800 MONADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Geranium 
DECANDRIA. 
GERA'NITJM.* (Monogynous : Fruit beaked, separating into 
five monospermous capsules, each with a long, naked, 
simple awn , (neither spiral nor bearded. E.) 
(1) Blossoms regular; fruit-stalks single-flowered. 
G. sanguin'eum. (Stalks single-flowered: leaves roundish, in five or 
seven deeply serrated trihd lobes. E.) 
(Book. FI. Bond. 155 — FI. Ban. 1107. E.)— E. Bot . 272 — Kniph.7 — Wale . 
— Clus. ii. 102. 1 — Lob. Ic. i. 660. 1 — Ger. Em. 945. 2 — Pet. 64. 9 —- 
Fuchs. 209— J. B. iii. 478. 2 — Lonic. i. 152. 2 — Trag. 348 — Park. Par. 
227. 6. 
Stem hairy, from a foot to a cubit high. Leaves above rough, hairy under¬ 
neath and on the edge. Fruit-stalks three inches long, hairy, with a 
knot and two floral-leaves about the middle. Relh. Calyx leaves oval, 
with membranous reddish edges, and terminated by a short red awn. 
Petals inversely heart-shaped, very large, equal, pale red, with deep red 
veins. Woodw. Whole plant set with wdiite expanding hairs. Leaves 
opposite. Petals hairy at the base. ( Capsules even, bristly at the sum¬ 
mit. Seeds minutely wrinkled. Sm. The circumstance of the stem being 
upright or trailing in these species, affords no certain characteristic. E.) 
Bloody Crane’s-bill. (Welsh: Pig yr Aran rhuddgoch. E.) Lime¬ 
stone rocks, stony places, dry pastures, heaths, and thickets, in moun¬ 
tainous situations. Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh. Lightfoot. Rocks near 
the sea, Cornwall. Mr. Watt. Near Buxton, Derbyshire, and Roose- 
heck in Low Furness, Lancashire. On a heath near Woodbridge, Suf¬ 
folk. Mr. Woodward. (Sand hills. North Shore, near Liverpool. Dr. 
Bostock. Lower part of Castle Eden Dean, Durham. Mr. Winch. 
Abundant in Anglesey, just above the sea. Welsh Bot. E.) St. Vin¬ 
cent’s Rocks, (and about Brislington, E.) Bristol. On the left side the 
lower road from Cheltenham to Gloucester, two miles from the former 
place. P. July—Sept. 
Var. 2. Leaves larger, paler, and more deeply divided. Ray. 
Pet. 64. 10. 
Banks of the Devil’s Ditch, Newmarket, Relhan ; and the left side of Dal* 
lingham Gap going from Canvas Hall, Cambridgeshire. Ray. 
(Var. 3. All the parts of the plant evidently smaller; leaves strikingly 
more compact and star-like; peduncles much less hairy. Stem either 
trailing or upright. This plant preserves its peculiar appearance in gar¬ 
dens, as proved by Mr. Sole at Bath, and also by Mr. Curtis, who there¬ 
fore judged it distinct, as did Ray. E.) 
Bill Elth. 136— Pet. 64. 11. 
Flowers white, with reddish veins. Ray. The figure of Dillenius too large. 
Woodw. Grows intermixed with G. sanguineum in the Isle of Walney, 
* (From yepavos, a crane; the elongated permanent style resembling the beak of that 
bird, E.) 
