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5. Mountain Geranium. Geranium pyrenaicum, Linn. 

 (Fig. 203.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 405.) 



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, two 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 cen- 

 tral and southern Europe to the Cau- 

 casus, but frequently naturalized 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. 



Fig. 203. 



6. Herb-Robert Geranium. Geranium Robertianum, L. 



(Fig. 204.) 



(Eng. Bot. f. 1486. 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. Se- 

 pals 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, etc., very common through- 



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