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16. GERANTACEJ3. 
3- nemoralis ; smoother, 1. membranous with broader more 
leafy subdivisions. — Common on rocky shady banks in woods 
and ravines chiefly above 2000 ft., growing often intermixed with 
G. Robertianum (3 ; Rib. de Santa Luzia near the Waterfall ; 
bank above the Fountain in Rib. Frio along with G. Robertianum 
(3. and G. lucidum L. May- July. 
A smaller less straggling more upright bushy shorter-branched 
pi. less powerfully fetid than G. Robertianum (3, but with the 
same kind of rank smell, and altogether less hairy, even in a. 
In drying it adheres much less to the paper, and is much less 
flaccid and membranous. In decay especially it is equally apt 
to acquire a bright red tinge. St. succulent shining only slightly 
hairy, often nearly or quite smooth. L. sprinkled with a few short 
hairs, much smaller and stiffer than in G. Robertianum (3 , with 
the middle lobe or segm. less produced, and usually with alto- 
gether more distinct and somewhat finer narrower divisions, 
smoother and normally more shining and succulent or firm ; 
for 3- is a state merely due to altitude or situation. FI. small 
and inconspicuous, the size of those of G. lucidum L., their pet. 
and claw together 3-4 lines long, not much exceeding the sep., 
pink or rose with 2 darker rays. Cal. pubescent rather than 
hairy, sometimes nearly or quite smooth, never shaggy or villose, 
with 10 unequal ribs or angles, but only pentagonal, 5 being 
alternately less prominent. Carp, smooth wrinkled and seeds 
quite even, exactly as in G. Robertianum (3. Beak stout but 
rather shorter than in the pi. just named, quite smooth ; style 
pubescent. — I have observed this pi. in Madeira many years 
without finding any variation in the above characters or inter- 
mediate states between it and G. Robertianum (3 , although the 
two are foimd continually growing intermixed. Few pi. in fact 
are either more constant in their differences or more easily dis- 
criminated. And in confirmation of this view it may be noted, 
that whilst in higher shady spots G. Robertianum f3. retains all 
its hairiness, G. purpureum v ill. growing by its side becomes 
on the contrary smoother. 
4. G. lucidum L. 
Nearly or quite smooth succulent shining ; st. diffuse subcespi- 
tose ascending; 1. roundish -reniform 6-7-fid, lobes obtusely 
inciso-crenate ; pedic. forked erecto-patent ; pet. obovate or spa- 
thulate entire 2-rayed not much longer than the large pyramidal 
strongly and sharply winyed 5-angtdar cal. which is transversely 
clathrate or wrinkled across between the prominent winged 
angles; claw long linear pubescent inside; carp, shortly gland- 
ular-pubescent upivards or at top, 3-6 -keeled and reticulately 
wrinkled across. — Desf. ii. 104, 6; Cav. Biss. 4. 214. t. 80. f. 2; 
Brot. ii. 72 ; EB. t. 76 ; BC. i. 044 ; Sin. E. FI. iii. 236, 7 ; Presl 
