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eles many-flowered ; leaves interruptedly pinnatifid-laci- 
niate. Root perennial, running very deep into the 
ground ; lower leaves fmooth and on very long footftalks; 
Items a foot and an half high, with leaves of the fame 
form, but fmaller and oppofite ; flowers purple, many 
together on very long peduncles ; the calyx is awned ; 
the petals are about twice as large, and entire. Native of 
Italy. The feeds were fent to Mr. Miller by Micheli. 
It flowers here in June, but the feeds do notripen in 
England. 
11. Erodium Romanum, or Roman crane’s-bill : ftem- 
lefs ; {'capes radical, many-flowered; leaves pinnate; 
leaflets pinnatifid. Native of Italy, about Rome, on the 
Pyrennees, alfo of Provence. It was cultivated in the 
botanic garden at Chelfea, in 1724. 
12. Erodium cicutarium, or hemlock-leaved crane’s- 
bill : peduncles many-flowered ; leaves pinnate ; leaflets 
ieffile pinnatifid. This fpecies varies extremely, from 
nearly fmooth to very hairy, and from very large and 
branched, with many a flowered umbel, to fmall and 
nearly Ample, with few flowers. 
Geranium pimpinellae-folio of Dillenius is a re¬ 
markable variety ; the petals irregular, the two upper 
(hotter, rounder, and marked with a greenifh fpot at the 
bale. The common, fort is found all over Europe, in 
Africa, Afia, North America, and the ifland of Madeira. 
The laft-mentioned variety has been found in England 
near Hackney, and in feveral parts of Suffolk. 
13. Erodium mofchatum, ormufk crane’s bill : pedun¬ 
cles many-flowered ; leave pinnate ; leaflets fubpetioled, 
unequally galhed. This is very like the preceding, but 
has an ambrofial or mufky fcent ; the whole plant is 
covered with hairs, which are glutinous, particularly tl)ofe 
of the calyx. All the parts are larger; the ftem is fwol- 
len and crooked at the joints. The wings are fewer in 
the leaves, ovate, fometimes only ferrate or jagged, rarely 
pinnatifid ; peduncles thickly fet with fine white hairs, 
ending in pellucid globules, with from four to ten flow¬ 
ers, forming a roundifh head ; corolla red or purple ; an¬ 
nual. Native of England, France, Switzerland, the Cape 
of Good Hope, Syria, Barbary, Peru. With us about 
Batterfea, Streatham, &c. near London, near Briftol, 
Stourbridge ; in Weftmoreland and Yorkfhire. 
14. Erodium tordylioides, or Algiers crane’s-bill : pe¬ 
duncles many-flowered ; leaves bipinnatifid, unequally 
ferrate, the outmoft lobes confluent. This feems to differ 
from the preceding in having a perrennial root, and bi- 
pinnate leaves ; but it is perhaps no more than a variety. 
Found on rocks near Algiers by Desfontaines. 
15. Erodium gruinum, or broad-leaved annual crane’s- 
bill : peduncles many-flowered ; leaves ternate, crenate- 
toothed, the outmoft pinnatifid-lobed. This is an annual 
plant with very broad leaves, cut on their Tides regular and 
crenate. The ftem is quite fmooth; whereas in the next 
fpecies it is rough with hairs, or ftrigofe. Native of 
Spain, Sicily, Candia, Cyprus, Syria. 
16. Erodium ciconium, or long-beaked crane’s-bill. 
This alfo is an annual plant, which has feveral proftrate 
fiems near a foot long; flowers pale blue ; beaks of the 
fruit long, but by no means fo long or large as thofe of the 
preceding. Native of the fouth of Europe, Barbary, Sy¬ 
ria, Cyprus, Madeira. Cultivated in the botanic garden 
at Chelfea in 1724. 
/ 9 . Geranium botrys, or hairy crane’s-bill. In this va¬ 
riety the whole plant is rough with hairs. It is a native 
of Spain, Portugal, and Italy, on l'andy coafts. 
17. Erodium lacerum, or torn crane’s-bill : peduncles 
,many-flowered ; leaves doubly-pinnafifid ; fegmentsvery 
remote, linear, quite entire. Stem grooved, branched, 
more than a foot high ; fruit rufefcent, with a beak two 
inches long. Native of Portugal. 
18. Erodium diphyllum, or two-leaved crane’s-bill : 
peduncles many-flowered ; involucres two-leaved, round- 
difli ; lower leaves three-lobed, upper pinnatifid laciniate, 
gafhed. The involucre is compofed of two oppoftte, 
membranaceous, largifh brakes, that are very confpi- 
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cuous, and give it the fignificant trivial name. Native of 
Portugal, Gibraltar, Algiers, Tunis, Candia, and Cyprus; 
annual. 
19. Erodium muticum, or beardlefs crane’s-bill : pe¬ 
duncles many-flowered ; leaves ternatifid, gaflied, tooth¬ 
ed ; calyxes awnlefs. Found by Desfontaines in the 
kingdom of Tunis. 
20. Erodium hymenodes, or Barbary erodium : pedun¬ 
cles many-flowered; leaves ternate or ternatifid; feg- 
ments roundifh, lobed. Found by Desfontaines on’rocks 
in Barbary. 
21. Erodium incarnatum, or flefh-coloured crane’s-bill: 
peduncles few-flowered; leaves three-parted or ternate, 
trifid, rugged; ftem fomewhat fttrubby. This has the 
habit of Potentilla, with a (lender, fmooth, hard ftem, in¬ 
clining to fhrubbinefs. The leaves are on very long pe¬ 
tioles, heart-fhaped, roundifh, undivided, fmall ; ftipnles 
lanceolate, very fharp ; flowers red, flefh-coloured, or fear- 
let, with a paler difk. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
II. Leaves lobed, or undivided. 22. Erodium mala- 
coides, or mallow-leaved crane’s-bill : peduncles many- 
flowered ; leaves heart-fhaped, three-lobed ; lobes lobed 
obtufe, obfoletely-toothed. This is an annual plant, 
with the lower leaves heart-fhaped and three-lobed ; 
branches inclining to the ground, and fpreading a foot and 
an half each way. The peduncles are placed on the fide 
of thefe, and fuftain many bright-red flowers. The fruits 
have long beaks. Native of the South of Europe, Ma¬ 
deira, Barbary, Syria, the iflands of the Archipelago and 
in Peru. The Geranium Chium is a variety, native of 
the ifland of Chio. 
23. Erodium populifolium, or poplar-leaved erodium : 
peduncles many-flowered ; leaves heart-fhaped, fublobed, 
obtufe-toothed ; ftamens hirfute. This has the habit of 
the preceding ; from which, however, ft feems to differ 
in its ftipulation, and in the hirfutenefs of the filaments, 
which are fmooth in malacoides and chium. Found in Bar¬ 
bary by Poiret. 
24. Erodium nervulofum, or nerved erodium : pedun¬ 
cles many-flowered ; leaves heart-fhaped, almoft undi¬ 
vided, toothed, thick, nerved. Native of Sicily. 
23. Erodium glaucophyllum, or glaucous crane’s-bill : 
peduncles many-flowered ; leaves oblong, obfoletely cre¬ 
nate, glaucous ; beaks feathered. This is an annual plant, 
with leaves very like thofe of E. malacoides, but fmooth; 
ftem extremely fimple, very ftiort. Native of Egypt. 
26. Erodium guttatum, or fpotted crane’s-bill: pedun¬ 
cles three-flowered ; leaves heart-fhaped, obfoletely lobed, 
tooth-ferrate, afh-coloured, the centre ofa different colour. 
This is very nearly allied to the preceding, but the herb 
is filkand hoary, not naked and glaucous, as in that. The 
flowers are violet-coloured, with a very dark violet difk, 
and are extremely fweet-feented. Found by Shaw and 
Desfontaines in IJarbary. 
27. Erodium maritimum, or fea crane’s bill: peduncles 
three-flowered or thereabouts ; leaves heart-fhaped, gafh¬ 
ed, crenate, rugged ; fiems depreffed. Stems branched, 
lying clofe to the ground ; flowers one to three, pale red, 
fmall ; beaks of the fruit very fmall, not exceeding half 
an inch in length. Native of England and Holland, on 
the coaft ; Norfolk and Cornwall ; alfo on fandy com¬ 
mons in Worcefterfhire. 
28. Erodium chamaedryoides, or dwarf crane’s-bill : 
almoft ftemlefs ; peduncles one-flowered ; leaves heart- 
fhaped, obtufe, crenate. Native of Minorca and Corfica. 
It has been known many years to the nurfery-men by the 
name G. Reichardi, in compliment to a French gentle¬ 
man, who fir ft difeovered it in the ifland of Minorca. 
Propagation and Culture , fee Geranium. 
ERO'DHJS, f. in entomology, a genus belonging to 
the order of coleoptera ; the generic charafters of which 
are : antennae moniliform ; feelers four, filiform ; body 
roundifh, gibbous, immarginate; thorax tranfverfe ; fhells 
clofely united, longer than the abdomen ; jaw horny, bi¬ 
fid ; lip horny, emarginate. There are only four fpecies 
of this infeft at prefent known; and thefe, from their 
ft] ape. 
