86 XX. GERANIACEiE. * \Erodium. 
with 5 — 7 deep trifid lobes, capsules smooth carinate downy 
with erect appressed hairs, seeds without dots. E. B. t. 385. 
Waste ground and in gravelly soils, frequent, less common in 
Scotland. About Edinburgh and Glasgow. ©. 6 — 9. — Stem weak, 
prostrate. Leaves deeply lobed. Flowers very small, bluish-purple. 
11. G. rotundifulium L. ( round-leaved C.) ; leaves roundish 
or reniform palmately lobed and cut downy, petals entire the 
length of the calyx, capsules even hairy, seeds dotted. E. B. 
t. 157. 
Pastures and waste ground, but not common. 0. 6, 7. — Dis- 
tinguished from the last two by the entire petals and dotted seeds, 
and from the first of them likewise by the smooth or even capsules. 
12. G. dissectum L. ( jagged-leaved C .) ; petals notched rather 
shorter than the much-awned calyx, leaves 5-partite, lobes 
linear trilid or cut, capsules even hairy, seeds dotted. E. B. 
t. 753, 
Hedges and pastures, gravelly and waste places. 0. 5 — 8. — 
Stems spreading. Characterised by the much-divided leaves and the 
short fool- stalks of the blossoms, which, as Curtis observes, thus appear 
as if sitting among the leaves. 
13. G. columblnum L. (long-stalked C.) ; peduncles longer 
than the leaves which are 5-partite, the lobes divided into many 
acute segments, petals entire as long as the much-awned angular 
calyx, capsules even glabrous, seeds dotted. E. B. t, 259. 
Dry pastures in several parts of Great Britain, in a gravelly or 
limestone soil. ©. 6, 7. — Stem very slender, procumbent, its 
bail's as in G. dissectum, reflexed. Capsules quite glabrous, or some- 
times with a few minute scattered hairs. 
2. Eeodium L'Herit. Stork’s-Bill. 
Pet. regular. Slam. 10, slightly monadelphous at the base; 
5 opposite the petals, sterile ; the other 5 alternating with a 
gland at their base. Caps, each with a long spiral awn, bearded 
on the inside. — Name tpwSiog, a heron; the fruit resembling 
the beak of that bird. 
1. E. cicutarium Sm. (Hemlock S.) ; peduncles many-flowered, 
leaves pinnate, leaflets sessile pinnatifid and cut, stipules lan- 
ceolate, petals longer than the calyx, stems prostrate hairy. 
E. B. t. 1768. 
Waste ground, frequent. ©. 6 — 9. — Whole plant hairy. Flowers 
in small umbels, purplish, sometimes white. Perfect stamens gla- 
brous, dilated, but not toothed at the base. Beak of fruit hairy or 
glabrous. 
2. E. mosckdtum Sm. (musky S.) ; peduncles many-flowered, 
leaves pinnate, leaflets nearly sessile ovate unequally cut, 
