EEODIUM. 
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On its first appearance in March this pi. is stemless with a 
central 2-flowered ped., flat-spreading leaves, and fl. larger than 
afterwards : excepting the more finely divided lfts. resembling 
(though not the same as) var. a. prcecox DC. {Ger. prcecox Cav. 
Diss. 5. 272. t. 126. f. 2). It soon sends out several branches, 
which are at first quite prostrate. Later in the season luxuriant 
robust pi. with diffuse ascending branches often a ft. long, almost 
assume the form of Ger. Chcerophyllum Cav. Diss. 4. 226. t. 95. 
f. 1 (Er odium cicutarium y. DC.), but with which they are cer- 
tainly not identical. These 2 states or stages of the sp. (the 
stemless and luxuriant) are however doubtless the pi. intended 
by Erodium cicutarium a. and /3. WB. 1. c., excluding the refer- 
ences to Cavanilles. 
3. E. botrys (Cavan.) Bertol. Agulheta. 
Hispid or strigose; st. ascending diffuse or spreading, and 
with the petioles thickly clothed with reflexed bristles ; 1. ob- 
long obtuse subcordate, the lower undivided sinuate or sinuate- 
lobate crenate with shallow very obtuse lobes and teeth, the 
upper more deeply and finely divided or bipinnatifid, sharply 
cut and toothed with narrow linear segments ; stip. ovate ; 
ped. 2-4-fld. ; pedic. in fr. strongly reflexed ; pet. unequal f, 
a little longer than the always close-pressed sep., claw slightly 
pubescent not ciliate ; stam. smooth, fil. all simple dilated down- 
wards not toothed at the base smooth ; carp, obliquely 3-4-ribbed 
on each side at top below the furrow ; beak very large about 
8 times the length of sep. finely pubescent. — DC. i. 647 ; Spr. 
iii. 34 ; WB. ! i. 23. Geranium Botrys Cav. Diss. 4. 218. t. 90. 
f. 2 j Brot. ii. 74. Ger. strigosum Buch ! 196. no. 334. Ger. 
dconium var. Desf. ii. 113. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 2, 3, ccc; 
PS. reg. 3, \. Sunny banks, mountain pastures and hills every- 
where, but scarcely below 500 ft. PS. on N. side of Pico d’Anna 
Ferreira. Jan.-June. — Foliage rather dull greyish or bluish, 
dark gr. Boot strong fusiform. St. several ascending more or 
less erect diffusely spreading stout 2-12 in. high mostly reddish 
on upper side clothed with copious short coarse harsh white 
cartilaginous deflexed bristles. Cot.- and root-1, tying flat to the 
ground undivided 3-4-crenate or lobate about 2 in. long and 1 in. 
broad, the upper more deeply cut or gashed nearly to the mid- 
rib : all somewhat rigid or stiffish and adpressedly hispid prin- 
cipally on the nerves, opposite, dark gr. and shining with a dull 
leaden lustre. Ped. mostly 2-fl. stout reddish and with pedic. 
and cal. often finely viscose-pubescent. Fl. rather large and 
conspicuous somewhat ringent; pet. not more than tyd longer 
than the mucronate or shortly awned sep. pale rose-purple, with 
