90 THE GERANIUM FAMILY. [ Geranium. 
Pedicels of the fruit spreading or reflexed. Flowers in 
aloose panicle . : & ° a ‘ ° - 4. G. pratense, 
Annuals, with small flowers. 
Leaves of 3 distinct Pearreue which are pinnately cut or 
divided . 6. G. Robertianum. 
Leaves palmately cut or divided into 5 or more lobes or seg- 
ments, 
Calyx pyramidal, with projecting angles. Petals entire, 
much longer than the sepals. 7. G. lucidum, 
Calyx scarcely angular. Petals about as long, unless deeply 
notched. 
Leaves divided to the base into 5 or more narrow cut seg- 
ments. 
Peduncles much shorter than the leafstalks. 
Leaves much divided. Seeds dotted . 1l. G. dissectum, 
Leaves small, the lower ones divided to the middle 
only. Seeds smooth - 9. G. pusillum. 
Peduncles and pedicels long and slend er, Leaves much 
divided . . 12. G. columbinum, 
Leaves orbicular, seldom divided below the middle. 
Petals deeply notched. 
Petals twice as long as the calyx . : 3 3 . 5. G. pyrenaicum. 
Petals not longer than the calyx . * c ‘ - 8. G. molle. 
Petals entire or slightly notched. 
Leaves shortly divided into broad lobes. Seeds dotted 10. G. rotundifolium. 
Leaves divided to the middle. Seeds smooth . . 9. G. pusillum. 
Two other Continental perennial species are included in some of our 
Floras as having occasionally strayed from gardens ;'G’. striatum, with long 
hairs on the stems, and rather large flowers, the petals very pale, elegantly 
veined, and rather deeply notched; and G. nodosum, a glabrous plant, the 
lobes of the leaves very pointed, and the petals of a purplish red, much less 
notched. G. macrorhizon and several other exotic perennials are also 
cultivated in our flower-gardens. 
1. G.sanguineum, Linn. (fig. 201). Blood Geranium.—Rootstock 
thick and woody, sometimes creeping. Stems numerous, about a foot long, 
decumbent or rarely erect, with spreading hairs. Leaves nearly orbicular, 
but divided to the base in 5 or 7 segments, which are again cut into 3 or 
5 narrow lobes. Flowers large, of a dark purple, growing singly on long, 
slender peduncles. Sepals hairy, with a fine point. Petals twice as long, 
obovate, slightly notched, and very spreading. 
In dry woods and pastures, in temperate and southern Europe to the 
Caucasus, penetrating far into Scandinavia. In Britain, it occurs in many 
localities, and yet is not very general. UV. summer. A more hairy variety 
with more flesh-coloured flowers, and of shorter growth, originally found - 
in the Isle of Walney, Lancashire, has been published as a species, under 
the name of G. lancastriense, With. 
2. G. pheeum, Linn. (fig. 202). Dusky Geranium.—Rootstock and 
general mode of growth of G. sylvaticum, but the stems are weaker, with 
fewer flowers, the leaves less deeply cut, with broader lobes, and the petals, 
of a dark, dingy purple colour, are broadly obovate, quite entire, and spread 
very open from the base, or are almost reflexed. 
In woods and meadows, in hilly districts, in central and western Europe, 
not extending to its eastern limits, and in northern Europe only as an 
introduced plant. In Britain, also believed to be an introduced plant, 
although said to be apparently wild in some poe of Westmoreland and 
Yorkshire, £7, all summer, 
