANIUM pyrenaicum pedunculis bifloris, foliis inferioribus quinquepartito-multifidis, rotundatis ; 



fuperioribus trilobis, caule erecto. Linn. Syjl. Vegetab.p. 514. 

 GERANIUM pedunculis bifloris, foliis multifidis, laciniis obtufis, insequalibus, petalis bifidis. Gerard. 



FLGallo-prov.p. m.fig. 16. 2. Hud/on Fl. Angl. ed 2. p. 302, Lightfoot Fl. Scot. p. 367. 



RADIX perennis. 



CAULES fuberecti, pubefcentes, pedales, et ultra, ra- 

 mofi, geniculate geniculis paululum incraf- 

 fatis. 



FOLIA radicalia rotundata, hirfutula, venofa, margine 

 fsepe rubicunda, feptemlobata, lobis fubtri- 

 fidis, laciniis obtufiufculis, mucronatis, in- 

 termedia majore ; caulina oppofita, lobis pau- 

 cioribus, iifque poftice magis remotis. 



FLORES majufculi, purpurei, antequam aperiuntur 



nutantes, poftea eredti. 

 CALYX : Perianthium quinquepartitum, laciniis 



ovato-lanceolatis, brevi mucrone fufco obtu- 



iiufculo terminatis, trinervibus, ciliatis, fub- 



vifcofis. jig. 1. 

 COROLLA : Petal a quinque, calyce duplo longi- 



ora, obcordata, apice bifida, ball villofa.j^-. 2. 



NECTARIUM : Glandule quinque flavefcentes ad baiin 

 Staminum. jig. 5. 



STAMINA : Filamenta decern, alba, apice pur- 

 purafcentia ; Anthers coerulefcentes ; Pol- 

 len album, globofum. Anthers extus pofitae 

 pollen prae ceteris dimittunt, et dein deci- 

 dunt, nunquam vero abortiunt. jig. 3. 



PISTILLUM : Germen pentagonum, viride ; Stylus 

 fulcatus ; Stigmata quinque, longitudine 

 Antherarum. fig. 4. 



FRUCTUS pentacoccus, Arillus carinatus, hirfutulus. 

 fig- 6. 



SEMEN ovatum, fufcum, laeve. 



PETIOLI radicates, praelongi, teretes, pubefcentes, fi y 



difcindantur extremitatibus fuis puncta qua- | 



tuor alba exhibentes. 

 STIPULE ad fingula genicula quaternas, utrinque 



binae, genicula ambientes, bifidae, vel trifi- 



dae, rubentes, perfifrentes. 

 PEDUNCULI pubefcentes, bifidi, biflori, Pedicelli 



longitudine pedunculi, bail ftipulis quaternis 



minoribus notati. 



ROOT perennial. 



STALKS nearly upright, and downy, a foot high, or 

 more, branched, and jointed, the joints a lit- 

 tle fwelled. 



LEAVES of the root of a roundifh figure, fomewhat 

 hirfute, and veiny, the edge often reddifh, 

 divided into feven lobes, each ofwhich ia fub- 

 divided into about three bluntifh fegments^ 

 terminated by a fhort point, the middle leg- 

 ment the largeft ; thofe of the jlalk oppofite, 

 compofed of fewer lobes, and thole more 

 widely feparating behind. 



LEAF- STALKS next the root very long, round, and 

 downy, exhibiting if cut acrofs four white 

 dots on their extremities. 



STIPUL/E I four at each joint, two on each fide, fur- 

 rounding the joint, divided into two or three 

 fegments, of a reddifh colour and permanent. 



FLOWER-STALKS downy, bifid, fupporting two 

 flowers, Partial fiower-ftalks the length of 

 the general one, and furnifhed at bottom with 

 four fmaller ftipuhe. 



FLOWERS largilh and purple, before they open hang- 

 ing down, afterwards becoming upright. 



CALYX : a Perianthium divided into five oval 

 pointed fegments, terminated by a fhort brown 

 bluntifh point, having three ribs, edged with 

 hairs, and nightly clammy, jig. 1. 



COROLLA : five Petals twice the length of the 

 calyx, inverfely heart fhaped, bifid at top, at 

 bottom villous, jig. 2. 



NECTARY : five yellowifh Glands placed at the bot- 

 tom of the Stamina, jig. 5. 



STAMINA : ten Filaments, purplifh at top, An- 

 thers blueifh ; Pollen white and globular. 

 The outer row of antheras fried their pol en 

 firft and then drop off, but are never infertile. 

 fig- 3> 



PISTILLUM: Germen five corner'd, of a green co- 

 lour; Style grooved ; Stigmata five, the 

 length of the Antherae. fig. 4. 



FRUIT compofed of five prominent feeds, feed-cover- 

 ing mark'd with a prominent line, and flightly 

 hirfute. fig. 6. 



SEED oval, brown j and fmooth. 



The great fimilarity exifting between the prefent Geranium, the molle, and rotundifolium, has occafioned no fmall 

 confufion among the fynonyms of Authors, which as Haller obferves, are covered with impenetrable obfcurity. 



Neverthelefs an attentive obfervance of the plants themfelves, as they grow wild, will fhew that they may be 

 diftinguifhed without any great difficulty. In treating of the molle which is the moft liable to be miftaken for 

 this fpecies, I obferved that it was fubject. to many varieties, particularly in the colour of its bloflbms, that its 

 ftalks, always procumbent when the plant grew alone, were liable to grow upright among grafs and herbage and 

 that in fome rich paftures the flowers approached almoft to the fize of thofe of the prefent plant.— Having culti- 

 vated moft of our Englifh Geraniums 1 can with certainty declare that the molle is ftriaiy an annual, and the py- 

 renaicum perennial, this then conftitutes an eflential difference between the two, befides, the pyrenaicum ufually 

 grows to twice the fize, its blofloms alfo are more than thrice as large, it is never procumbent but always 

 nearly upright, and it is likewife, with us at leaft, a much fcarcer plant. ' 



Mons : Gerard in his Flora Galloprovincialis has the merit of firft giving an accurate defcription and figure of this 

 plant, he fuppofes it to be the Geranium columbinum perenne pyrenaicum maximum of Tournefort whence Lin- 

 NiEUS has given it the name of pyrenaicum-, Mr. Hudson in the firft edition of his Flora Anglica called it terenne 

 but in the laft he has adopted the name of Linnjeus, I have hitherto found this plant growing; wild in one fpot 

 only, viz. in the dry part of the pafturage in Batterfea Fields, on the left hand fide of the road as you pafs from 

 London by the Thames fide, betwixt the Red Houfe and Chelfea Bridge. 



In Chelfea Garden it comes up as a weed and is there found alfo with white flowers. 

 It blows in June and July. 



