144 GERANIACEAE 
Famity d. GERANIACEBAEBE-—GrnANIiUM FAMILY 
Herbs, or somewhat woody plants. Leaves typieally opposite: blades 
toothed, lobed, or divided. Flowers perfect, regular or nearly so, eymose. 
Calyx of 5 persistent sepals. Corolla of 5 deciduous petals. Receptacle 
with 5 glands. Androecium of 10, or rarely of 5, stamens. Gynoecium of 
o carpels whose styles are adnate to an elongate column from which they 
separate at maturity, each carpe] 2-ovuled but with only 1 seed at maturity. 
—T welve genera and 470 species, ratives of temperate regions. 
Carpel-bodies turgid: carpel-tails (styles) glabrous within and merely recoiling at 
maturity: anthers usually 10. 1. GERANIUM. 
Carpel- bodies spindle-shaped : carpel-tails i eal pubescent within 
and spirally coiled at maturity: anther 2. ERODIUM. 
ANIUM [Tourn.] L. Annual, biennial, or perennial herbs. Leaf- 
the base.—About 190 species, widely distributed in temperate regions.— 
CRANFSBILLS. WILD-GERANIUMS. 
Plant perennial, with a stout caudex and tough fibrous roots: corolla showy. 
I. MACULATA. 
Plant annual or biennial, with a slender tap root; corolla incon- 
Spicuous. II. PUSILLA. 
I. ULATA 
Stem erect, from the axils of several basal long-petioled leaves: corolla over 2 cm. 
wide. 1. G. maculatum. 
II. PUuSILLA 
Sepals without subulate de seed smooth. 
Carpel-body wrinkled: stamens ; 2. G. molle. 
pel-body strigillose: m amens D. 8. G. pusillum. 
Sepals with subulate tips : seed reticulate or pitted. 
d: mature sepal-bodies less than 5 m lon Pa 4. G. dissectum. 
i Í lon 
Pedicels hirsute: cal partly plang le a 
carpel-body hirsu 5. G. carolinianum. 
Pedicels strigillose- “calyx glandless: carpel-body gla- 
rly so 6. G. columbinum. 
1. G. maculatum L. Stem 2-6 dm. tall, — -pubescent: leaf-blades 5-12 
em. wide, the lobes cuneate: sepals 8— - m. long, elliptie to elliptic-lanceo- 
: petals m 
— Rich ds, banks, and fields, various 
provinees, on Coa stal "Plain only ET Ga. to 
Kans., Man, and Newf.—Spr.- 
2. G. molle L. Stem and branches weakl 
leaf-blades 2-6 . wide, no y eut 
pedicles pubescent with both short and long 
hair epals orbieular-ovate: petals ro 
earpel-body ab mm g, transverse 
rin (DovE’s-Foot.) — Fields, road- 
sides, and 1 S, various provinces 
to d ao and Me.; also Wash. to B. C. 
Nat. of E — Spr. 
3. G. pusillum Burm. f. Stem and branches diffuse, glandular-villous: 
blades 1.5-5 em. wide, rather coarsely cut: pedicels pubescent with very ua 
