Geranium Dissectum. Jagged Crane s-Bill. 
GERANIUM. Linn. Gen. PI. Mokadelphia Decandria. 
Monagyna. Stigmata 5. Mb rotattus, pentacoccus. . 
RaiiSyn. Gen. 24. Herb* pentapetal* yascdlifer*. 
SelpaiiFi. Cam. ed. 2. n. 848. Hud/on FI. Angl. p. 304. Ugbfrt Pi Scot. 37!. 
GERANIUM caule ereEo, foliis quinquelobis, lobis trifidis acutis. B all. FUJI. 937. 
GERANIUM foliis imis ufque ad pedunculum divifis. Vaill. Parif. tab. 15. f 2. 
GERANIUM l^ aiS f0liiS ' 
RADIX annua, teres, fubfibrofa, fufea. 
CAULES plures, fubpedales, patentes, teretiufeuli, 
pallide virides, hinc rubentes, pilis crebris, 
brevibus, albis, deorfum fpe&antibus, obliti, 
nodofi, ramofi, ramis alternis, divaricato- 
patulis. 
FOLIA oppofita, longe petiolata, quinquepartita, laci- 
niis tri-fexfidis, dillantibus, linearibus, inae- 
qualibus, acutiufculis, venolis, utrinque pilis 
furfum fpeftantibus inftru&is, margine apice- 
que rubris, finubus obtufis. Lacinias foliorum 
radicalium magis approximatas et obtufiores, 
petiolis divaricato-patulis, comprefliufculis, 
uti caulis pilolis. 
STIPULAE biloba?, bafx lata, albida, lobis femicorda- 
tis, acuminatis, rubris, nitentibus, linea dor- 
fali albida, margineque ciliatis. 
FLORES parvi, purpureo -rubri. 
PEDUNCULI biflori, foliis breviores. 
CALYX: PerianthiuM pentaphyllum, foliolis ova- t 
to -oblongis, trinervibus, arillatis, pilis glandu- { 
lofis obfitis, fig. 1. 
COROLLA calyce paulo brevior. Petala quinque, <j 
oblongo-obcordata, emarginata, fig. 2. - 
NECT ARIUM : Glandula quinque virides, cum] 
petalis alternantes, fig. 3. 
STAMINA: Filamenta decem, germen cingentia.; 
Anthers fubovatte, cceruleze, fig. 4. 
PISTILLUM: Germen pentagonum, roftratum, pilis 1 
glandulolis veftitum. Stylus cylindricus, t 
perfiftens. Stigma quinquefidum, rufefeens, { 
fig- 5 • 
SEMINA arillata. Arillus villofus, fig. 6 . 
§ ROOT annual, round, fomewhat fibrous, brown. 
I STALKS many, about a foot long, fpreading, round- 
ifh, of a pale green, here and there reddilh, 
befet with a number of white, fhort hairs, 
pointing downwards ; jointed, branched ; the 
branches alternate, divaricated, fpreading. 
\ LEAVES oppofite, on long footftalks, deeply divided 
into five fegments, which are again divided 
into from three to fix fmaller ones, diftant, 
linear, unequal, fomewhat pointed, veiny, on 
both fides befet with hairs pointing upwards, 
their edge and tips red, the finuffes obtufe. 
The fegments of the radical leaves approach 
j nearer to each other, and are more obtufe, 
j footftalks foreading, a little flattened, hairy 
) like the ftalk. 
j STIPULAE compofed of two lobes, with a broad white 
bafe, the lobes femicordate, acuminated, red, 
filming, having a whitifh line on the back, 
which together with the margin is edged with 
hairs. 
\ FLOWERS fmall, of a purplifh red colour. 
) PEDUNCLES two-flower’d, Ihorter than the leaves. 
CALYX: a Perianthium with five, ovato-oblong, 
three-rib’d, awned leaves, befet with glan- 
dulous hairs, fig. 1. 
COROLLA a little Ihorter than the calyx. Petals 
five, oblongo-obcordate, emarginated, fig. 2. 
NECTARY : five green glandules, placed alternately 
with the petals, fig. 3. 
STAMINA: ten Filaments furrounding the germen. 
Anthers nearly ovate, blue, fig. 4. 
PISTILLUM five-comer ’d, beaked, befet with glan- 
dulous hairs. Style cylindrical permanent. 
Stigma quinquefid, reddilh, fig. 5. 
■ SEEDS covered with a villous Arillus, fig. 6 . 
We have figured this fpecies in the ftate we ufually find it among the herbage, on the borders of meadows 
and paftures ; a lituation which with us it very much affects ; of courfe it is more drawn up than when it grows 
fingly, which it frequently does by road fides, and in fallow fields. 
It flowers in May and June. 
It varies greatly in fize, and we have feen it with white and flefh coloured bloffoms. 
It can fcarcely be miftaken for any of the other Britilh fpecies ; we may remark, however, that it is not only 
diftinguilhed by its finely divided leaves, but that its bloffoms (ufually of a bright colour) being furniflied with 
very Inort footftalks, appear fitting as it were among the leaves ; the petals alfo are ufually Ihorter than the calyx 
by the awns of the latter, which are unufually long ; the calyx, but more particularly the ftyle, which becomes 
the roftrum, is thickly covered with vifeid hairs ; the hairs on the ftalk afford likewife a good diftin&ion, as they 
do not fpread horizontally as in many of the other fpecies, but obvioufly point downward, which is accurately 
noticed in Monf. Vaili-ANt's figure. 
