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GERA'NIUM* * 
Linnean Class and Order. Monade'lphia, Deca'ndria. 
Natural Order. Gerania'cea?. Juss. — Lind. Syn. p. 56 ; 
Introd. to Nat. Syst. of Bot. p. 139. — Gerania'ce/E. Tribe, Gera- 
nieOe. Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 56. 
Gen. Char. Calyx inferior, of five egg-shaped, pointed, con- 
cave, permanent leaves (sepals). Corolla of five inversely-heart- 
shaped, spreading petals, all equal and regular, and much larger than 
the calyx. Nectaries five glands, which are alternate with the 
petals. Filaments ten, fertile, united at the base (monadelphous), 
spreading at the summit, five alternate ones longer than the rest, all 
of them shorter than the corolla. Anthers oblong, versatile (turn- 
ing about like a vane). Gcrmen superior, roundish, with five fur- 
rows. Style awl-shaped, upright, longer than the stamens, per- 
manent. Stigmas five, oblong, reflexed. Capsules five, nearly 
globular, aggregate, membranous, separating at their inner margin, 
each tipped with a long strap-shaped, flat, upright, pointed, stiff 
awn, which is almost smooth and naked, not spiral, but finally re- 
curved, or rolled back, and adhering by its point to the top of the 
style. Seeds, one in each capsule, roundish-kidney-shaped, — 
Distinguished from other genera of the same class by the ten fertile 
stamens, the beaked fruit of five aggregate capsules, and the re- 
curved, not spiral, naked awn. 
Herbaceous Plants with mostly opposite, stalked leaves, which are 
lobed in a palmate manner, and cut. Stipulas membranous ; 
Flowers, one or two on a stalk, either axillary, or opposite to the 
upper alternate leaves. 
Thirteen species British. 
GERA'NIUM PRATE'NSE. Blue Meadow Crane’s-bill. 
Spec. Char. Stalks 2-flowered. Leaves in 5 or 7 deep seg- 
ments, sharply wing-cleft and serrated. Capsules hairy, not 
wrinkled. Stamens smooth, much dilated at the base. 
Eng. Bot. t. 404. — Curt. FI. Lond. t. 250. — Sm. FI. Brit. v. ii. p. 732. — Eng. 
FI. v.iii. p.235. — With. (7th edit.) v. iii. p. 804.— Lind. Syn. p. 56. — Hook. 
Br. FI. p.312. — Sib. FI. Oxon. p. 212. — Abbot’s FI. Bedf. p. 148. — Itelh. FI. 
Cant. p. 277. — Purt. Midi. FI. v. i. p. 319. — Hook. FI. Scot p. 206. — Grev v Fl. 
Edin. p. 149. — Walk. FI. of Oxf. p. 198 .— Geranium batrachoides, Hay’s Syn. 
p. 360. — Johnson's Gerarde, 942. 
Localities.— In meadows, pastures, and thickets.— In many parts of Eng- 
land. — Southleigh, St. Clement’s, and Marston, Oxford. Dr. Sibthorp. — 
Meadow near Ileadington Hill. Rev. Ru. Walker, in FI. of Oxf. — Near the 
path to South Ilinksey, Berks. — Cumnor and Besselsleigh, Berks: Appleton, 
Berks, abundant, particularly in the church-yard, and in the meadows near the 
river Thames. Miss Hoskins.— On the side of a ditch between the Diamond- 
House and the Woodstock Road, about a mile from Oxford. — Very abundant 
in meadows adjoining the Avon, and by road-sides near Rugby, Brownsover, 
and Newbold, in Warwickshire. July, 1831. W. B. — Common in Warwick- 
Fig. 1. Stamens, Styles, and Nectariferous Glands. — Fig. 2. Germen, Style, 
and Stigmas. — Fig. 3. Calyx ; and ripe Capsules, separated from the base of 
the Style, and curled backwards. 
* From geranos, Gr. a Crane ; the fruit resembling the beak of that bird. 
