GERANIACE^E. 



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mer. A 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. 



2. Dusky Geranium. Geranium phseum, Linn. (Fig. 200.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 322.) 



Hootstock and general mode of growth 

 of the wood G., 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 

 renexed. 



In woods and meadows, in hilly dis- 

 tricts, in central and western Europe, 

 not extending to its eastern limits, and 

 in northern Europe only as an intro- 

 duced plant. In Britain, also believed 

 to be an introduced plant, although said 

 to be apparently wild in some parts of 

 Westmoreland and Yorkshire. Fl. all 

 summer. V » 



Fig. 200 



3. Wood Geranium. 



Geranium sylvaticum, Linn. 

 (Fig. 201.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 121.) 



Hootstock very short, covered with the brow T n scarious stipules of the 

 old leaves. Stems erect or ascending, 1 to 2 feet high or rather more. 

 Radical leaves on long stalks, palmately divided almost to the base 

 with 5 or 7 pointed lobes more or less cut and serrated. Stem-leaves 

 few, on much shorter stalks. The upper part of the stem is repeatedly 

 forked, forming a rather dense, corymbose panicle of handsome pur- 

 plish flowers. Peduncles short, each with two flowers, on short pedicels, 

 which remain erect when the fruit ripens. Sepals ending in a fine point 

 above a line long. Petals obovate, slightly notched, scarcely twice 



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