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G E R A N I U M difle£tutn.
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. MONADEL PHI A Decandria.
G en. Char. Cal. ^-leaved. Pet. 5, regular. NeElary
5 glands. Fruit beaked, feparating into 5 capfules,
each tipped with a long recurved naked awn.
Spec. Char. Stalks two-flowered. Petals cloven.
Leaves in five deep laciniated divifions. Capfules
hairy. Seeds dotted.
Syn. Geranium diffe&um. Linn. Sp. P i. 956. Sm.
FI. Brit. 737. Hudf. 304. With. 603. Hull. 152.
Relh. 263. Sibth. 214. Abbot. 150. Curt. Lond.
fafc. 6. t. 45.
G. columbinum majus, diftedfis foliis. Raii Syn. 359.
A NATIVE of wafte ground, hedges and fallow fields, efpe-
cially on a' gravelly foil, flowering in May or June, and continuing
for a confiderable time.
Root annual. Stems branched, weak and ftraggling, clothed
with fhort hairs that point downward. Leaves on footftalks,
flightly hairy, deeply divided into five principal lobes, each of
which is (except in the uppermofl leaves) cut into three or more,
jagged or entire, narrow lobes. Flower-ftaljcs axillary, fhort.
Calyx beaked, three-nerved. Petals pale crimfon, hairy at the
bafe, notched at the fummit. Capfules fcarcely keeled, brown,
a little wrinkled, all over clothed with fpreading hairs. Seeds
elegantly dotted with minute hollows as in G. rotundifolium and
columbinum, but it is diftinguifhed from the former by its
cloven petals and differed leaves; from the latter by its fhort
flower-ftalks and hairy capfules 5 not to mention differences of
habit.
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