CL. XVI.] 23. GERANIUM ROTUNDIFOLIUM. 407 



Jacq. Fl Austr. t. 23. Fl Dan. 731. 9^3. Engl BoL 

 942. SM. t. 183. 

 Cheiranthus turritoides, Lam. Enc. 2. 716. 



Geographical Distribution. 



This plant is found from 68« to 44<> N. Lat., throughout 

 the whole northern hemisphere. It grows in Lapland, Sibe- 

 ria, and North America ; but it does not grow farther south 

 than thq South of France. 



CLASS XVL 



Geranium rotundifoliura, L. 



Rundblattrigger Storchschnabel.— French, Geranium a feu^ 

 illes rondes. — Engl. Dove'' s foot CranesbilL.'^Swed. Gard 

 Storhnqf, 



This plant flowers about the middle of summer, in gar- 

 dens and fruitful fields. From a soft, fibrous root arise se- 

 veral herbaceous, roundish stems, furnished with soft, white, 

 erect hairs, somewhat glutinous, much branched, of the thick- 

 ness of a thread, and from one to two feet high. The branches 

 and leaf-stalks stand opposite to one another, and, where 

 they grow, the stem and branches ^re somewhat thickened 

 and reddish. Among these divisions stand reddish, mem- 

 branaceous, lanceolate, pointed leafy appendages, which in 

 time become dry, and fall ofi*. The leaf- stalks, which are 

 nearly horizontal, are almost an inch long, and furnished 

 with shaggy hairs. The lower stem-leaves are nearly circu- 

 lar, having a deep small indentation, where the leaf-stalk is 

 inserted : they are five-lobed, having the lobes standing thick 

 together, obtusely dentated, of a pale green, fuj'nished on 



