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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. 



Jn 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 Europe, 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- 

 pur eum, Willd. 



7. Q-. lucidum, Linn. (fig. 208). Shining G. — An annual, often turn- 

 ing red like G. Robertianum, 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. Fl. spring and summer. 



8. Gr. 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 



