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1-seeded^ awned^ awns naked and straight. 
1. G. erect, retrorsely pubescent ; stem dichoto- *»acuiatum. 
mous; leaves opposite, 3-5-parted, incised, 
upper ones sessile ; peduncles elongated, two- 
flowered, petals obovate. — WilUL 
Icon. Bart. Veg. Mat. Med. U. S. vol. 1. 1. 13. 
Wild-geranium. Common Crane^s-MIL Spotted 
Crane^ s-MlL 
A fine showy species, with large purple flowers. About 
fifteen or eighteen inches high. Possesses medicinal virtues. 
(See Veg. Mat. Med. U. S.) In shady woods, meadows, bor- 
ders of fields, and in hedges ; very common. Perennial. June, 
July- 
£. G. diffuse, pubescent; Raves opposite, 5-lobed, caroiinian- 
trifid, incised ; peduncles £-flowered, subfasci- 
culate ; petals emarginate, of the length of the 
awns of the calix, arillus, villose. — Willd. and 
Furslu 
G. Carolinianum, /3. album, Muhl. 
G. lanuginosum, Jacq. hort. schroenb. £. t. 140. 
(Pursh.) 
White-flowered Crane^s-biU. 
Almost procumbent, but very spreading. Flowers quite 
small, white. In the sandy fields of Jersey, and cultivated fields 
elsewhere ; common. Biennial. July. 
3. G. peduncles two-flowered, longer than the leaf, Columbinum. 
leaves 5-parted ; lobes multifid, linear, petals 
emarginate; capsules smooth, seeds reticulate. 
— Smithy Willd. and Pursh. 
A small species, scarcely exceeding six inches in height, 
with deep purple flowers on a very long peduncle. On the 
borders of fields and thickets, near Woodbury ; common. I 
have not found it elsewhere. Annual. July. 
4. G. peduncles 2-flowered, flowers pentandrous, 
petals emarginate, of the length of the awnless 
