Class XVI. Order V. 25? 



As the 1 leaves grow old, they are usually marked with pale spots 

 about the sinuses. Peduncles long, hairy, supporting about two 

 flowers. Calyx five leaved, those edges, which are outermost 

 in the bud, hairy. Petals rounded, purple. Fruit ending in a 

 long beak, containing five awns, which spring out and scatter 

 the seeds when ripe. The root is perennial, very astringent, 

 and useful for its medicinal properties. May, June. Perennial. 



GERANIUM ROBERTIANUM. _L. V Herb Robertt 



Peduncles two flowered ; leaves somewhat pedate, 

 pinnatifid, five, angled ; calyx ten angled, capsules rug- 

 ged. Sm. 



A branching plant, much smaller in its flowers and leaves thart 

 the preceding. Stem spreading, fragile, commonly of a reddish 

 cast. Leaves somewhat hairy, petioled, ternate or quinate, the 

 divi>ions mostly pinnatifid. Peduncles long, somewhat hairy, 

 with two terminal flowers. Calyx hairy. Petals rounded^ pale 

 purple. The whole plant has a peculiar, strong smell. Road 

 sides, Maiden. Flowering most of the summer and autumn. 

 Annual. 

 GERANIUM DISSECTUM. Willd. Wood Geranium. 



Diffuse, pubescent, leaves opposite, five parted, the 

 lobes three cleft and cut ; peduncles two flowered, 

 elongated ; petals emarginate, as long as the awned 

 caylx ; beak hairy. 



A delicate plant with small flowers. Stem a foot high, pubes^ 

 cent. Leaves cut almost to the base into about five segments, 

 these again subdivided and variously cleft. Petioles hairy. Pe- 

 duncles axillaryj forked, with four minute linear bractes at the 

 bifurcation. Calyx hairy, awned. Petals short, pale red. Beak 

 hairy, a part of the hairs glandular. On Medlbrd hills, near the 

 Andover turnpike. ; June, July. Annual. 



278. OXALIS. 



OXALIS ACETOCELLA. L. Common Wood SorreL 



Stemless ; scape one flowered, longer than the 

 leaves ; leaves ternate, broad-obeordate with rounded 

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