Geranium Pyrenaicum, perennial Doves-foot Cranesbill. 
GERANIUM Lin. Gen. PI. Monadelphia Decandria. 
Monogyna. Stigmat. 5. FruSius roftratus, 5-coccus. 
PmU Syn. Gen. 24. Herb^ pentapetaljE VAScuLiPERiE. 
GERANIUM Pyrenaicum pedunculis bifloris, foliis inferioribus quinquepartito-multifidis, rotundatis ; 
fuperioribus trilobis, caule erefto. Linn. Syjl. Vegetab.p. 514. 
GERANIUM pedunculis bifloris, foliis multifldis, laciniis obtufis, insqualibus, petalis bifidis. Gerard. 
FLGalk-prov.p. 16.Z. Hudjon FI Angled z.p.goz, Lighifooi FI. Scot.p.-^bj. 
RADIX perennis. ? 
CAULES fuberedri, pubefeentes, pedales, et ultra, ra- | 
mofi, geniculati, geniculis paululum incraf- t 
fatis. I 
FOLIA radicalid rotundata, hirfutula, venofa, margine ^ 
fepe rubicunda, leptemlobata, lohis fubtri- t 
fidis, laciniis obtufiufculis, mucronatis, in- | 
termedia majore ; caulina oppolita, lobis pau- % 
cioribus, iifque poftice magis remotis. | 
PETIOLI radicaleSy praelongi, teretes, pubefeentes, fi | 
difeindantur extremitatibus fuis pun(Sta qua- | 
tuor alba exhibentes. | 
STIPUL./E ad fingula genicula qiiaterns, utrinque 7 
bin*, genicula ambientes, bifid*, vel trifi- | 
d*, rubentes, perfilientes. 4 
PEDUNCULI pubefeentes, bifidi, blflori, Pedicelli ? 
longitudine pedunculi, bafi fiipulis quaternis | 
minoribus notati. ? 
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FLORES majufeuli, purpurei, antequam aperiuntur 4 
nutantes, poftea ere£li. ? 
CALYX: Perianthium quinquepartitum, laciniis | 
ovato-lanceolatis, brevi mucrone fufeo obtu- ? 
fiufculo terminatis, trinervibus, ciliatis, fub- | 
vifeofis. Jig. I. ^ 
COROLLA: Petala quinque, calyce duplo longi- ? 
ora, obeordata, apice bifida, bafi viliofa.yf^. 2. | 
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NECTARIUM ; Glandu/ep qyiinc[vie flavefeentes ad bafin | 
Staminum. Jig, 5. ^ 
STAMINA : Filamenta decem, alba, apice pur- T 
purafceiitia ; Anther.® cnerulefcentes; Pol- | 
LEN album, globofum. Anther* extus pofit* j 
pollen pr* c*teris dimittunt, et dein deci- | 
dunt, nujiquam vero abortiunt. Jig. 3. | 
PISTILLUM : Germen pentagonum, viride ; Stylus t 
fulcatiis; Stigmata quinque, longitudine | 
Antherarum. Jig. 4. ^ 
FRUCTUS pentacoccus, Arillus carinatus, hirfutuius. ? 
fg- 6. I 
SEMEN ovatum, fufeum, I*ve. ^ 
ROOT perennial. 
nearly upright, and downy, a foot high, or 
more, branched, and jointed, the joints a lit- 
tle fwelled. 
LEAVES of the root of a roundifh figure, fomewhat 
hirfute, and veiny, the edge often reddilh, 
divided into feven lobes, each of which is fub- 
divided into about three bluutifli legments, 
terminated by a Ihort point, the middle feg- 
ment the largeft ; thofe of the Jtalk oppofite, 
compofed of fewer lobes, and thole more 
. widely feparating behind. 
LEAF-STALRS next the root very long; round, and 
downy, exhibiting if cut acrofs four white 
dots on their extretnlties. 
STIPUL.^ : four at each joint, two on each fide, fur- 
rounding the joint, divided into two or three 
fegments, of a reddifli colour and permanent. 
FLOWER-STALKS downy, bifid, fupporting two 
flowers, Partial flower-ftalks the length of 
the general one, and funiilhed at bottom with 
four fmaller fiipul*. 
FLOWERS largilh and purple, before they open hang- 
ing down, afterwards becoming uprjght. 
CALYX : a Perianthium divided into five oval 
pointed fegments, terminated by a Ihort brown 
bluntilh point, having three ribs, edged with 
hairs, and llightly clammy, fig. i. 
COROLLA : five Petals twice the length of the 
calyx, inverfely heart-fliaped, bifid at top, at 
bottom villous, jig. 2. 
NECTARY : five yellowiih Glands placed at the bot- 
tom of the Stamina. 5. 
STAMINA; ten Filaments, purplifli at top. An- 
ther® blueifh ; Pollen white and globular. 
The outer row of anther* Ihed their pohen 
firft and then drop off, but are never intertile, 
fig' 3' 
PISTILLUM: Germen five corner’d, of a green co- 
lour; Style grooved ; Stigmata five, the 
length of the Anther*. 4. 
FRUIT compofed of five prominent feeds, feed-cover- 
ing mark’d with a prominent line, and flightly 
hirfute. 6. 
SEED oval, brown, and fmooth. 
The great fimilarity exiffing between the prefent Geranium, the molle, and rotundifioUum, has occafioned no fmall 
confufion among the fynonyms of Authors, which as Haller obferves, are covered with impenetrable obfeurity. 
Neverthelefs an attentive obfervance of the plants themfelves, as they grow wild, will fliew that they may be 
diftinguifhed without any great difficulty. In treating of the molle which is the mofi: liable to be miftaken for 
this fpecies, I obferved that it was fubjea to many varieties, particularly In the colour of its blofloms, that its 
ffalks, always procumbent when the plant grew alone, were liable to grow upright among grafs and herbage and 
that in fome rich pafiures the flowers approached almofi: to the fize of thofe of the prefent plant. Having culti- 
vated mofi of our Englifh Geraniums I can with certainty declare that the molle is firricHy an annual, and the Py- 
renaicum perennial, this then confHtutes an eflential difference between the two, befides, the pyrenaicum ufually 
grows to twice the _fize,_ its blofloms alfo are more than thrice as large, it is never p’rocumbent but always 
nearly upright, and it is likewife, with us at leaft, a much fcarcer plant. ^ 
Mons: Gerard in \i\?,FloraGalloprovincialis\.z.% the merit of firfi giving an accurate defeription and figure of this 
plant, he fuppofes it to be \X\t Geranium columbimm perenne pyrenaicum maximum oi Lin- 
n®us has given it the name of p'^renaicum ; Mr. Hudson in the firfi edition of his Flora Anglica called it perenne 
but in the lafl he has adopted the name of Linn®us, I have hitherto found this plant growing wild in one fpot 
only, viz. in the dry part of the pafturage in Batterfiea Fields, on the left hand fide of the road as you pafs from 
London by the Thames fide, betwixt the Red Houfe and Chelfea Bridge. ^ 
In Chelfea Garden it comes up as a w'eed and is there found alfo with white flowers. 
It blows in June and July, 
