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GERANIACEjE. 
a membranous indehiscent pericarp and indurated style which 
finally twists up, separating from the axis (gynobase), and car- 
ries with it the pericarp. Seeds solitary, without albumen. 
Cotyledons convolute, plaited. 
1. Geranium. Sep. 5. Pet. 5. Stam. 10, monadelphous, 
alternately larger and with glands at their base. Fruit 
beaked, separating into 5 1 -seeded capsules, each with a 
long ultimately recurved awn glabrous internally. 
2. Erodium. Sep. 5. Pet. 5. Stam. monadelphous, 5 sterile 
with glands at their base, 5 fertile. Fruit beaked, sepa- 
rating into 5 1-seeded capsules, each with a long ultimately 
spirally twisted awn bearded internally. 
1. Geranium Linn. Cranesbill. 
* Root consisting of long fibres springing from a prcemorse rhi- 
zoma, perennial. 
1. G.phceum (L.) ; peduncles 2-flowered, pet. roundish wedge- 
shaped rather longer than the muci onate sepals, " caps, hairy 
below transversely wrinkled above, seeds punctate-striate." — E. B. 
322. — St. erect, 2 feet high. L. 5-lobed : lobes acute, cut, ser- 
rated. Fl. purplish black. — In woods and thickets, rare. " With 
white fl. on the sands of Barrie near Dundee." Hooker. 
P. V. VI. E. S. 
2. G. nodosum (L.) ; peduncles 2-flowered, pet. obcordate twice 
as long as the aimed sepals, caps, even downy, 1. 3 — 5-lobed : 
lobes ovate acuminate serrate. — E. B. 1091. — St. 18 in. high, 
slender, erect. Fl. pale purple. I have seen no specimens. — 
In Cumberland and Hertfordshire. Very rare. P. V. — VIII. — E. 
3. G. sylvaticum (L.) ; peduncles 2-flowered, pet. obovate 
slightly notched twice as long as the awned sepals, caps, even 
hairy : hairs spreading glandular, seeds dotted, 1. palmate 7-lobed : 
lobes cut and serrated, st. erect glandular-hairy above, filaments 
of the stam. subulate, fruitstulks erect. — E. B. 121. — St. erect, 
2 — 3 feet high. Fl. blue, claws of the petals bearded, filaments 
hairy half way up. A specimen from Dr. Greville (found at 
Dollar) with pale rose-coloured flowers, smaller and nearly en- 
tire petals and a more decidedly hairy stem, is probably the var. 
/3. fastigiatum (Fries) Nov. 211. — Woods and thickets, rare. 
P. VI. VII. 
4. G. pratense (L.) ; peduncles 2-flowered, pet. obovate entire 
or slightly notched twice as long as the awned sepals, caps, even 
hairy : hairs spreading glandular, seeds " minutely reticulated," 
1. palmate 7-lobed : lobes cut and serrated, st. diffuse glandular 
hairy above : hairs deflexed, filaments of the stam. filiform with 
a triangular-ovate base, fruitstulks deflexed. — E. B. 404. — St. 
1 — 2 feet high. Fl. large, purple, claw of the pet. ciliated not 
