ERODIUir. 
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2. Eroditjm Herit. 
Storksbill. 
* Cicutarice Webb. L. divided pinnatipartite or pinnate. Cot.- 
leaves crenate or lobate. 
1. Erodium moschatum (L.) Herit. Malvas. 
More or less pubescent ; st. prostrate or procumbent ; 1. pin- 
nate, lfts. distinct not quite sessile shortly stalked oval or ovate 
unequally cut and serrate scarcely lobate; stip. broad oval; 
ped. many-fl. ; pet. nearly equal a little longer than the cal., 
claw very short smooth not ciliate ; 5 fertile fil. dilated and 
1-toothed on each side at the base; carp, obliquely 1-ribbed 
at top below the furrow, or with the lower as well as upper 
margin of the groove below the scar raised and prominent; 
beak moderate slender minutely adpresso-pubescent. — Cav. Diss. 
4. 227. t. 94. f. 1 ; EB. t. 902 ; DC. i. 647 ; Sm. E. FI. iii. 230 ; 
WB. i. 23 ; Koch 156 ; Bab. 65. Geranium moschatum (L.) Desf. 
ii. 106; Brot. ii. 74. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, ccc; PS. reg. 
2, 3, c. Roadsides and waste ground everywhere ; Mad. about 
Funchal, Camacha, Ponta de Pargo, &c. ; PS. at Camacha and up 
Pico de Castello. Nov.-June. — A rather coarse weedy pi. with a 
strong musky smell and light gr. soft flaccid foliage ; st. in roads 
and paths quite prostrate, amongst other herbage more rank 
and procumbent or diffuse, 4-12 in. long, rather stout and 
succulent. Root strong fleshy whitish fusiform. L. 3-12 in. 
long pinnate with rather large and remote lfts. Ped. 4-10-fk 
nearly smooth or slightly viscid-pubescent. FI. small purplish- 
rose; sep. acute or acuminate scarcely awned; pet. about -i-rd 
longer than the sep. very entire narrow-oblong or elliptic im- 
maculate 3-nerved nearly or quite equal ; claw a little darker- 
col. very short. Fertile fil. with a short membranous narrow 
wing or border downwards dilated at the base abruptly into a 
tooth on each side. Barren fil. petal-like lanceolate acuminate. 
Carp, with the lower margin of the smooth furrow or groove 
below the large oval hollow pit-like scar on each side the base 
of the beak at top sharply raised and prominent like the upper 
margin, forming a single oblique rib on each side under the 
groove. Beak 1^ in. long, 5 times as long as the sep. 
2. E. cicuTAMUM (L.) Herit. 
Hairy or hirsute ; st. prostrate or procumbent ; 1. pinnate, lfts. 
sessile pinnatipartite or deeply pinnatifid and cut ; stip. narrow 
lanceolate; ped. mostly many-fl. ; pet. unequal longer than the 
cal., claw ciliate on each side; stain, smooth, fil. all simple 
dilated and rounded at the base not toothed smooth ; carp, not 
distinctly ribbed at top, the lower edge or margin of the smooth 
