. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Kom Honey. POLLEN OF CBANESBILL, fruit, which simulates the bill of a crane. Geranium, having the same meaning, is derived from the Greek word for a crane, " ; Of the species most common we have the Purple Cranesbill, Ragged Robin, Herb Robert, Dovesfoot Cranesbill, the Meadow Cranesbill, and others. Anyone taking a note of all the species found in one season will be surprised at their number. In our covinty they are mostly found in hedge-rows and on railway and other banks, but in Derbyshire and Lancashire they may be fo
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Kom Honey. POLLEN OF CBANESBILL, fruit, which simulates the bill of a crane. Geranium, having the same meaning, is derived from the Greek word for a crane, " ; Of the species most common we have the Purple Cranesbill, Ragged Robin, Herb Robert, Dovesfoot Cranesbill, the Meadow Cranesbill, and others. Anyone taking a note of all the species found in one season will be surprised at their number. In our covinty they are mostly found in hedge-rows and on railway and other banks, but in Derbyshire and Lancashire they may be found growing on old stone walls and ruins. One species—G. liohertianum, or Herb Robert—Avill be found almost everywhere, and lends a charm to the old grey stone walls and ruins with its cheery little blossoms and its foliage of varied hues. The other species are also very attractive. Their large masses of foliage, varying from dark green to crimson, crowned bv a mass of light or dark pink or bluish-pnrple flowers, give one more joy in beholding them than those so delicately reared in our greenhouses, which, of course, belong to the same genus. Nearly all the species agree in one con- spicuous point, viz., the main flower stem breaks out at its summit into lesser stalks, each being^snrmounted by a flower. The stems are forked with jointed swellings at the articulation and very brittle. The leaves of some species are round and divided into fine lobes, whilst in others they are deeply cut and serrated. The flowers "are arranged in loose heads of blossom. These plants are included in our list because they are in great abundance in^ every county and are evidently well visited by bees; for it is rarely we get a sample of honey from mixed sources which does n^t contain pollen grains from some of this family, which are alike m form and colour but vary slightly in size. The pollen grain, like that of the Crocus and Mallow, is a large one; all three being about the same size. In
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