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XX. GERANIACEAS. 
[ Geranium. 
* Peduncles 1 -flowered. 
1. G. sanguineum L. ( bloody C.) ; leaves nearly orbicular in 
5 — 7 deep lobes each of which is trifid, carpels even with bristly 
hairs at the summit, seeds minutely wrinkled and dotted. — 
a. flowers purple. E. B. t. 272. — /a. prostrate, flowers flesh- 
coloured with purple veins. G. Lancastriense With. 
Alpine or limestone pastures, in many places ; but not very general, 
— j8. Sands in Walney Island, Lancashire. If.. 7. — Stem ] — 1 ^ ft. 
high, swelling at the joints. Peduncles axillary, long. Flowers large, 
handsome. 
** Peduncles 2-Jlowered. Root perennial. 
2. G. plue'um L. ( dusky C.) ; peduncles opposite the leaves, 
calvx slightly awned, petals waved, capsules hairy below trans- 
versely wrinkled above, stem erect. E. B. t. 322. 
Woods and thickets, but usually the outcast of a garden. 2L. 5, 6. 
— Stem 2 ft. or more high, dichotomously branched. Leaves 3 — 7- 
lobed. lobes acute, cut and serrated. Flowers very dingy, purple- 
black : a var. with white flowers is found on the sands of Barrie near 
Dundee. . 
3. G. * nodosum L. ( knotty C .) ; stem glabrous, leaves opposite 
with 5 or 3 deep pointed serrated lobes, petals with a deep 
notch, sepals long-awned, capsules even downy all over. E. B. 
t. 1091. 
Said to have been gathered in the mountainous parts of Cumberland, 
and between Hatfield and Welwyn, Herts ; but no specimens have been 
observed there for many years. Banks of the Tweed. 71. 5 — 8. — 
Allied to this in the fruit and in several other respects, but differing 
by the hairy stem, is G. striatum, stated to grow on a rabbit-warren 
near Flimbv, between Workington and Maryport, Cumberland, “ op- 
posite the first gate after the road has turned from the valley of the 
Derwent to follow the coast towards Maryport;” also “apparently 
wild” near Penzance and St. Austell, Cornwall, and Chepstow : but 
both this and G- nodosum are plants almost peculiar to a southern 
clime, and cannot be expected to be indigenous to us. 
4. G. sylvdticum L. ( Wood C.); pedicels of fruit erect, leaves 
subpeltate with 5 or 7 deep and acute lobes which are cut and 
serrated, stem erect corymbose, petals obovate slightly notched, 
their claws bearded, sepals awned, stamens subulate, capsules 
even hairy, seeds dotted. E. B. t. 121. 
Woods, thickets, and sides of ri ers, chiefly in subalpine countries. 
Tf.. 6,7. — Stem 1 — 3 ft. high. Flowers purple, rather larger than those 
of G. plupum, but much smaller than in the following species. Speci- 
mens with smaller and pale rose-coloured flowers sometimes occur. 
5. G. pratenseh. (blue Meadoiv C.); pedicels of fruit deflexedi 
leaves 5-partite, lobes multipartite all the segments acute, pe- 
tals obovate slightly notched their claws ciliated (not bearded) 
