GERANIUM. 
85 
erecto-patent ; pet. obovate or obcuneate entire 3-raved twice 
the length of the closed awned villose or shaggy equably 10-angular 
cal. ; claw linear quite smooth ; carp, simply keeled varicosely 
wrinkled chiefly upwards. — Desf. ii. 104 ; Cay. Diss. 4. 215. t. 86. 
f. 1 ; EB. 1. 1486 ; Sm. E. FI. iii. 235, 6 ; WB. i. 21 (excl. yar. /3) ; 
Koch 155. 
(3. maritimum Bab. (ed. 4) 65 ; carp, quite smooth with 1-3 
very strong transverse wrinkles or plaits at top. — G. Roberti - 
anum DC. i. 644 (excl. var. (3). — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 2, 3 ; 
ccc. Thickets and shady banks in ravines everywhere ; R. de 
Santa Luzia, R. Frio, S. Vicente, &c. Spr., Sum. — A strong or 
rank foxy-smelling pi. sprinkled all over, especially the cal., 
with fine soft white hairs, and tinged more or less in all parts 
with bright red. St. often 1-2 ft. long and diffusely trailing 
hairy subvillose. L. membranous thin and flaccid hairy some- 
what shining but of a dark lurid or dull hoary gr. turning bright 
red in decay ; the middle lobe or segm. mostly a little produced. 
Cal. shaggy, thickly clothed with long white hairs. FI. rather 
large and handsome though much smaller than in G. anemone- 
folium , bright purplish-rose ; the pet. and claw together about 
half an in. long, their limb marked with 3 pale radiating lines. 
Carp, quite smooth, never “ downy ” as in the English pi. a. 
described by Sm. and Bab. and as sometimes in the Canarian pi. 
according to WB. i. 22, though I find them quite smooth in 
Bourgeau’s Can. specimens, no. 663, both in BII. and HH. 
Beak stout rather long quite smooth, the style pubescent. Seeds 
quite even. 
3. G. purpureum Vill. Passinhas. 
Smoothish or but slightly hairy not at all villose ; st. erect or 
slightly spreading often nearly or quite smooth ; 1. somewhat stiff' 
and succulent or fleshy subpedate ternate or quinate, the 3-5 
lobes or segm. subequal stalked bipinnatipartite, the subdivisions 
distinct and mostly narrowish j pedic. forked erecto-patent ; pet. 
obovate or oblong-oval nearly or quite entire 2-rayed not much 
longer than the closed awned hairy or pubescent but not villose 
subpentangular cal., claw linear quite smooth ; carp, smooth 
simply keeled strongly varicosely wrinkled especially upwards. 
— Ilerb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3 ; ccc. Spr., Sum. — Var. : 
a. lucens ; more hairy, 1. somewhat stiff or succulent and 
shining with smaller or narrowish subdivisions. — G. purpureum 
(Vill.) EBS. 2648. G. Robertianum (3. purpureum 1)C. i. 644. 
G. Robertianum (3. Sm. E. FI. iii. 236. G. Robertianum (3. 
parviflorum WB. i. 22. G. Raii Lindl. Syn. 57. G. Roberti- 
anum Brot. ii. 71, 72 P — A common weed in vineyards, by road- 
sides, in sunny stony waste ground everywhere, below 2000 ft. 
chiefly and down to the sea-beach. March-June. 
