GERANIUM PARVIFLORUM. SMALL-FLOWERED 
CRANE’S BILL 
GERANIUM. Linn. Gen. P. MowAp£ELPHIA DECANDRiA. 
Monogyna. Stigmata 5.  Fruchus roffratus, pentacoccus. 
Rar Syn. Gen. 94. HERB& PENTAPETALJE VASCULIFERA. 
GERANIUM parviflorum caule {ubpubefcente, floribus pentandris, petalis emarginatis, arillis lzevibus 
ilis appreffis veltitis. 3 | 
‘GERANIUM »puf//um pedunculis bifloris, petalis bifidis, caule depreffo, foliis reniformibus palmatis 
~ linearibus acutis, Linn. Sy/t. Veg. p. 618. Spec. Plant. p. 957. — Mantifi. 435. 
Burm. Geran. 23. 
GERANIUM pujillum caule herbaceo ramofo, foliis fubrotundo-lobatis, lobis trifidis, floribus 
 pentandris ceeruleis. Cavanilles Difs. p. 202. tab. 89. f. 1. 
GERANIUM foliis hirfutis, femifeptilobis, lobis femitrilobis, obtufis. Ha//. Hi/?. 940. 
GERANIUM malvefolium. Scopoli FI. Carniol. ed. 9. n. 847. 1 
GERANIUM columbinum majus, flore minore caeruleo. Raz? Hf. Plant. b. 1059. — Synopf. p. 358. 
The greater blue-flowered Dovesfoot-Cranefbill. Vasil. Parif. tab. 15. f. 1. 
minimis- 

RADIX annua, teres, libro. rubefcens. 9 ROOT annual, round, fibrous, reddifh. 
CAULES diffufi, fubpedales, teretes, pallide virides 9 STALKS fpreading, about a foot long, pale green, 
aut fubrubentes, vix pubefcentes, ramofi. Q or fometimes reddifh, very flightly downy, 
| Q branched. 
FOLIA fubrotunda, feptemfida, laciniis patentibus, tri- 6 LEAVES roundifh, divided into feven lobes, the lobes 
fidis, obtufis, quibufdam profundius partitis, @ trifid, obtufe, fome of them more deeply di- 
finubus acutiufculis ; venola, villofa, mollia, 
pallide viridia; radicalia longiffime petiolata ; 
caulina oppofita, magnitudine inzqualia, lon- 
gitudine pedunculis fubzequalia, lacinüs acu- 
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tioribus. | 
vided, the finufes rather acute; veiny, villous, 
foft, pale green ; the radical ones on very long 
footftalks; the ftalk-leaves oppofite, of an 
unequal fize, nearly as long as the peduncles, 
their lobes more acute. 
STIPULAZE lanceolate, broad at bottom, red, fhining, 
STIPULZE lanceolatz, bafi late, rubra, nitentes, la- 
-ciniis acutis, ciliatis. A fegments fharp, edged with hairs. 
FLORES minuti, purpureo-cerulei. _ FLOWERS very fmall, of a purplifh blue colour. 
PEDUNCULI fubunciales, axillares, folitarii, biflori. 9 PEDUNCLES from the axilla, about an inch long, 
! two-flowered. 
BRACTE feu Involucra füpulis fimilia, modo bre- & BRACTE/E or Involucra like 
viora. fmaller. 
CALYX: Prertanruium pentaphyllum, foliolis ovatis, 6 CALYX: a PeriantTu1um of five leaves, which are 
acutis, furfum pilofis, ftriatis, albo marginatis; 0 ovate, acute, covered with hairs which point 
duobus exterioribus latioribus, fig. 1. upwards, ftriated, with a white margin, the 
two outer ones wider than the reft, fg. 1. 
COROLLA a little larger than the calyx, bell-fhaped 
and open, confifting of five obcordate, emar-- 
6 ginated petals, jig. 2. 
NECTARIUM: GianpuL# 5 virides, cum petalis 0 NECTARY: five green GrANpULEs, placed alter- 
alternantes, jig. 3. auct. nately with the petals, jg. 3. magnified. 
STAMINA: Fitamenta decem germen cingentia, 9 STAMINA: ten FinaAMENTS furrounding the germen, 
quorum quinque longiora, fertilia, quinque 3 five of which are longer and fertile, the other 
the füpule, but 

COROLLA calyce paulo major, campanulato-hians 
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petalis 5 obcordatis, emarginatis, //g. 2. : 
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alterna breviora, fterilia, fig. 4, 5. ANTHERA 6 five fhorter and flere, fig. 4,.5. The five 
uinque, fubovate, coerulex, jig. 6. 6 ANTHER£ are nearly ovate, and blue, fig. 6. 
PISTILLUM uti in affinibus, jig. 7. 6 PISTILLUM as in the other, fig. z 
SEMINA folitaria, reniformia, glabra, arillata, rufa. 0 SEEDS folitary, kidney-fhaped, fmooth, reddifh, co- 
AmnILLI caudati, pallide fufci, leves, pilis Q vered with an arillus. The AnirLus pale 
albis, longitudinaliter adpreffis, obfiti, fg. 8. 0 brown, fmooth, with white longitudinal hairs 
auct. fig. 9. i preffed clofely to it, //g. 8. magnified at fg. 9. 
While fome Botanifts have confounded this fpecies with the mo//e already figured in this work, others have 
miftaken it for the rotundifolium, from both of which it is fpecifically different: Ray and VaiLLant, among the 
older Botanifts, appear to have had a perfectly clear idea of it, as 1s evident from the defcription of the one and 
the figure of the other; in the third edition of Ray’s Synopfis, DitrzNius has defcribed and. figured a plant 
which he calls Geranium columbinum humile flore ceruleo minimo; this plant was firt adopted by Linn aus 1n his 
Spec. Plantar. under the name of pu/il/um, as appears from his referring to this very figure, a name applicable 
enough to DiLLentus’s plant as figured by him, but not to Ray’s and VAILLANTS, which is the one here 
intended. Whether Ditienrvs’s plant be a fünted variety of ours, or a diftinét fpecies, we fhall not take upon 
us at prefent to determine; if the former, his figure, like that of his Ceraffzum femidecandrum, has contributed 
greatly to miflead; if the latter, the name of pu///um would appear to be a very proper one, and may at any 
time be made ufe of. ; 
Notwithftanding there are flrong reafons for fuppofing, from obfervations made in the latter works of 
Linn aus, that our plant is his puw/i//um, we have thought a name fo very inapplicable ought not to remain as a 
ftumbling-block, and have therefore fubftituted parviflorum, as coinciding with Ray’s defcription. "y 
Having already defcribed this plant minutely, we fhall only mention a few of the ftriking characters in which 
it differs from the mol/e; in what refpett it varies from rotundifolium, will be particularly {pecified when we 
figure that plant. Aii M. ; 
At firft fight it differs from the mo//e, in having its leaves more divided, of a paler and more yellow colour, 
its bloffoms much fmaller, of a bluer and lefs brilliant hue; more clofely examined, the ftalks are {carce 
perceptibly hairy, or but flightly pubefcent, the leaves z7 general grow oppofite, frequently not fo towards the 
top of the ftalks, and are more open behind; the ftamina bearing anthera are never more than five, and the 
' arillus, or coat of the feed, inftead of being tranfverfely wrinkled, as we have figured it in the molle, is compa- 
ratively {mooth : for this latter diftinGtion, which is a yery effential one, and indeed, I may fay, for the difcovery 
of the plant, I am indebted to the fuperior difcernment of my much-efteemed and ingenious friend Mr. Davat, 
of Orbe in Switzerland. i ! | 
On the Weft fide of London, particularly in the neglected gardens, and fallow-fields about Little-Chelfea, 
where the foil is light, this fpecies 1s quite a weed; on the Eaftern fide, at leaft near the metropolis, it is more 
rarely found: in many parts of England it grows equally common with the mo//e, than which it ufually forms 
a larger tuft, and fometimes varies with white flowers. 
It bloffoms in June and July. ; 
