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GERANIUM lividum. 
Wrinkled-leaved Cranes-bill. 
G. lividum, caule simplici tereti erecto, foliis radicalibus 
novemlobis : lobis patentibus obtusis inciso-dentatis ; 
caulinis 5-7-lobis acutis, calycibus simplicibus pilosis, 
petalis planis margine undulatis. 
Geranium lividum. UHerit. ger. t. 39- JVillden. sp. 
pi. 3. p. 701. Pers. syn. 2. p. 235. Hort. Kew. 
ed. 2. V.4!. p. 186. 
Geranium patulum. Vill. daiiph. 3. p. 371. G. sub- 
casruleum. Schleich. cat. 25. 
Perennial, herbaceous. Stems several from the same 
root, from eighteen inches to 3 feet in height ; simple, not 
forked, cylindrical, thickly clothed with unequal villous 
hairs. Root-leaves with long petioles, very large, 9-lobed, 
rugose or wrinkled, the lobes spreading, wedge-shaped, 
obtuse, unequally cut and toothed, entire at the base, 
the teeth bluntly rounded: petioles nearly cyHndrical, 
villosely hairy : Stem-leaves on shorter petioles, the upper 
ones nearly sessile, lower ones 7-lobed, upper ones 5-lobed, 
villosely hairy on both sides, lobes deeply divided, much 
spreading, more acute, and the teeth rather sharper: 
petioles nearly cylindrical, swollen at the base. Peduncles 
opposite to the leaves, 2 -flowered, rather slender, nearly 
cyHndrical, thickened at the base, thickly clothed with 
short hairs, and longer ones intermixed. Involucre of 
4 small, oblong, membranaceous, blunt, fringed bractes. 
Pedicles cylindrical, thickened just below the flower. 
Calyx of 5 sepals, which are ovately-lanceolate, concave, 
