G E R A N I UM phseum.
Dujky Cranejbill.'
M O N A D E L P H I A Decandria.
Gen. Char. Style one. Cor. o f five petals, regular.
NeBary five glands at the bafe o f the longer fta-
mina. Fruit beaked, feparating into five arilli,
each tipped with a long Ample naked awn.
S p e c . C h a r . Stalks two-flowered, in a leafy panicle.
Stem eredt. Calyx flightly pointed. Petals
waved. Arillus keeled, hairy below, rugged
above.
Syn. Geranium phaeum. Linn. Sp. PI. 953. HudJ.
FI. An. 301. Relh. Cant. Suppl. 2. 14.
G. montanum fufcum. Rati Syn. 361.
W E received this plant from the Rev. Mr. Abbot of Bedford,
who found it at Everholt. Mr. Sims, druggift, of- Norwich,
fhewed Dr. Smith fpecimens gathered in Lancafhire, and
Mr. Relhan mentions it as a native of Cambridgefhire ; but it
is perhaps the rareft Britifh Geranium, It inhabits dry pastures.
and thickets, chiefly in mountainous countries, flowering
early in fummer, and is often cultivated in gardens.
Root perennial, thick and ftrong. Stem ere£t, hairy, forked
and terminating in a panicle of numerous flowers, on fpreading
two-flowered {talks, with two pair of fmall brown chaffy brac-
tese at their bifurcation. Calyx-leaves elliptical, tipped with a
fmall point, hairy. Petals dark chocolate-coloured, wavy, with
a white claw. Stamina all fertile. Seed-cafes ftrongly keeled,
clothed in the lower part with thick upright hairs ; at the fum-
mit naked, and wrinkled tranfverfely. The leaves are many-lobed
and crenate, downy, with prominent interbranching veins ;
the radical ones on longifh foot-ftalks, the reft folitarily placed
oppolite to each flower-ftalk, and gradually leflening towards
the upper part of the ftem. Stipulae much like the bradlese,
though fomewhat larger.
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