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4. Geranium furcatum Hanks, N. Amer. Fl. 25: 16. 1907. 

 Type locality: Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Arizona. 

 Range : Mountains of New Mexico and Arizona. 



New Mexico: Water Canyon; Hop Canyon; Cebolla; Tunitcha Mountains. Transi- 

 tion Zone. 



5. Geranium atropurpureum Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 28: 195. 1898. 

 Geranium gracile Engelm. in A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 27. 1849, not 



Ledeb. 1837. 



Type locality: Along Santa Fe Creek, New Mexico. Type collected by Heller 

 (no. 3723). 



Range: Colorado to northern Mexico. 



New Mexico: Higher mountains throughout the State. Moist slopes, Transition 

 to the Hudsonian Zone. 



6. Geranium fremontii Torr.; A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 26. 1849. 

 Type locality: Bottom lands of the Mora River, New Mexico. Type collected by 



Fendler (no. 90). 

 Range: Colorado and Utah to New Mexico and Arizona. 

 New Mexico: Johnsons Mesa; Coolidge; Sierra Grande. 



7. Geranium eremophilum Woot. & Standi. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: 142. 1913. 

 Type locality: San Luis Mountains, New Mexico. Type collected by E. A. 



Mearns (no. 2142). 

 Range: Mountains of southwestern New Mexico. 

 New Mexico: San Luis Mountains; Organ Mountains. 



2. ERODIUM L'Her. 



Very similar to Geranium in general appearance, but stamens only 5 and the carpel 

 tails long-bearded and becoming spirally twisted; distal peduncles appearing terminal, 

 but really axillary. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Leaf blades pinnately divided; petals small, 6 mm. long or less, pale 



purplish 1. E. cicutarium . 



Leaf blades merely lobed; petals large, 10 mm. long or more, purple. 2. E. tcxanum. 



1. Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Her.; Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 414. 1789. 



Alfileria. Filaree. 



Geranium cicutarium L. Sp. PI. 680. 1753. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Europae sterilibus cultis." 



New Mexico: Introduced into nearly all parte of the State. 



An inconspicuous prostrate plant, widely introduced into North America. In cer- 

 tain parte of the Southwest it ha? been found to be a valuable forage plant but it has 

 never been utilized in New Mexico. Nowhere is it very abundant. 



2. Erodium texanum A. Gray, Gen. Fl. Amer. 2: 130. pi. 151. 1849. 

 Type locality: Texas. 



Range: Texas to California. 



New Mexico: Tortugas Mountain; Trea Hennanas; near Roswell; Organ Moun- 

 tains. Dry plains and hills, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 



72. LINACEAE. Flax Family. 



Annual or perennial berbs, with mostly low slender stems; leaves simple, alien 

 scattered or crowded; stipules wanting or mere glands; flowers complete and regular, 

 mostly axillary to bracts similar to the leaves but smaller; calj \ persistenl ; petals 



