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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
Some have fuppofed it only a variety of the 
other dove*s-foot ''jjith deep cut leaves ; but, on 
comparing them, they are abfolutely diftinct. 
Ray calls it Germimn colmnbimim jnaximuvt 
dijfeBis foUis. 
9. Bloody Cranefbill, 
Geranium h^motides. 
The root is long, thick, and divided into fe- 
veral parts. 
The leaves that rife from it are numerous, 
fmall, and deeply divided : they have moderately 
long footftalks, and they are of a dufky gre^n. 
Their fegments are fingle and iliarp-pointed. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, weak, and 
redifli : they are a foot long, but not very cre6t; 
and are greatiy branched. 
The leaves on thefe are like thofe from the 
root ; and they have, in the fame manner, mo- 
derately long footftalks. 
The flowers do not grow from the tops of the 
ftalks, but rife from the bofoms of the leaves : 
they have very long, (lender footftalks, and only 
one flower is fupported on each : this is very 
large, and of a deep blood red. 
The beak is fmal), and is furroundcd at its 
bafe by a large cup. 
It is found among bufhes in the fouthern 
counties of England, but is not common. 
It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls iiGeranimn fanguinarium. O- 
thcrs. Geranium fcinguiiieKmy and H/cmatodes. 
10. Pale hairy-leaved bloody Cranefbill. 
Geranium hesmatcdes foliis pailideorihus hirfutis. 
The root is long, thick, and furniflied with 
numerous fibres. 
The leaves that rife firft from this are very 
numerous, and fupported on long, flender foot- 
ftalks: their figure approaches tO" round, but 
they are deeply divided into narrow fegments ; 
and they are hairy, and of a pale green. 
The fl:aik is flender, hairy, whitifli, and but 
indifferently able to fupport itfelf. 
The leave, on it are, like thofe from the root, 
pale coloured, hairy, and very deeply divided ; 
and they have fhort focrtftalks. 
The flowers are large, and of a pale red ■, and 
they fl;and on feparate long and flender footfl:a!ks 
rifing from the bofoms of the leaves. 
The beaks are long and large. 
It is found in Cambridgefliire, and fome other 
places, but is not common. 
It flowers in July. 
Raycalls it Germanium h^ematodes foliis majori- 
hus -pallidioribus & aliius incijis. 
II. Small bloody Cranefbill. 
Geranium h^fnatodes pumilum. 
The root is long, flender, and furniflied with 
numerous fibres. 
The leaves that firft rife from it are nume- 
rous, fmall, of a roundifli figure, but deeply di- 
vided into narrow fegments, and placed on long ■ 
footftalks : they are of a dufl^y green colour, and 
not in the leaft hairy. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, round, and 
branched : they are fix or eight inches long, but 
not perfeflly erc£t. 
Their leaves are fmall, and very deeply di- 
vided i and they are of the fame deep green 
colour with thofe from the root, and alfo fmooth. 
The flowers are very large, and very beautiful: 
they ftand fingly on long footftalks rifing from 
the bofoms of the leaves ; and they are of a pale 
whitilh colour, variegated with veins of red. 
The beaks are fmall. 
It is found in Lancafliire and the adjoining 
counties ; and flowers in Auguft. 
Ray calls it Geranmn k^ratodes Lancaftrenfe flore 
eleganier variegato. 
It has been fufj eifled as only a variety of 
one of the firft kind ; and the feeds have been 
fown in gardens to try. In this cafe it becomes 
larger, but the leaves continue fmaller, than thofe 
of the common kind ; and the flower always con- 
tinues variegated. 
12. Crowfoot Cranefljill. 
Geranium Balrachaides. 
This is a very large and fpecious plant. 
The root is long, thick, and furniflied with 
abundance of fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a large tuft: they are 
fupported on long, flender footftalks, and are 
large and fpreading : they are divided very 
deeply into numerous fegments, which are again 
notched at their edges ; and they are of a pale 
green, and hairy. 
The ftalk is thick, firm, upright, two feet . 
high, and very much branched. 
The leaves on it are numerous and larf^e, and 
are divided more deeply than thofe immediately 
from the root. 
The flowers are numerous, very ]arge, and of 
a fine blue : they ftand at the tops of the branches 
on fliort footftalks. 
The beaks are long, and not very thick. 
It is frequent in paftures in many parts of 
England. About Twickenham there is a great 
deal of it. 
It flowers in July. 
J. Bauhine calls it Geranium hatrachoides, O- 
thers, Gratia Dei. 
13. Red-flowered crowfoot Cranefliill. 
Geranium batrachoides fiore 'minore rubente. 
The root is long, thick, and furniflied with 
a multitude of long and crooked fibres. 
From this rife firft four or five leaves, rarely 
more : they are large, broad, and of a deep 
green colour, and fliining furface : they are fup- 
ported on long footftalks, and are cut into feve- 
ral divifions at the edges, but not fo deeply as 
thofe of the former fpecies. 
The ftalk is round, upright, but flender, 
fomewhat branched, and a foot and half high. 
The leaves that ftand on it refemble thofe 
from the root, but they are fmaller, and more 
deeply divided. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks 
and branches on fliort footftalks, and are confi- 
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