GERANIUM FAMILY 



ever the plant had been dedicated to a St. Robert. 

 Linnaeus regarded this Robert as a personal name and 

 gave it a Latin termination by which the plant will 

 doubtless always be known. 



The little flower is pretty, about half an inch across, 

 rose-pink, marked with darker lines. The cranes- 

 bill seed-vessel clearly marks its family affiliations, 

 and it sends its seeds away a httle more strenuously 

 than the other species of the genus. The books give 

 it to shaded woodlands, but along the shores of the 

 Great Lakes it loves to live on rocks and bask in the 

 sunshine. It is a citizen of the world and dwells in 

 three continents — America, Europe, and Asia. 



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