Geraniaceae., Geranium Family. 
Herbs with divided or lobed opposite leaves bearing membranous 
stipules, Flowers perfect, regular, 5-parted, Sepals persistent, imbricate. 
Petals 5, deciduouse Stamens 10, all bearing fertile anthers or five with 
anthers and five sterile. Pistil 1, the ovary superior, five-lobed, the 
carpels 5, adnate with their tail-like styles to a central beak-like colum 
from which they separate elastically at maturity, each with 2 ovules but 
1-seeded, 
Leaves palmately divided; tails of the carpels recurved 
« but not coiled at maturity, glabrous within /. Geranium 
© Leaves pinnately divided; tails of the carpels spirally 
2 coiled at maturity, pubescent within 2, srodium 
|. Geranium (Tourn.) L. 
Annual or perennial herbs with palmately divided leaves. Flowers 
more or less showy. Petals violaceous, rose-colored or white, Stamens 
10, rarely 5, the filaments more or less united at the base. Style-column 
beaklike, the styles glabrous within and recurved, 
O Petals 2-9 mm, long; stems from slender, often simple rootstocks 
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2 Petals 2-3 mm, long; stamens 53 seeds angers ). Ge pusillum 
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«= Petals 6-9 mm, long; stamens 10; seeds votiouletes, 
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eo bitted ; 
4 Beak of mature style-colum 3-3,.5 mm, long; 
© plants 20-30 cm. tall; annual 2. Ge carolinianun 
4 Beek of mature style-column 4,5-5 mm, long; 
plants 40-50 em, talls perennial 3 Ge Bickmellii 
© Petals 12-20 mm, long; stems caespitose on stout scaly 
+} rootstocks 
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