WOOTON AND STANDLEY—FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 881 
4. Geranium furcatum Hanks, N. Amer. Fl. 25: 16. 1907. 
Type Locauity: Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Arizona, 
Rance: Mountains of New Mexico and Arizona. 
New Mexico: Water Canyon; Hop Canyon; Cebolla; Tunitcha Mountains. Transi- 
tion Zone. 
5. Geranium atropurpureum Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 28: 195. 1898. 
Geranium gracile Engelm. in A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 27. 1849, not 
Ledeb. 1837. 
Tyrre tocatity: Along Santa Fe Creek, New Mexico. Type collected by Heller 
(no. 3723). 
RancE: Colorado to northern Mexico. 
New Mexico: Higher mountains throughout the State. Moist slopes, Transition 
to the Hudsonian Zone. 
6. Geranium fremontii Torr.; A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 26. 1849. 
TypE LocALITy: Bottom lands of the Mora River, New Mexico. Type collected by 
Fendler (no. 90). 
RancGE: Colorado and Utah to New Mexico and Arizona. 
New Mexico: Johnsons Mesa; Coolidge; Sierra Grande. 
7. Geranium eremophilum Woot. & Stand. Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. 16: 142. 1913. 
Type LocaLiry: San Luis Mountains, New Mexico. Type collected by E. A. 
Mearns (no. 2142). 
Rance: Mountains of southwestern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: San Luis Mountains; Organ Mountains. 
2. ERODIUM L’Her. 
Very similar to Geranium in general appearance, but stamens only 5 and the carpel 
tails long-bearded and becoming spirally twisted; distal peduncles appearing terminal, 
but really axillary. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Leaf blades pinnately divided; petals small, 6 mm. long or less, pale 
purplish..........--- 2-2-2. eee eee ee ee eee ee eee eee eee eee ee 1. E. cicutarium, 
Leaf blades merely lobed; petals large, 10 mm, long or more, purple. 2. EL. texanum. 
1. Erodium cicutarium (L.) L’Her.; Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 414. 1789. 
ALFILERIA. FILAREE. 
Geranium cicutarium L. Sp. Pl. 680. 1753. 
Typr Locauity: ‘‘Habitat in Europae sterilibus cultis.”’ 
New Mexico: Introduced into nearly all parts of the State. 
An inconspicuous prostrate plant, widely introduced into North America. In cer- 
tain parts of the Southwest it has been found to be a valuable forage plant but it has 
never been utilized in New Mexico. Nowhere is it very abundant. 
2. Erodium texanum A. Gray, Gen. Fl. Amer. 2: 130. pl. 151, 1849. 
TypE LOCALITY: Texas. 
Rance: Texas to California. 
New Mexico: Tortugas Mountain; Tres Hermanas; near Roswell; Organ Moun- 
tains. Dry plains and hills, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 
72. LINACEAE. Flax Family. 
Annual or perennial herbs, with mostly low slender stems; leaves simple, alternate, 
scattered or crowded; stipules wanting or mere glands; flowers complete and regular, 
mostly axillary to bracts similar to the leaves but smaller; calyx persistent; petals 
