Geranium 



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corymbose. Pedicels with glandular hairs. Sepals tipped with a long 

 mucro (1-2 mm. 1.), 5-7 mm. 1., often even to 8 mm. 1. in fruit. Petals 

 white tinged with pink, barely as long as the .sepals. Beak of fntit 



Fig. 48. Geranium caroNnfanumL. 



A, Shoot bearing flower and fruit X : . from the central column in l>oth 



B, Fruit with valves separating elastically directions x 2. 



C, Seed x 3. 



12-18 mm. 1., pubescent, hairs generally spreading. Valves smooth, with 

 shaggy hairs, separating partly from base to apex, and partly from apex to 

 base. Seeds with finely reticulate markings. 



FAMILY XLI. OXALIDACE^]. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves compound, alternate. 

 Stipules free from the petiole, or not, or wanting. Sepals 5, 

 imbricate. Petals ~>, twisted in bud. Stamens 10, united at the 

 base ; filaments alternately unequal, 5 opposite the sepals lon-vr. 

 Ovary "t-celled ; styles f>, distinct, with terminal capitate 



