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G E R A N I UM columbinum.
Long-Jlalked Cranejbill.
M ONAD E L P HI A Decandria.
Gen. Char. Style one. Cor. of 3 petals, regular.
NeStary 5 glands at the bafe of the longer fta-
mina. Fruit beaked, feparating into 5 cafes,
each tipped with a long fimple naked awn.
Spec. Char. Stalks two-flowered, longer than the
leaves; which are five-cleft and divided into many
acute fegments. Seed-cafes fmooth. Calyx
awned.
Syn. Geranium columbinum. Linn. Sp. PI. gc,6.
Hudf. FI. yin. 304. IVith. Bot. Arr. 731. Sibth.
Oxon. 214.
G. columbinum difleftis foliis, pediculis florum
longiffimis. Rail Syn. 359.
C j rA T H E R E D wild near Bird-brook, Eflex, by Thomas
Walford Efq. This is generally fuppofed to be a rare fpecies,
but we have obferved it in various parts of Norfolk and Yorkshire,
as well as about Briftol, always in a gravelly or calcareous
foil, and never in any great quantity at once. It is an
annual, flowering in June and July.
The whole herb is flsnder, moftly procumbent, clothed with
fmall rigid clofe-prefied hairs, thofe on the item and ftalks
pointing downwards, the reft upwards. Segments of the
leaves linear. The long.flower-ftalks diftinguilh this fpecies,
and the calyx is five-angled, and tipped with very evident awns.
Flowers of a delicate pale purple. Anther« blue. Cafes of
the feeds fmooth, flightly keeled. Seed covered with minute
punctures, as in G. rotundifolium.
In this genus the direction of the pubefcence will be found
ufeful in difcriminating fome fpecies, as well as the feeds and
their covers.