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G É R A N I UM rotundifolium*
Doves-foot Granejbill.
<9 fy.
MO N J D E L P H I J Decandria.
Gen. Char. Style one* Cor. of 5 petals, regular. Neff a r y
5 glands at the bafe of the longer ftamina. Fruit
beaked, feparating into 5 arilli, each tipped with
a long Ample naked awn.
Spec. Char. Stalks two-flowered. Petals entire, the
length of the calyx. Stem fpreading* Leaves kidney
lhaped, cut. Arillus even, hairy. Seeds reticulated.
Syn. Geranium rotundifolium. Linn. S p . PI. 9 5 7 .
Hudf. FI. An. 303. With. Bot. Arr. 732.
G. columbinum majus, flore minore cæruleo.
Rail Syn. 358.
From tinder a wall near Hackney, gathered by Mr. E. For-
fter iun. who has alfo found it about Iflington, and at Church
Bramton in Northamptonfhire. This is one of the leaft general
of our Cranefbills, though abundant in quantity where it does
S This fpecies is annual, and flowers in June and July. The
Items are much branched, draggling, but fcarcely proftrate.
Every part of the herb is clothed with a velvet-like dowmnels,
very foft to the touch. The leaves are more round than in fome
other common fpecies *, their colour paler. It is, however,
needlefs to recur to the vague marks of diftmftion given by all
authors, as the punctated or reticulated feeds diftmguifh this
from all its allied fpecies, efpecially from the pufillum, with
-which its arillus fomewhat agrees; though even in that part
they may be diftinguifhed, the hairs on the arillus of pulillum
being clofe preffed, not fpreading. The arillus of molle differs
from both in being very rugged, and not even, in its furtace.
That of pyrenaicum is even, (harply carinated, and fcarcely pu-
befcent at all.