Stamens 10 (sometimes only 5 in n. 3), all with perfect anthers, the 5 longer with glands at their base (alternate with the petals). Styles smooth inside in fruit when they separate from the axis.--Stems forking. Peduncles 1--3-flowered. (An old Greek name from γέρανος, _a crane_, the long fruit bearing beak thought to resemble the bill of that bird.) [*] _Rootstock perennial._ 1. G. maculàtum, L. (WILD CRANESBILL.) Stem erect, hairy; leaves about 5-parted, the wedge-shaped divisions lobed and cut at the end, sepals slender-pointed, petals entire, light purple, bearded on the claw (½´ long).--Open woods and fields. April--July.--Leaves somewhat blotched with whitish as they grow old. [*][*] _Root biennial or annual; flowers small._ [+] _Leaves ternately much dissected, heavy-scented._ 2. G. Robertiànum, L. (HERB ROBERT.) Sparsely hairy, diffuse, strong-scented, leaves 3-divided or pedately 5-divided, the divisions twice pinnatifid; sepals awned, shorter than the (red-purple) petals; carpels wrinkled; seeds smooth.--Moist woods and shaded ravines; N. Eng. to Mo., and northward. June--Oct. (Eu.) [+][+] _Leaves palmately lobed or dissected._ 3. G. Caroliniànum, L. Stems at first erect, diffusely branched from the base, hairy; leaves about 5-parted, the divisions cleft and cut into numerous oblong-linear lobes; peduncles and pedicels short; _sepals awn-pointed_, as long as the emarginate (pale rose-colored) petals; carpels hairy; _seeds ovoid-oblong, very minutely reticulated._--Barren soil and waste places; common. May--Aug.--Depauperate forms, except by the seeds, are hardly distinguishable from G. DISSÉCTUM, L. More slender and spreading, with narrower lobes to the crowded leaves, and smaller red-purple petals notched at the end; _seeds short-ovoid or globular, finely and deeply pitted._--Waste grounds, rare. (Nat. from Eu.) G. ROTUNDIFÒLIUM, L. With the habit of the next but the fruit and seed of the last; villous with long white hairs tipped with purple glands, leaves short-lobed.--Rare. (Nat. from Eu.) G. PUSÍLLUM, L. Stems procumbent, slender, minutely pubescent; _leaves rounded kidney-form_, 5--7-parted, the divisions wedge-shaped, mostly 3-lobed, _sepals awnless_, about as long as the (purplish) petals; stamens 5; fruit pubescent; _seeds smooth._--Waste places, Mass. to Penn.; rare. (Nat. from Eu.) G. MÓLLE, L. Like the last; more pubescent; flowers dark purple; stamens 10; carpels transversely wrinkled, seed slightly striate.--Occasionally spontaneous. (Nat. from Eu.) G. COLUMBÌNUM. (LONG-STALKED C.) Minutely hairy, with very slender decumbent stems; leaves 5--7-parted and cut into narrow linear lobes; _peduncles and pedicels filiform and elongate_; sepals awned, about equalling the purple petals, enlarging after flowering; _carpels glabrous_; seeds nearly as in G. dissectum.--Rarely introduced; Penn. and southward. June, July. (Nat. from Eu.)