GERANIUM FAMILY 



2966 



2963. Geranium sibiricum 



2964. Geranium moUe 



2967 



2965. Geranium pusillum 



2966. Geranium dissectum 



2968 



2967. Geranium carolinianum 



2968. Geranium columbinum 



7. Geranium Bicknellii var. longipes (S. Wats.) Fernald. Bicknell's Geranium. 



Fig. 2969. 



Geranium carolinianum var. longipes S. Wats. Bot. King Expl. 50. 1871. 

 Geranium nemorale Suksd. Deutsch. Bot. Monatss. 16: 222. 1898. 

 Geranium longipes Goodding, Bot. Gaz. 37: 56. 1904. 

 Geranium Bicknellii var. longipes Fernald, Rhodora 37: 297. 1935. 



Annual, the stems simple below and erect, or branched and more or less spreading, pubescent 

 with spreading hairs, often glandular above, the lower node retrorsely pubescent. Leaves 2-7 cm. 

 broad, somewhat angulate and 5-sided or the lowest orbicular in outline, the main divisions in- 

 cised or cleft into lanceolate or oblong segments ; petioles, peduncles and pedicels glandular- 

 pubescent ; sepals awn-tipped, 7-8 mm. long ; petals rose-purple, about equaling the sepals ; fruit- 

 ing style-beak 16-22 mm. long, glandular-hirsute. 



Sandy soils in clearings and burnt-over lands, mainly Arid Transition Zone; British Columbia to Wash- 

 ington, Oregon and northern California, east to Nova Scotia and New York. Type locality: southeastern New 

 York. May-Aug. 



Geranium pyrenaicum Burm. f. Sp. Geran. 27. 1759. Perennial with a short scaly caudex, the stems 

 simple below, sometimes tufted, retrorsely hirsute. Leaves orbicular in outline, 4-9 cm. broad, the 5-7 mam 

 divisions 3-5-lobed; peduncles and pedicels glandular-puberulent; sepals awnless, S-6 ram. long, ciliate; petals 

 purple, about twice as long as the sepals, obcordate; fruiting style-beak 12-15 mm. long, glandular-pubescent; 

 seeds granular. Native of Europe, locally naturalized in California. 



8. Geranium retrorsum L'Her. New Zealand Geranium. Fig. 2970. 



Geranium pilosum Forst. f. ex DC. Prod. 1: 642. 1824. Not Cav. 1788. 



Geranium retrorsum L'Her. ex DC. Prod. 1 : 644. 1824. 



Geranium pilosum var. retrorsum Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 589. 192S. 



Perennial with a large taproot and branched caudex, the stems branched, 1-6 dm. long, more 



