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nhnum^ P. 707. The L.eaft Doves-foot Cranes-bilL 
This is a very fmall plant, about two or three inches 
high : The leaves are fmall, the bowers minute, the • 
petals bifid, and of a faint blue colour. 
* 10. Geranium columbinum^ R. 359, G. 793. 
columbinum vulgare^ P. 706. folio malvde rotundo^ 
C. 318. Doves-foot, or Doves-foot Cranes-bilL 
By hedges, and in ftony places. The leaves gene- 
rally lye fpread on the ground, and grow on long red- 
ifli pedicles ; they are fmall, round, and cut into 
about feven hairy fegments : The ftalks are flender, 
about a fpan high, jointed, and befet with fmaller 
and more divided leaves : The flowers grow by pairs 
on their proper pedicles ; they are of a Ihining pur- 
ple colour, and their petals entire. 
Doves-foot is accounted good for inward bruifes, haemorrhages, 
and all fluxes in general. It is very much commended for the 
cure of ruptures in children, given in powder. It hkewife helps 
the ftone, and provokes urine. 
11. Geranium columbinum majus diffeblis foliis^ 
359, G. E. 938. malacoides laciniatum feu colum- 
binum alterum^ P. 706. malacoides feu columbinum 
tenuius laciniatum^ P. 707. Doves-foot Cranes-bill, , 
with jagged leaves. Common in hedges. The leaves 
are divided into feveral fegments to the very pedicle, 
after the manner of Crow- foot Cranes-bill : The 
flowers are of a fine purple colour, and the petals 
bifid, but not ftriped. 
12. Geranium columbinum diffeblis foliiSy pediculis 
florum longiffimiSy R. 359. Jagged Doves-foot 
Cranes-bill, with flowers on long foot-ftalks. At 
Swanlyy not far from Barfcrd in Kent : In Gilling 
grove, near Kendaly IVeftmoreland J". The petals 1 
of the flowers are but a little cut in the middle : The 
leaves are deeply divided, and fomewhat hairy : The i 
ftalks are fmooth •, the pedicles on which the flowers 
ftand are remarkably long, being at leaft four inches. 
13. Geranium columbinum maximum^ foliis dijfebfis^ 
R. 360, 
