MONADELPHIA. PENTANDRIA. Erodium. 799 
j Riv. Pent. 112. G. mosch .— (E. Bot. 902. E.)— Jacq. Hort. i. 55— Blackw. 
150— Matth. 856— Bod. 63. 1— Lob. Obs. 376. 1, and Ic. i. 658. 2— Ger. 
Em. 941 —Park. 709. 1 — Pet. 65. 2— H. Ox. v. 15. 10— Ger. 796— Trag. 
347. 
Very like E. cieutarium; of an ambrosial scent. Linn. Whole plant more 
hairy than E. cieutarium; hairs viscid,, particularly those of the calyx. 
Flowers more numerous, forming a roundish head. Pedicles shorter. 
Leaves , wings fewer, egg-shaped, sometimes only serrated, or jagged, 
rarely wing-cleft. Woodw. Stems swoln and crooked at the joints. 
Lea/its opposite and alternate, the terminal one three-cleft. Fruit- 
stalks with from four to ten flowers, as the calyx , thickly set with 
fine white hairs, ending in pellucid globules. Leaves unequal, ribbed, 
ending in fine points. Petals with three fibres. Seed-coat with strong 
yellow hairs. Blossom red or purple. Glands five, on the outside of the 
anther-bearing filaments, green. 
(Musky Stork’s-bill. Welsh: Pig y Creyr mwsgaidd. E.moschatum. 
Willd. De Cand. Sm. Grev. Geranium moschatum. Linn. Huds. With. 
Jacq. E.) Near Battersea; and between Bristol and St. Vincent’s 
Rocks. Ray. Near Stourbridge. Stokes. Hornsey, Yorkshire; and 
Farringdon, Somersetshire. Mr. Baker. At Teignmouth. (On Ampthill 
Warren, Bedfordshire. Rev. Dr. Abbot. By the side of the post road 
between the second and third mile-stones from Holyhead. Welsh Bot. 
Near Preston-pans. Dr. Graham. Grev. Edin. E.) A. May—Oct. 
(E. marit'imum. Stems trailing: leaves heart-egg-shaped, scolloped, 
cut, rough: fruit-stalks one to three-flowered. 
Dicks. H. S. — (E. Bot. 646. E.)—Pluk. 31. 4— Pet. 65. I—II. Ox. v. 35. 
row. 3 .f 2. 
Stems branched, lying close to the ground, three to nine inches long. Root- 
leaves on long stalks, spreading in a circle on the ground, hairy, variously 
cut and jagged, sometimes nearly lobed; stem-leaves similar. Fruit- 
stalks shorter than the leaves, compressed. Beaks very small, not ex¬ 
ceeding half an inch in length. Leaf-stalks much longer than the leaves. 
Filaments spear-shaped. Anthers purple. Summits greenish-yellow. 
Blossoms pale red, small, one or more petals often wanting. 
Sea Stork’s-bill. (Welsh: Pig y Creyr arfor. E. maritimum. Sm. 
Willd. De Cand. Geranium maritimum. Linn. Huds. With. Dicks. 
Sandy sea shores, common. Shores of the Isle of Man. Mr. Robson. 
On the Point, Beaumaris, and about Penmon. Welsh Bot. Acle, Nor¬ 
folk. Mr. Crowe. Rocks at Portawen, Cornwall. Mr. Watt. Sandy 
commons between Enville and Bewdlev, Worcestershire, always in a 
south aspect. Mr. Hunter. Leigh Down, near Bristol. Rev. G. Swayne. 
Sea coast Teignmouth, with flowers from two to four on each fruit-stalk. 
(Among St. Vincent’s Rocks, below the sea-walls, and in other parts; 
single-flowered; leaves with five or six pairs of leafits. E.) 
P. June—Oct. 
