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G E R A N I U M fanguineum.
Bloody Cranejbill.
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MO N A B È L P H I A Decahdria.
Gen. Char. Style one. Cor. of 5 petals, regular,,
NeZiary 5 glands at the bafeof the longer (lamina.-
Fruit beaked, feparating into 5 cafes, each tipped
with a long fimple naked awn.
Si’EC. Char. Stalks fingle-flowered. Leaves round-
ifh, in 5 or 7 deeply feparated lobes, each of
which is 3-cleft.
S yn. Geranium fanguineum. Linn. Sp. PI. 93 §•
Iiudf. FI. An. 305. With. Bot. Arr. 73 4 - RAh.
Cant. 263.
G. hæmatodes. Raii Syn. 360.
F REQUENT in thickets and rocky paltures in the mountainous
counties, but rare elfewhe.re; yet it bears the fmoke
of London better than molt vegetables, if planted in a dry
gravelly or calcareous foil. It is perennial, flowering molt
part of the fummer, and making a very ornamental appearance.
Roots fomewhat woody, producing many lax fpreading
branched leafy Items, often elegantly pendant from the brow
of a rugged precipice, or feattered among Ihrubs over the
broken itony foil in which this and molt fpecies of European
Cr'anelbills delight. Thefe Items are round, jointed, a little
fwelling above and below the joints. Leaves oppofite, deeply
lobed and cut, roughifh, their margins entire. Flower-ltalks
axillary, much longer than the leaves, bearing a folitary flower,
furnilhed with a joint and two bracteie, more than half way
between their bafe and their apex. We have a variety from
Switzerland, fent by. Mr. Davall, which has 2 flowers and
4 braftese from each of thefe joints.—The calyx is tipped with
awns. Petals heart-lhaped, crimfon, veiny, turning blue in
decay. Seed-cafes nearly globofe, briftly at their fummit j.
beak downy. The Item, flower-ltalks, calyx and back of the
leaves are clothed with white flender fpreading hairs; the
upper fide and margin of the leaves with Ihort deprefled briftles.