Geranium Parviflorum. Small-Flowered 
C ran e ’ s Bill. 
GERANIUM. 
GERANIUM 
GERANIUM 
GERANIUM 
GERANIUM 
GERANIUM 
GERANIUM 
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pilis appreffis vejiiris. _ caule depreffo foliis reniformibus palmaris 
tS' ri*n, h 9S7 . mJ*. «5. 
full ramofo, foliis fubrotundo-lobatis, lobis trifidis, floribus minimis 
pentandris coeruleis. Cavanilles Dijs. p. 202. ■ 3 - ./■ • 
foliis hirfutis, femifeptilobis, lobis femitrilobis, obtufis. ^//. //-//. 940. 
malva folium. Scopoh FI. Carntol. ed. 2. n. 847. , Qvnatif ■h ocR 
columbinum majus, flore minore coeruleo. Rati Hijl. g 1 ™*' P - 1 ° 59 - y Pf- P' 35 ' 
The greater blue-flowered Dovesfoot-Cranefbill. Vaill. Pari/, tab. 15. f. 1. 
RADIX annua, teres, fibrofa, rubefcens. | 
CAULES dilfufi, fubpedales, teretes, pallide virides V 
aut fubrubentes, vix pubefcentes, ramofi. i 
FOLIA fubrotunda, feptemfida, laciniis patentibus, tri- X 
fidis, obtufis, quibufdam profundius partitis, | 
finubus acutiufculis ; venofa, villofa, mollia, § 
pallide viridia ; radicalia longiflime petiolata ; $ 
caulina oppofita, magnitudine inaequalia, Ion- V 
gitudine pedunculis iubaequalia, laciniis acu- V 
tioribus. X 
STIPULAE, lanceolate, bafi late, rubras, nitentes, la- X 
ciniis acutis, ciliatis. © 
FLORES minuti, purpureo-ccerulei. 0 
PEDUNCULI fubunciales, axillares, folitarii, biflori. f 
BRACTEAE feu Involucra ftipulis fimilia, modo bre- a 
viora. | 
CALYX: Perianthium pentaphyllum, foliolis ovatis, | 
acutis, furfum pilofis, ftriatis, albo marginatis ; © 
duobus exterioribus latioribus, jig. 1. f 
COROLLA calyce paulo major, campanulato-hians, | 
petalis 5 obcordatis, emarginatis, fg. 2. | 
NECT ARIUM: Glandulae 5 virides, cum petalis f 
alternantes, Jig. 3. auct. C 
STAMINA: Filamenta decem germen cingentia,! 
quorum quinque longiora, fertilia, quinque ! 
alterna breviora, fterilia, Jig. 4, 5. Anther./e | 
quinque, fubovate, ccerulete, Jig. 6 . I 
PISTILLUM uti in affinibus, Jig. 7. | 
SEMINA folitaria, reniformia, glabra, arillata, rufa. § 
Arilli caudati, pallide fufci, Iseves, pilis 0 
albis, longitudinaliter adpreffis, obfiti, Jig. 8. 0 
au&. Jig. 9. | 
ROOT annual, round, fibrous, reddiffi. 
STALKS fpreading, about a foot long, pale green, 
or fometimes reddiffi, very ffightly downy, 
branched. 
LEAVES roundiffi, divided into feven lobes, the lobes 
trifid, obtufe, fome of them more deeply di- 
vided, the finufes rather acute; veiny, villous, 
loft, pale green; the radical ones on very long 
footftalks; the ftalk-leaves oppofite, of an 
unequal fize, nearly as long as the peduncles, 
their lobes more acute. 
STIPULAE lanceolate, broad at bottom, red, fluffing, 
fegments ffiarp, edged with hairs. 
FLOWERS very fmall, of a purpliffi blue colour. 
PEDUNCLES from the axilla, about an inch long, 
two-flowered. 
BRACTEAE or Involucra like the ftipuls, but 
fmaller. 
CALYX : a Perianthium of five leaves, which are 
ovate, acute, covered with hairs which point 
upwards, ftriated, with a white margin, the 
two outer ones wider than the reft. Jig. 1. 
COROLLA a little larger than the calyx, bell-ffiaped 
and open, confifting of five obcordate, emar- 
ginated petals, jig. 2. 
NECTARY : five green Glandules, placed alter- 
nately with the petals. Jig. 3. magnified. 
STAMINA: ten Filaments furrounding the germen, 
five of which are longer and fertile, the other 
five ffiorter and fterile, Jig. 4, k. The five 
Anthers are nearly ovate, ana blue,^g. 6 . 
PISTILLUM as in the other, fig. j. 
SEEDS folitary, kidney-ftaped, fmooth, reddiffi, co- 
vered with an arillus. The Arillus pale 
brown, fmooth, with white longitudinal hairs 
prefled clofely to it, jig. 8. magnified at jig. 9. 
While fome Botanifts have confounded this fpecies with the molle already figured in this work, others have 
miftaken it for the rotundifolum, from both of which it is fpecifically different: Ray and Vaillant, among the 
older Botanifts, appear to have had a perfe&ly clear idea of it, as is evident from the defcription of the one and 
the figure of the other ; in the third edition of Ray’s Synopfis, Dillenius has defcribed and figured a plant 
which he calls Geranium columbinum humile Jlore cceruleo minimo; this plant was firft adopted by Linnaeus in his 
Spec. Plantar, under the name of pujillum, as appears from his referring to this very figure, a name applicable 
enough to Dillenius’s plant as figured by him, but not to Ray’s and Vaillant’s, which is the one here 
intended. Whether Dillenius’s plant be a ftinted variety of ours, or a diftinft fpecies, we ffiall not take upon 
us at prefent to determine ; if the former, his figure, like that of his Cerajlium femidecandrum , has contributed 
greatly to miflead ; if the latter, the name of pujillum would appear to be a very proper one, and may at any 
time be made ufe of. } 
Notwith handing there are ftrong reafons for fuppofing, from obfervations made in the latter works of 
Linn-eus, that our plant is his pujillum, we have thought a name fo very inapplicable ought not to remain as a 
Humbling -block, and have therefore fubftituted parvijlorutn, as coinciding with Ray’s defcription. 
Having already defcribed this plant minutely, we ffiall only mention a few of the finking charafters in which 
it differs from the molle ; m what refpeft it varies from rotundifolium, will be particularly fpecified when we 
figure that plant. 
At firft fight it differs from the molle, in having its leaves more divided, of a paler and more yellow colour 
its bloffoms much fmaller, of a bluer and lefs brilliant hue ; more clofely examined the ftalks are fcarce’ 
perceptibly hairy, or but flightly pubefeent, the leaves in general grow oppofite, frequently not fo towards the 
top of the flalks and are more open behind; the (lamina bearing antherm are nevermore than five and the 
arillus or coat of the feed, inftead of being tranfverfely wrinkled, as we have figured it in the mile is compa- 
ratively fmooth : for this latter diilmaion, which is a very effential one, a d indeed, I may fay, for the difeoverv 
of the plant I am indebted to the fupenor difeernment of my much-efteemed and ingenious friend Mr Daval 
of Or be in Switzerland. 0 ‘ ’ 
On the Weft fide of London, particularly in the negMed gardens, and fallow-fields about Little-Chelfea 
where the foil is light, this fpecies ,s quite a weed; on the Eaftern fide, at leaft near the metropolis it is more 
rarely found: m many parts of England it grows equally common with the molle, than which it ufiallv forms 
a larger tuft, and fometimes varies with white flowers. 
It bloffoms in June and July. 
