to G. Carolimmmm of North America, with which it entirely agrees, except th a t the seeds are more deeply puncta
te ; this trifling character alone is said to distinguish G. Oarolimanum from the European G. ¿fmedum. In
Europe, G. dissedam has small flowers, and petals as short as the sepals ; this is a variable character m the New
Zealand plant, and also in the North American. The European has also an annual root, according to descriptions ;
but as various annuals and biennials of Europe become perennials in the more uniform climates of New Zealand
and Tasmama, much stress cannot be laid upon that point. My 6 . Patagowkum (Fl. Antarct. vol. ii. p. 252) is
probably the same plant, and equally a variety of G. Carolmiamm, which is found throughout Mexico aud Peru.
2. Geranium m o lk , L .; laxe p atentim pilosum, caulibus laxis procumbentibus diffusis, foliis orbiculatis
v. reniformibus 5- 7 -lobatis, lobis incisis obtusis, pedunculis 2-floris, petaHs emarginatis calyce æquUongis
V . longioribus, capsulis transverse rugosis, seminibus lævibus. E n g l. B o t. i. 778.
H a b . N o rth e rn au d Middle Islan d s, Colenso and l y a l l .
UsnaUy a smaller and weaker-stemmed plant than the former, with more rounded, less deeply cut. and softly
pilose leaves. Iloxvers usually paler. Its best characters are the wrinkled capsule and smooth seeds. The roots
appear annual.—Neither Mr. Colenso nor Dr. LyaU aUude to this common European plant as having been introduced.
I have it from Tasmania also, collected by Mr, Gunn, who suspects that it is not wild in that coimtry.
3. Geranium potentilloides, H e rit.; caule decumbente ramoso superne petiolis pedunculisque appresse
rarius patentim retro rsum pilosis canisque, foliis 5 -7 -lo b a tis partitisve, segmentis cuneatis 3-fldis acutis, pe-
dunculis unifloris 2-bracteolatis, petaUs calyce æ qmlongis v. longioribus pallidis, capsulis parce pilosis lævibus
obscure carinatis, seminibus minute punctulatis. DC. Prodr. v. \ . p . 3 6 9 . G. pallidiflorum. B a n k s et Sol.
M S S . et Ic . G. retrorsum, A . Cunn. Prodr. A n DC. ?
T a r. /3. microphjllum ; glabratum, acaule v. caulibus abbreviatis, foliis parvis. G. micropbyllum, P I.
Antarct. v . \ . p . %. t .V .
Rax. y . debile; caulibus filiformibus glabratis petiolis pedunculisque superne p aten tim pilosis, foliis
ad medium lobatis.
H a b . N o rth e rn , Middle, an d Sou th ern I s la n d s ; chiefly in mountainous situations. B a n k s and
Solander, Colenso, etc. T a r. /3. Tops of mountains. T a r. y . E a s t coast, Colenso; Akaroa, Baoul.
A weak straggUng plant, much smaller in all its parts than either of the former, more or less clothed with
silky appressed retrorse hairs, especially at the apex of the peduncles and petioles. Leaves inch broad, more
or less deeply cut and lobed. Peiundes single, rarely two-flowered, with two lanceolate scarious bracteæ about the
middle. Flowers veiy variable in size, always pale, i to nearly 1 inch across. Cupsules obscurely ribbed or keeled
down the back, pflose. Seeds minutely dotted.—The var. g has sometimes no stems, both leaves and peduncles
arising from a thick root ; it is a mountain plant, originally found in Lord Auckland’s Group. Tar, y is a very
slender straggling form, probably from shaded places, with patent hairs on the petioles and peduncles; its leaves
are membranous and less deeply cut. This is a common Tasmanian species, and resembles very closely some
Andes plants.
4 . Geranium Irevieaule, H o o k .; radice valida multicipite, caulibus abbreviatis pedunculis petiolisque
pilosis pilis longis retrorsum appressis patulisve rarius glabratis, foliis 5 -7 -p a rtitis lobatisve, lobis cuneatis
trifidis v. incisis, lobulis obtusis v. acutis, pedunculis oppositifoliis validis 1 -floris infra florem dense
sericeo-barbatis basin versus 2-bracteolatis, calycibus viUosis, petaUs pallidis, capsulis pilosis lævibus, seminibus
lævibus V . minutissime punctatis. Rooh. in Journal o f Bo ta n y, v. %. p . 252.
H a b . Noi-tUern Islan d ; Ruahine Mountains, Colenso. Middle Islan d ; Chalky Bay, Jjyall.
Root stout, fusiform, woody, giving off many short branches 3 -6 inches long, which, as weU as the petioles
and peduncles, are clothed ivith silky, white, retrorse or patent hairs ; the latter sometimes evanescent in old plants.
Geraniacea.]
Leaves as in Í?. potentilloides, but rather larger. Redímeles shorter, stout, bearded below the flower with silky
patent hairs. Calyx also silky and haiiy. Retals white. Fruit with a stout hairy beak. Capsules h a iry ; seeds
quite smooth and even, or minutely punctulate under a high power.—I retain this species mainly on account of its
perfectly even or scarcely dotted seeds; for in other respects it resembles Q. potentilloides, var. miorophyllum, far
too closely in all characters, except greater size and copious silky hairs on the peduncle, etc. The woody root and
short stems are both attributable to its place of growth. I t is also a native of the mountains of Tasmania.
Gen. I I . P E L A R G O N IUM , Herit.
Sepala 5, supremo in calcar pedúnculo adna tum producto. P e ía la 4 - 5 , irregularia v. subregularia.
Filamenta 4 - 7 fertilia, reliqua sterilia. Ro stra in tro rsum barbata.
A very large and almost exclusively Cape genus, of which one (and perhaps two) species, also natives of
that countrv, inhabit Australia and New Zealand. I t closely resembles a Geranium in habit and appearance, differing
in the in-egular flowers, in having a spur which is prolonged from one sepal down the pedicel, and in the
stamens, of which five are reduced to scales or mere teeth. (Name from TreXapyo?, a stork, because of the beaked
carpels.)
1. Pelargonium clandestinum; pilosum v. pubescens, caule erecto simplici v. ramoso, foliis longe petiolatis
rotunda tis profunde cordatis 3 -5 -lo b is crenato-dentatis, pedunculis elongatis fructiferis erectis v. p a tentibus,
bracteolis ovatis acuminatis, pediceUis sepalis longioribus, sepalis pubescentibus pilisque raris
albidis subhispidis, calcare brevi v. oblitera te, petalis calyce vix longioribus, capsulis pilosis, seminibus minutissime
punctato-striatis. H e r it. Geran. hied. A . Cunn. Frock. P . acugnatum, D u P e tit Thouars?
DC. Prod)'. Geranium amcenum. Ba n k s et Sol. M S S . et Ic.
PIab. N o rth ern and Middle I s la n d s ; abundant, especially nea r th e sea. FL J an u a ry and F ebruary.
N a t. name, “ Kopata,” Middle Is lan d , L ya ll.
An erect, herbaceous, more or less pilose, Geranium-like plant, very variable in size, 4 inches to 3 feet high.
Leaves on slender petioles, 3 -6 inches long, rounded or ovate, blunt, deeply two-lobed or cordate at the base, three-
to five-lobed, coarsely or finely crenate or dentate. Peduncles axiUaiy, longer than the leaves, from whose axils they
spring, pubescent. Flowers small, ten to twelve to g e th er; umbels on short pedicels, surrounded at the base by a
whorl of bracleolm; pedicels 3 -6 lines long, pubescent, and, as well as the unequal ovate acuminate sepals, covered
with scattered short white hairs. Spur short, gibbous, or evanescent. Petals unequal, l | - 3 lines long, longer than
the sepals, narrow, spathulate, notched, deep red. Stamens about five fertile, the rest more or less coalescing into a
few white membranous scales. FVwii very liairy, the beak recurved (not twisted), lined along the inner surface
with beautiful long silky hairs. Seeds very minutely dotted.—The natives apply a lotion of this plant bruised for
burns and scalds. This is also a native of Tasmania, where a small state of it is found, apparently passing into the
P. australe. The Tiistan d’Acunha plant referred to this by De Candolle I have never seen; but as 1 have examined
a specimen nndistinguishable from the New Zealand one from the Cape of Good Hope (Drege, 7466), there
would appear no reason to doubt their identity. Of the said Cape plant I have but one specimen, not in fru it; it
is quite unlike any other species from that country, and if identical with this, it presents a wonderful fact in
distribution, for except one European, one St. Helena, and one Abyssinian species, this large genus is, I believe,
quite confined to South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. The P. australe of Australia and Tasmama has also
a Cape of Good Hope representative, and a perhaps identical congener.