806 MONADELPHI A. DECANDRIA. Geranium. 
Stem widely dividing, cylindrical, downy, viscid. Leaves rounded, velvety, 
somewhat viscid, especially underneath, lobed, with a red point in the 
hollows. Leafstalks reddish brown. Calyx awned, wrinkled, expand¬ 
ing, with three longitudinal wrinkles. Petals wedge-shaped, very blunt, 
with three reddish brown scores at the base, the under surface not lying 
upon, but raised from the calyx. Anthers yellow. Linn. Stipules spear- 
shaped; floral-leaves always of a deep red. Woodw. Seeds dotted. 
Flowers purplish flesh colour, sometimes white. (All the leaves opposite. 
Sm. E.) 
Round-leaved Crane’s-bill. Walls, roofs, ditch banks, and sandy 
pastures, about Bath, Bristol, Battersea, Wandsworth, Mortlake, and 
Kew. In Suffolk, common. Mr. Woodward. St. Vincent’s Rocks, 
Bristol. (On old walls about Hampton, Claverton, and Hinton, in 
Somersetshire. Mr. Sole. On the hedge banks at Salt Meadows near 
Gateshead, Durham. Winch Guide. Common on walls in Oxford. 
Rough and sterile places about Garn, Denbigh. Mr. Griffith. On a 
wall at Hartlebury, Worcestershire. Burton. Arthur’s Seat. Dr. Gra¬ 
ham. Grev. Edin. E.) A. May—July. 
Obs. Should the characters attempted to be principally derived from the seeds and seed- 
coats or capsules prove unsatisfactory or unavailable, G. columbinum , pusillum , molle , and 
rotundifolium, whose distinctions have occasioned much trouble, may be clearly understood 
by attending to the following circumstances. 
G. columbinum. Its awned calyx distinguishes it from molle and pusillum, and its notched 
petals from rotundifolium . 
—pusillum. Its awnless calyx distinguishes it from columbinum, its hairy seed-coat from 
molle , and its notched petals from rotundifolium. 
—molle. Its awnless calyx distinguishes it from columbinum, its hairless and wrinkled 
seed-coat from pusillum , and its notched petals from rotundifolium. 
—rotundifolium. Its entire petals and dotted (or, according to Smith, peculiarly reti¬ 
culated, E.) seeds, distinguish it from the other three. 
(Consult also an ingenions paper in Gent. Mag. p. 487 ; 1797. E.) 
G. Robertia'num. Leafits by fives or by threes, lobes wing-cleft: 
calyx decangular: (capsules rugose. E.) 
Curt .— Wale. — Blackw. 480 — (E. Bot. 1486. E.) — Louie, i. 152. 1— FI. 
Dan. 694 — Dod. 62 — Lob. Obs. 375. 1, and Ic. i. 657. 2 — Ger. Em. 939, 
and 945. 5 — Park. 710. 8 — H. Ox. v. 15. 11— Pet. 65. 5 — Fuchs. 206— 
Trag. 108 —J. B. iii. 480 —Matth. 858. 
Plant strong scented, beset with pellucid hairs, but becoming smoother as 
it grows older. Upper leaves divided into three parts, the lowermost 
into five; leafits united at the base, wing-cleft; segments terminated 
by little sharp thorns. Calyx awned, the angles more evident as the 
seeds ripen. Petals , claws long, border a little ragged, with three faint white 
lines. Filaments not very evidently united. Anthers red. Pollen yellow. 
Style hairy. Summits fine crimson. Stems branched, spreading, (about 
a foot long; towards autumn, as also other parts, tinged with red. Blos¬ 
som red, sometimes white. 
(Salisbury noticed the two curious bundles of silvery threads arising from 
the upper part of each side the cleft of the corcule, and attached at the 
opposite extremity to the stigma; so that when, as in G. lucidum,, the 
beak by its elastic force flings the corcule from its receptacle, it still 
hangs suspended by these two appendages, which are not much unlike 
the coma attached to the seeds of Asclepiadeoe. Hook. E.) 
Var. 2. FI alb. White-flowered. 
