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16. GEEANIACEJE. 
concentric furrows below the 2 hollow scars at the base of the 
beak being subobsolete instead of sharp and prominent ; beak 
moderate slender minutely adpresso-pubescent. — DC. i. 646 ; 
EB. t. 1768 ; Sm. E. FI. iii. 229 ; Presl 209 ; WB. i. 22 ; Koch 
155 ; Bab. 65. Geranium cicutarium (L.) Brot. ii. 75, 6. 
bipinnatum DC. i. 647 ; y. WB. ! 1. c. Ger. bipinnatum Cay. 
Diss. 5. t. 126. f. 3. G. cicutarium A. bipinnatum Desf. ii. 106 ; 
strigosely hirsute ; 1. bipinnatipartite, lfts. deeply and finely 
divided, with short narrow segm. ; ped. 2-4-tl. ; fl. slightly 
ringent, pet. -§, twice the length of cal. 
Subv. 1, rosea ; fl. pink, 2 upper pet. with a pale spot at the 
base. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 3 ; •§. Open grassy mountain 
pastures scarcely below 2500 ft. ; between the bridge in Bib. 
d’Escalas and the P090 de Neve, and to the eastward between 
B. d’Escalas and Pico da Silva ; ascent of the Pico das Abo- 
baras beyond Camacha plentifully; Boca das Torrinhas at the 
top of the Lombo Grande in the Curral das Freiras, & c. March- 
July. — Boot strong fleshy fusiform whitish. PL for some time 
stemless though flowering ; then throwing out several prostrate 
rarely branched st. 2-6 or even 12 in. long, tinged like the 
petioles and ped. with red and clothed with coarse shaggy 
white hairs. Whole pi. slightly fetid like G. Robertianum. Fo- 
liage dark gr. often reddish. L. opposite in pairs hispid finely 
divided, bipinnatifid or bipinnate with narrow deeply cut divi- 
sions ; lower primary pinme or lfts. remote ; rachis or midrib 
distinct or naked as in E. moscliatum L. Pedic. in fr. declining 
or deflexed. Fl. elegant rather large conspicuous bright pink 
or rose. Sep. shortly awned or mucronate. Pet. obovate- 
oblong entire twice the length of the sep. the 2 upper smaller ; 
each of the 3 lower with 3 dark lines or nerves at the base ; 
claw in all copiously ciliate. Sterile fil. half the length of 
fertile, lanceolate membranous large, petal- or chaff-like. Glands 
at base of 5 fertile stam. notched, dark red. Anthers rose 
or purple darker than the pet. Stigmas purple rather long. 
Carp, narrow-oblong, attenuated downwards, clothed all over 
with short erecto-patent hairs below the obsolete, lower edge 
or margin of the smooth furrows or grooves under the 2 deep 
pit-like scars at top. Beak 1} inch long 4 or 5 times the length 
of sep. and with the style clothed with short white strigose 
close-pressed pubescence ; its valves lined with yellow or tawny 
silky hairs. — Pet. very caducous and fugacious, always falling 
before noon. Cotyledon-1, undivided 3-5-lobcd. 
Subv. 2, albijlora] fl. pure white. Herb. ann. PS. reg. 3; r. 
Boadside, Camacha, under Pico de Castello ; north slope of 
Pico de Cabrito near the Ninho de Guincho. April, May. — 
Differs from the Madeiran pi. in no respect except the pure 
white 11. 
