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or less spreading or reflexed after flowering. The filaments are also 
much flattened in their lower part, and the claws of the petals ciliated 
on the edge, not bearded inside. 
In meadows, woods, and thickets, roadsides, &c., widely spread over 
Europe and Russian Asia, but not Arctic, although, like the last, 
chiefly a mountain plant in southern Europe. In Britain, not so 
frequent as G. sylvaticum, not extending so far north in Scotland, but 
more widely spread in southern England; very rare in Ireland. Fl. 
summer. 
5. G. pyrenaicum, Burm. f. (fig. 206). Mountain G.—A perennial, 
like the last four species, but with smaller flowers, and much of the 
habit of the annual ones. Stems often 2 feet long or more, and 
branched, more or less covered with short, soft hairs. Leaves orbicular, 
deeply cut into 5 or 7 coarsely toothed, usually obtuse lobes. Flowers 
numerous, on slender pedicels, 2 together on each peduncle. Sepals 
scarcely 2 lines long. Petals about twice their length, pale purple and 
veined, deeply notched. 
A native of the hilly districts of central and southern Europe to 
the Caucasus, but frequently naturalised on roadsides and waste places 
further to the north. In Britain it appears to be fully established in 
several parts of England, southern Scotland, and Ireland. Fl spring 
and summer. 
6. G. Robertianum, Linn. (fig. 207). Herb-Robert.—An erect or 
spreading much-branched annual, 6 inches to near a foot high, generally 
bearing a few soft hairs, often turning bright red in all its parts, and 
smelling disagreeably when rubbed. Leaves divided into 3 pinnate 
or twice pinnate segments, never orbicular or palmate (except the 3 
primary divisions). Flowers rather small. Sepals hairy, with long 
points. Petals reddish-purple or rarely white, sometimes nearly twice 
the’ length of the calyx, obovate and entire, with glabrous, erect claws. 
Carpels glabrous, with a few transverse wrinkles, 
In stony and waste places, open woods, &c., very common through- 
out Hurope, Russian and central Asia, and northern America, short of 
the Arctic Circle. Abundant in Britain. Fl. the whole season. A 
maritime variety, with thicker leaves and smaller flowers, is G. pur- 
pureum, Willd. 
7. G. lucidum, Linn. (fig. 208). Shining G.—An annual, often turn- 
ing red like @. Robertianwm, but always glabrous and shining, and the 
leaves are orbicular and palmately lobed, with broad segments usually 
obtuse, or rarely slightly pointed. It is easily distinguished from all 
our Geraniums by the pyramidal calyx, the edges of the erect sepals 
forming very projecting angles. Petals like those of G. Robertianum, 
but smaller, 
In stony and waste places, on old walls, &c., in Europe and central 
Asia, extending northwards into Scandinavia. Generally distributed 
over Britain, rarer in northern Scotland. lV. spring and swmmer. 
8. G. molle, Linn. (fig. 209). Dove’s-foot G.—An annual, often tufted 
at the base, more or less covered. with rather long, soft, spreading 
hairs ; the stems weak and spreading, very short when first flowering, 
and seldom attaining a foot. Radical leaves numerous, on very long 
stalks, orbicular, rather above an inch diameter, divided to below the 
middle into 7 to 11 obovate or wedge-shaped lobes, which are again 
