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THE GERANIUM FAMILY. 



as long as the calyx. Filaments of the 

 stamens hairy, scarcely flattened. 



In moist woods and thickets, and 

 mountain meadows, throughout Europe 

 and Russian Asia, extending to the 

 Arctic regions. In Britain, chiefly in 

 western, central, and northern England, 

 Scotland, and northern Ireland. FL 

 summer. 



Fig. 201. 



4. Meadow Geranium. Geranium pratense, Linn. (Eig. 202.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 404.) 



Distinguished from the wood G., 

 chiefly by its more cut leaves, and larger 

 bluish-purple flowers loosely panicled on 

 longer peduncles ; the pedicels always 

 more 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, etc., widely spread over Eu- 

 rope and Russian Asia, but not an Arctic 

 species, although, like the last, chiefly a 

 mountain plant in southern Europe. In 

 Britain, rather less frequent than the 

 wood G., not extending so far north in 

 Scotland, but more widely spread in 

 southern England ; not recorded in the 

 Irish Elora. FL summer. 

 Fig. 202. 



