shire. Mr. Purton, in Mid. FI. — About Battersea, Surrey. Mr. Cuiitis, in 
H. Lond. and Mr. VV . Pampun, jun. — Chesterton, Dilton, Hinton, Histon, 
Girton, and Madingley, Cambridgeshire. Rev. R. Rflhan, in FI. Cantab. — 
Common in Bedfordshire. Rev. C. Abbot, in FI. Bedf. — About Lough- 
borough, Buddon Wood, the Stocking Wood, and the river- side, near Leices- 
ter. — Between Chertsey Bridge and Sheperton, Middlesex. — Between London 
and Dulwich. — Near the Thames, Buckinghamshire. — Reigate and elsewhere 
in Surrey. — About Plumpton, near Lewes, Sussex. — Reading and Windsor, 
near the Thames. — About Stockport, Cheshire. — Common in Cumberland. — 
frequent in Derbyshire.— By the side of the Stour and the Frome, Dorsetshire. 
— Road-side near Walbottle Dean. Banks of the Wear, and of the Team, Dur- 
ham. — Between Otley and Ingleton, and about Coxwold, Leeds, and Ripon, 
Yorkshire. — On the banks of the Pont below Pontland, Northumberland. — In 
Nottinghamshire. — Castle Fields, Shropshire. — Ilam, Staffordshire. — Darsham, 
Suffolk. — Ripton, Huntingdonshire. Botanist’sGuide. — “ On the fertile green 
sand of the Vale of Pewsey, in Wiltshire ; on the sound calcareous loam over 
the great oolite, on the new red sandstone beds of Somersetshire ; and on the 
rich alluvial beds that accompany the course of the Bristol Avon, through 
Wiltshire, Somerset, and Gloucester, and on the old red sandstone of Glouces- 
tershire, this Geranium is both abundant and magnificent.” Causidicus, in 
Loud. Mag. of Nat Hist. v. iv. p. 462. — On the bank at Clomendy, in Llanve- 
ras ; and in the church-yard of Llanveras, Denbighshire. — Rhyd y Mwyn, 
in the parish of Mold, and in the field which is next above the bridge called 
PontLlong, and between the rivers Alen and Terrig, in the township of Lees- 
wood, Flintshire. — frequent about Pont Nedd Yachn, and Aberpergam, Gla- 
morganshire. — Plentiful about Lstrad Vetid, Brecknockshire. — Near Beaumaris, 
in thelsle of Anglesea, Bor. GutDE. — King’s Park, Edinburgh. Dr. Gheville, 
in FI. Edin. — “ Every stream in Ayrshire, and to the east of Glasgow, is ren- 
dered eminently beautiful by the rich azure of its transparent petals, and the 
singular verdure of its long peltate leaf. The Clyde, the Calder, the Tannock, 
and every streamlet near Bothwell, and Campsie Fells, possesses this flower. 
The bed of these rivers is basaltic.” Mr. Thomson, in Loud. Mag. of Nat. 
Hist. v. iii. p. 416. 
Perennial. — Flowers in June and July. 
Root somewhat woody, fibrous, reddish brown. Stem from one 
to three feet high, upright, branched, swollen at the joints, roundish, 
downy, and tinged, more or less, with red. Leaves deeply divided 
into five or seven lobes, each of which is variously cleft, and every 
segment acute, hairy, with strong ribs underneath. Lower leaves on 
long footstalks, which are nearly central ; upper almost sessile, divi- 
sions nearly strap-shaped. Floral-leaves four, spear-shaped, pointed. 
Flowers mostly two together, very large, blue; on short downy 
flower-stalks ( peduncles ) . Calyx-leaves (sepals) egg-shaped, point- 
ed, concave, bearded, clammy, ribbed, and membranous at the 
edges. Petals inversely-egg-shaped, nearly entire, with seven or 
nine whitish lines, and a little hairy at the base. Filaments ten, 
quite smooth, greatly dilated into a triangular figure at the base. 
Anthers purple. Capsule even, hairy all over. Seeds dotted. 
A very handsome species, frequently cultivated in gardens, where 
it varies with striped, and sometimes with entirely white flowers. 
There is also a variety with double flowers cultivated in gardens, 
and which is said to have been found near Athol-house, Scotland, 
by the late Lady Charlotte Murray. — I observed the white 
flowered variety in a meadow just behind the water-mill near the 
turnpike road going from Rugby t o Brownsover, June 28, 1831. 
W. B. 
