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derably large, but not nearly fo big as thofe 
of the former: their colour is a fine bright red. 
The beaks are long and large. 
It is found among buflies in our northern 
counties i and flowers in Auguft. 
Ray calls it Gerafiium batrachoides montanum. 
C. Bauhine, Geranium batrachoides folio aconiu. 
Others, Geranium batrachoides minus. 
14. Shining dove's-foot Craneibil!. 
Geranium luctdum faxatile columbimim. 
The root is long, (lender, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves in fliape fomcwhat refemble 
thofe of the common dove*s-foot cransjhill, but they 
are of a deep green colour, and fhining furface : 
they are more grofsly indented, and they ftand 
on long, thick, red footfl:a!ks. 
The ftalks rife among thefc leaves, and they 
are very irregularly branched, and rudely jointed : 
they alfo are red and fliining ; their joints are 
large and knotty ; and their branches fpread with 
great irregularity : they are a foot and half long, 
but they do not ftand very ered. 
The leaves on the ftalks are lefs indented than 
thofe at the root, and are of the fame glofly fur- 
face and dark colour. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a faint red; 
The beaks alfo are fmall. 
It is frequent in our northern counties and 
elfewhere. There is a great deal of it among the 
b'jflies on the right hand of the road to Rich- 
mond. 
It flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Geranium lucidujn faxatile. 
Others, Gera?iium faxatile. 
15. Knotty Cranefbill with trifid leaves. 
Geranium nodofum foliis trifidis. 
The root is long, irregular, and creeping. 
The firft leaves are few ; and are fupported on 
long, flender, redifh footftalks : they are fmall, 
and of a deep green colour and fliining furface: 
they are each divided into three principal parts, 
and two fmaller at the bafe ; fo that thcfe are 
properly quinquifid, though thofe on the ftalks 
are, as the name exprefll'S, only trifid : thofe fig- 
ments of the leaves arc long, narrow, and fliarp- 
puinted ; and they are fiiarply ferrated at the 
edges. 
The ftalk is round, upriglit, and of a blood 
red colour ufually ; it is divided into many 
branches in the upper part, and has large, thick, 
and fwelling knots at the joints. 
The flowers ftand on fhort footftalks at the 
tops of the branches, commonly two on each 
footftalk : they are moderately large, and of a 
bright red. 
The beaks are long and fiender. 
It is found in fome of our northern counties; 
.and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Geranium nodofum. Others, 
Geranium ncdofum plateau. 
The whole plant frequently becomes in autumn 
blood red. 
16. Black-flowered Cranefbill. 
■ Geranium flore fuUo. 
The root is long, flender, and furniflied with 
many fibres. 
The leaves that rife from it are large, broad 
and angulated: they are placed on long foot- 
flialks, and they are divided by deep fegments 
into five or fix principal parts, which are pointed 
at the ends, and notched at their edges : they are 
of a dufky green colour; and often are fpotted. 
The ftalk is round, firm, very upright, and 
two feet high : it is of a pale brown colour, and 
very little branched. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and at dif- 
tances: thofe toward the bottom refemble the 
firft leaves from the root ; but fuch as grow near 
the top are divided only into three parts, which 
are long, narrow, and notched. 
The flowers are large and black : they ftand 
on flender footftalks on the tops of the branches ; 
and thefe ufually fplir, and fuftain each two 
flowers. 
The beaks are moderately long; 
It has been found wild in fome few parts of 
England, and of late in Ireland. I: flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Geranium montanum fufcum» 
Others, Geranium puUo fiore. 
17. Sea Cranefliill with undivided leaves. 
Geranium maritinium foliis integris. 
The root is long, flender, divided, and fur- 
niflied with many fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, thick, jointed, and 
of a pale green : they are five or fix inches long, 
and fpread every way upon the ground, none of 
them rifing upright, unlcfs by accident: they ara 
thick fet with leaves, and divided into numerous 
branches. 
The leaves are undivided : they are oblong and 
broad, obtufe at the ends, and fiightly crenated 
round the edges : they are of a pale green, and 
they have a great deal of rcfemb'ance to the 
leaves of betony, only they are fmaller. 
The flowers ftand on fhort footftalks rifing 
from the bofoms of the leaves, principally to- 
ward the ends of the bnmches : they are fmall 
and whicifli, with a blufli of red. 
The beaks are fliort and fmall. 
It is frequent on barren, fandy grounds about 
the fea-coaft ; and flowers in June. 
Ray calls it Geranium pufillum fupinum mari- 
timum althaa, vel potius Betonica folio. Merret 
Geranium hetonicct folio. 
iS. Pinnated-leaved Cranefbill without fcent. 
Geranium foliis pinnatis inodorum. 
The root is long, thick, and furniflied with 
many fibres. 
The leaves that firft rife from it are large and 
pinnated ; and they are beautifully difpofed, mak- 
ing a round tuft upon the ground : they are long, 
narrow, and of a pale, pleafant green : each is 
compofed of fix or more pairs of pinn^, or 
finaller leaves, fet on a middle rib, with an odd 
one at the end. 
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