104 GEKANIACE^. (GERANIUM FAMILY.) 



natifid ; sepals awned, shorter than the (red-purple) petals ; carpels .vriukled , 

 seeds smooth. — Moist woods and shaded ravines ; N. Eng. to Mo., and north- 

 ward. June - Oct. (Eu.) 



•1- -)- Leaves palmately lobed or dissected. 



3. G. Carolinianum, L. Stems at first erect, diffusely branched from 

 the base, hairy ; leaves about 5-parted, the divisions cleft and cut into numerous 

 oblong-linear lobes; peduncles and pedicels short; sepals awn-pointed, as long 

 as the emarginate (pale rose-colored) petals ; carpels hairy ; seeds ovoid-oUong . 

 verij minutelij reticulated. — Barren soil and waste places; common. May- 

 Aug. — Depauperate forms, except by the seeds, are hardly distinguishable 

 from 



G. DissECTUM, L. More slender and spreading, with narrower lobes to 

 the crowded leaves, and smaller red-purple petals notched at the end ; seeds 

 short-ovoid or globular, finely and deeph/ pitted. — Waste grounds, rare. (Nat. 

 from Eu.) 



G. rotundif6lium, L. With the habit of the next but the fruit and seed 

 of the last; villous with long Avhite hairs tipped with purple glands; leaves 

 short-lobed. — Eare. (Nat. from Eu.) 



G. PUSiLLUM, L. Stems procumbent, slender, minutely pubescent ; leaves 

 rounded kidneij-form, 5 - 7-parted, the divisions wedge-shaped, mostly 3-lobed , 

 sepals aimless, about as long as the (purplish) petals; stamens 5 ; fruit pubes- 

 cent; seeds smooth. — Waste places, Mass. to Penn. ; rare. (Nat. from Eu.) 



G. MOLLE, L. Like the last ; more pubescent ; flowers dark purple ; sta- 

 mens 10; carpels transversely wrinkled; seed slightly striate. — Occasionally 

 ^spontaneous. (Nat. from Eu.) 



G. coLUMBixuM. (LoxG-STALKED C.) Minutely hairy, with very slender 

 decumbent stems; leaves 5 -7-parted and cut into narrow linear lohes; j)e- 

 d uncles and pedicels fill form and elongated ; sepals awued, about equalling the 

 purple petals, enlarging after flowering; carpels glabrous,' seeds nearly as in 

 G. dissectum. — Rarely introduced ; Penn. and southward, June, July. (Nat. 

 from Eu.) 



G. SiBfRicuM, L. Slender, repeatedly forked, short-villous ; leaves 3-cleft 

 with serrate divisions; flowers dull-white, mostly solitary ; sepals awned ; seeds 

 minutely reticulate. — Rare. (Nat. from Eu.) 



2. ERODIUM, L'Her. Storksbill, 



The 5 shorter stamens sterile or wanting. Styles in fruit twisting spirally, 

 bearded inside. Otherwise as Geranium. (Name from ipwdios, a heron.) 



E. cicutArium, L'Her. Annual, hairy; stems low, spreading; stipules 

 acute; leaves pinnate, the leaflets sessile, 1 - 2-pinnatifid ; peduncles several- 

 flowered. — N. Y., Penn., etc. ; scarce. (Adv. from Eu.) 



3. FLGERKEA, Willd. False Mermaid. 



Sepals 3. Petals 3, shorter than the calyx, oblong. Stamens 6. Ovaries 3, 

 opposite the sepals, united only at the base ; the style rising in the centre ; 

 stigmas 3. Fruit of 3 (or 1-2) roughish fleshy achenes. Seed anatropous, 

 erect, filled by the large embryo with its hemispherical fleshy cotyledons. — 

 A small and inconspicuous annual, with minute solitary flowers on axillary 

 peduncles. (Named after Floerke, a German botanist.) 



1. F. proserpinacoides, Willd. Leaflets 3 - 5, lanceolate, sometimes 

 2 -3-cleft. — Marshes and river-banks, W. New Eng. to Penn., Ky , Wise, 

 and westward. April - June. Taste slightly pungent. 



