GERANIACEAE. 



191 



1. G. carolinianum. 



2. O. pusillitni. 



1. GERANIUM L. 



Herbs with stipulate, palmately lobed, cleft or divided leaves, and axillary 

 1-2-fiowered peduncles. Flowers regular, 5-merous. Sepals 5, imbricated. 

 Petals 5, hypogynous, imbricated. Stamens 10 (rarely 5), generally 5 longer 

 and 5 shorter. Ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled, beaked with the compound style. Ovules 

 2 in each cavity. Capsule elastically dehiscent, the 5 cavities 1-seeded and long 

 tailed by the persistent style-divisions which are naked on the inner side. 

 [Greek, a crane, from the long beak of the fruit.] About 190 species, widely 

 distributed in temperate regions. Type species: Geranium sylvaticum L. 



Seeds finely reticulated ; beak of fruit about V long. 

 Seeds smooth ; beak of fruit about 5" long. 



1. Geranium carolinianum L. 



CAROLINA CRANE'S-BILL. (Fig. 211.) 

 Annual, erect, generally branched, 

 stout, 6 '-15' high, loosely pubescent 

 with spreading often glandular gray 

 hairs. Leaves reniform-orbicular, 1'- 

 3' wide, deeply cleft into 5-9 oblong 

 or obovate cuneate toothed or lobed 

 segments; peduncles rather short and 

 stout; flowers in compact clusters, 

 pale pink or whitish, 4"-7" broad; 

 sepals ovate, ciliate, about equalling 

 the obovate emarginate petals ; ovary- 

 lobes hispid-pubescent ; persistent 

 filaments not longer than the carpels; 

 beak nearly 1' long; seeds finely 

 reticulated. [G. dissectum of Le- 

 froy.] 



Frequent in waste and cultivated 

 grounds. Naturalized. Native of eastern 

 North America. Flowers in spring and 

 summer. 



2. Geranium pusillum Burm. f. 



SMALL-FLOWERED CRANE'S-BILL. (Fig. 

 212.) Widely branching, slender, pu- 

 bescent or villous, 4'-16' long. Leaves 

 petioled, reniform orbicular, J'-IJ' 

 wide, deeply divided into 7-9 oblong, 

 or sometimes linear-oblong, entire or 

 3-toothed, euneate lobes; peduncles 

 short, 3"-9" long; pedicels 3"-5" 

 broad; petals notched; capsule-lobes 

 hairy, keeled, not wrinkled } beak about 

 5" long, canescent ; seeds smooth. 



Recorded as found in Bermuda by 

 Jones, Lefroy, Hemsley and H. B. Small, 

 but not recently collected, and not men- 

 tioned by Reade. Native of Europe. 

 Naturalized in the United States. 



