Bridge.— Cornwall; Near Penzance; and at Portluney and Carhays.— Cum- 
berland; Hedge-bank at Mr. Yates’s, Skirwilh, Kirkland. — Derbyshire ; 
Alfreton. — Devonshire; Along the Southern coast. Dawlish; Teignmouth; 
and Torquay. Bank under a hedge near Upcott; also near Plymouth; and 
Countless Wear Bridge, near Exeter. — Essex; At Dedham. Between Bristol 
and St. Vincent’s Rocks. By the river-side at Bristol ; and by the foot-path 
under St. Vincent’s Rocks. — Kent ; South Kent, probably not native. On 
Bromley Common. — Lancashire ; Dry places in the county. — Norfolk; In 
the hedge of a field by a foot-path into Cromer. — Notts ; Here and there on 
banks. — Shropshire ; High road between Shelton and Montford Bridge. — 
Somersetshire ; Way-side at Chedder; near Yeovil; Farringdon; and Kings- 
down.— Staffordshire ; Grouuds about Dudley Castle. — Suffolk; Bradwell 
Common, doubtful if wild. — Surrey ; Near Battersea. On Streatham Common ; 
at Bagshot; in the lanes and fields near Windlesham Church; and about 
Barnes. — Sussex; On the rocks, Hastings; and West end of Pulborough. — 
Warwickshire ; At Cookhill, on the Ridgeway. — Westmoreland ; Everywhere 
in dry pastures of this county. — Worcestershire ; Near Stourbridge. — Yorksh. 
In Craven ; Hornsea; Thorp Arch ; and near Scarborough. — WALES. Angle- 
sea; Above the beach between Friars and Friars’ Beach ; and on the side of the 
post-road between the second and third milestone from Holyhead. — Pembroke- 
shire ; By the road-side about a mile from Tenby towaids Pembroke. — SCOT- 
LAND. Haddingtonshire; Near Prestonpans. — IRELAND. Simmond’s 
Court, near Donnybrook ; rocks at Carlingford Castle ; near Monkstown Church ; 
and about Cork. — For authorities, see B. G. ; and N. B. G. 
Annual. — Flowers from May to September. 
Root tapering, fibrous, whitish. Stem prostrate, sometimes more 
than 2 feet long, round, and clothed, more or less, with short, white 
hairs. Leaves pinnate, on longish petioles ; leaflets nearly sessile, 
opposite and alternate, elliptical, or oblong egg-shaped, unequally 
serrated and cut, slightly hairy, the terminal one 3-lobed. Stipulas 
rather large, broadly egg-shaped, very thin and membranous. 
Peduncles 2 or 3 inches long, bearing an umbel of from 4 to 10 
flowers, on short pedicels, which are clothed with glandular hairs, 
and accompanied at their base with egg-shaped, membranous 
bracteas. Calyx permanent, clothed with short, white, glandular 
hairs. Petals rose-coloured, not spotted, all nearly equal. Abor- 
tive filaments very broad ; anther bearing ones with a tooth on 
each side near the base (fig. 3) . Glands 5, green, on the outside 
of the anther bearing filaments. Capsules single-seeded, clothed 
with strong, yellow hairs. 
The whole plant has a powerful musky smell, in which, and in the larger, paler, 
and much less deeply-cut leaflets, it differs from Erodium cicutarium, a species 
to which it is nearly akin. 
For a very interesting account of the beautiful contrivance which nature has pro- 
vided for the dispersion and protection of the seeds of these plants, and some others 
of the same order, see Withering’s Botanical Arrangement of British Plants, 
and Johnston’s Flora of Berwick-upon-Tweed, v. i. p. 150. 
The Natural Order Gerania'ceje consists of herbs or shrubs, with- 
out tendrils. Their leaves are opposite at the joints, or alternate, 
and then opposite the peduncle. They have a calyx of 5 permanent 
sepals, which are imbricated in the bud. Their corolla consists of 
5 petals. Their stamens are generally monadelphous, and twice 
as many as there are petals, some of them occasionally abortive. 
The ovary is 5-lobed, and terminated by a long thick beak ( torus 
or gynobase), and 5 stigmas. The capsules ( carpels ) are 5, each 
1-celled, and 1-seeded, eventually separating from the base of the 
beak, together with a long elastic awn (the style). The seed is 
solitary, without albumen; with a curved embryo ; and foliaceous, 
convolute, and plaited cotyledons. 
