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THE GERANIUM FAMILY. 



Leaves divided to the base into 5 or more narrow 

 cut segments. 

 Peduncles much shorter than the leafstalks. 



Leaves much divided. Seeds dotted . . .11. Cut-leaved G. 

 Leaves small, the lower ones divided to the 



middle only. Seeds smooth . . . .9. Small-flowered G. 

 Peduncles and pedicels long and slender. Leaves 



much divided 12. Long-stalked G. 



Leaves orbicular, seldom divided below the middle. 

 Petals deeply notched. 



Petals twice as long as the calyx . . . . 5. Mountain G. 

 Petals not longer than the calyx .... 8. Dove's-foot G. 

 Petals entire or slightly notched. 



Leaves shortly divided into broad lobes. Seeds 



dotted 10. Round-leaved G. 



Leaves divided to the middle. Seeds smooth 9. Small-flowered G. 

 Two other Continental perennial species are included in some of ,our 

 Floras as having occasionally strayed from gardens ; the striate G. (G. 

 striatum), with long hairs on the stems, and rather large flowers, the 

 petals very pale, elegantly veined, and rather deeply notched ; and the 

 knotty G. (G. nodosum, Eng. Bot. t. 1091), 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. Blood Geranium 



Pig. isa 



Geranium sanguineum, Linn. 

 (Kg. 199.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 272.) 



Hootstock thick and woody, sometimes 

 creeping. Stems numerous, about a foot 

 long, decumbent or rarely erect, with 

 spreading hairs. Leaves nearly orbi- 

 cular, but divided to the base in 5 or 7 

 segments, w r hich 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, ob- 

 ovate, slightly notched, and very spread- 

 ing. 



In dry w T oods and pastures, in tem- 

 perate and southern Europe to the Cau- 

 casus, penetrating far into Scandinavia. 

 In Britain, it occurs in many localities 

 and yet is not very general. FL sum- 



