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16. GEE ANIACE JE . 
1. Geranium L. 
Cranesbill. 
* Batrachioides Koch. Hoot strong fusiform simple or 
branched, forming at the crown a low scaly knob or caudex, 
1. G. anemonefolium Herit. Passas. 
Root more or less caudescent at the crown ; st. and leafstalks 
annual herbaceous more or less pubescent; 1. smooth shining 
peltate palmately 5-partite, the 5 lobes or segments bipinnati- 
partite; panicle corymbose broad ample repeatedly forked 
many-flowered compound, ped. 2-flowered forked and with the 
pedic. and sep. glandulose-hairy ; pet. obovate very entire 3-4 
times the length of the awned sep., their claw short smooth ; 
carp, smooth varicosely veined ; seeds quite even. — BM. t. 206 ; 
DC. i. 640 ; Spr. iii. 71 ; WB. ! i. 20. G. pahnatum, Cav. Diss. 4. 
216. t. 84. f. 2. G. Icevigatum Buch ! 196. no. 335. — Herb, 
per. Mad. reg. 2, 3 ; ccc. Wooded ravines on shady or moist 
rocks and banks everywhere, R. de Santa Luzia, R. Frio, R. de 
S. Jorge, R. de Janella, &c. &c. March-Sept. — Fl.-st. ann. 
fork-branched upwards, 1-3 ft, high one or more from the more 
or less elevated short stem-like root-stock which is rugged 
and scaly with the remains of former st. and 1. L. a peculiar 
bright shining gr., the root-1, with stalks often a foot long or 
more and large leafy stipules clothing the root-stock at their 
base ; the limb 8-iO in. diam. ; somewhat succulent, very 
smooth. Panicle level-topped, large and spreading, its di-* 
visions thickly clothed with purple glandular spreading hairs. 
FI. crowded large and handsome 1-11 in. diam. bright rose- 
purple the throat darker. Claw of pet. divergently 2-ribbed 
inside. Fil. equal very fine and long, dark purple persistent. 
Fr. small in proportion its beak short smooth, style pubescent. 
Whole pi. scentless. Varies much in smoothness. — One of the 
chief ornaments in woods and ravines of the rocks and banks, 
which it profusely clothes in many places, and enlivens with its 
bright gr. lucid foliage and fine rose-purple fl. varying in in- 
tensity of colour and often pale, but never white. I'lie pi. con- 
tinue flowering in long succession through the summer; and 
here and there indeed at almost all seasons. 
* * Columbinum Koch. Root ann. slender simple or branched ; 
ped. 2-flowered. 
t Carp, rugose or wrinkled but mostly smooth ; seeds even. 
2. G. RoBEltTlANUM L. Herb Robert. Passinhas. 
Villose-hairi/ ; st. ascending spreading and diffuse ; 1. mem- 
branous thin and flaccid subpedato ternate or quinate, the 3-5 
lobes or segm. unequal stalked bipinnatipartite ; pedic. forked 
