Flora Scotica, or A description of Scottish plants : arranged both according to the artificial and natural methods ; in two parts / by William Jackson Hooker.

  • William Jackson Hooker
Date:
1821
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Credit: Flora Scotica, or A description of Scottish plants : arranged both according to the artificial and natural methods ; in two parts / by William Jackson Hooker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    2. GERANIUM. Monogynoxis. Cal. of 5 leaves. Cor. of 5 regular petals. Nec- tariferous glands 5. Stamens 10. Fruit beaked, separating into 5 monospermous capsules, each tipped with a long, naked, simple awn (neither spiral nor bearded). * Peduncles \-Jlowered. 1. G. sanguineum, peduncles 1-flowered, leaves nearly orbicular in 5—7 deep lobes each of which is trifid. p. 206.—Rocks. ** Peduncles 2-flowered. Roots perennial. 2. G. Phceum, peduncles 2-flovvered opposite the leaves, cal. slightly awned, petals waved, capsules, keeled hairy below wrinkled above, stem erect, p. 206.—Woods. 3. G. sylvaticum, peduncles 2-flowered, leaves subpeltate with 5 or 7 deep and acute lobes which are cut and serrated, stem erect corymbose, petals slightly notched, capsules keeled hairy (not wrinkled), p. 206.—Thickets. 4. G. pralense, peduncles 2-flowered, leaves 5>partite, lobes multipartite all the segments acute, capsules hairy smooth (not wrinkled), p. 206.— Pastures. 5. G. pyrenaicum, peduncles 2--flowered, leaves reniform 5—7- lobed, lobes oblong obtuse trifid and toothed at the extremity, stem erect branched, petals deeply notched twice as long as the cal. p. 206.—Waste places. *** Peduncles 2-flowered. Root annual. 6. G. lucidum, peduncles 2-flowered, leaves roundish 5-lobed, lobes trifid and notched obtuse, calyces pyramidal angular den- tato-tuberculate, capsules wrinkled, p. 207.—Rocks and walls. 7. G. robertianum, peduncles 2-flowered, leaves ternate or qui- nate, leaflets pinnatifid, segments mucronate, cal. angular hairy, capsules wrinkled, p. 207.—Woods. 8. G. molle, peduncles 2-flowered, leaves rounded or reniform lobed and cut downy, petals notched scarcely longer than the cal., capsules transversely wrinkled, seeds smooth, p. 207.— Waste places. 9. G. rotundifolium, peduncles 2-flowered, leaves rounded or reniform lobed and cut downy, petals entire the length of the cal., capsules smooth (not wrinkled) hairy, seeds punctate. p. 207.—Waste places. 10. G. pusillum, peduncles 2-flowered, flowers pentandrous, petals notched, leaves rounded or reniform in 5—7 deep lobes, lobes trifid, capsules smooth carinated downy with erect appres- sed hairs, seeds smooth, p. 207.—Waste grounds. 11. G. dissectum, peduncles 2-flowered, petals notched rather longer than the much awned cal., leaves 5-partite, lobes trifid [s 2]