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alternately larger and with glands at their base. Fruit 
beaked, separating into 6 1 -seeded earpels, each wdth a long 
ultimately recurved awn glabrous internally. 
2. Erodium. Sep. 5. Pet. 5. Stam. monadelphous, 5 sterile 
5 fertile w'ith glands at their base. Fruit beaked, separating 
into 5 1 -seeded earpels, each wdth a long ultimately spirally 
twisted awn bearded internally. 
1. Geranium ZiRW. Cranesbill. 
* Root consisting of long fibres springing from a preemorse 
rhizoma, perennial. 
1. G. phaum (L.) ; peduncles 2-flowered, pet. roundish wedge- 
shaped rather longer than the mucronate sepals, “carp, hairy 
below transversely wrinkled above, seeds punctate-striate.’’'’ — E. B. 
322. R.4891. — St. erect, 2 feet high. L. 5-lobeJ: lobes acute, 
cut, serrated. FI. purplish-black. — In w’oods 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 awned sepals, carp, 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 speci- 
mens. — 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, carp, even 
hair)- : hairs spreaebng glandular, seeds dotted, 1. palmate 7-lobed ; 
lobes cut and serrated, st. erect glandular-hairy above, filaments 
of the stam. subulate, fruitstalks erect. — E.B. 121. — St. erect, 
2—3 feet high. Fl. purplish-blue, claws of the petals bearded, 
filaments hairy half w'ay up. A specimen from Dr. Greville 
(found at Dollar) with pale rose-coloured flow'ers, smaller and 
nearly entire 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-fiowered, pet. obovate entire 
or slightly notched twice as long as the awmed sepals, carp, even 
hairy : hairs spreading glandular, seeds “ minutely reticulated,” 
1. palmate 7-lobed: lobes cut and serrated, st. difiuse glandular 
hairy above : hairs deflexed, filaments of the stam. filiform with 
a triangular-ovate base, fruitstalks defiexed. — E.B. 404. R. 4883. 
— St. I — -2 feet high. Fl. large, purple, claw of the pet. ciliated 
not bearded. Filaments slightly hairy at their base. — Moist pas- 
tures. P. VI.— VIII. 
