360 GERANIACE^. Geranium. 



purple, turning browu, seeniiugly more spreading or reflexed than in related species : beak 

 of fruit gray-pubescent : otiierwise closely resembling the last, wliich it approaches by vari- 

 ously glandular forms of the extreme Southwest, while a few specimens with the pubescence 

 of this species rather than of G. Fremontii have been collected in Colorado, Wyoming, and 

 California. — James in Long, Exped. Am. ed. ii. 3, as ccespitose ; Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 

 ii. 173; Gray, PI. Fendl. 25; Trelease, 1. c. 75. — Arizona, New Mexico, and southward. 

 (Lower Calif.) 



* * Annuals or winter-annuals without a stout caudex (except in G. pilosiun): leaves rarely 

 2 inches long, often much smaller : pedicels mostly bent in fruit except when crowded : 

 flowers small (2 to 8 lines in diameter) : petals not conspicuously villous within. 



-t— Segments of ripe ovary bearing a tuft of white hairs at the base within, the top not filif- 

 erous : leaves radiately lobed or mostly dissected. 



++ Peduncles 1-flowered • leaves 3-cleft, with serrate acute divisions. 

 G. SiBiRiccM, L. Slender, repeatedly forked, short-villous : petals dingy white with purple 

 veins : divisions of ovary puberulent and sparingly villous : seed minutely reticulate-areolate. 

 Spec. ii. 683 ; Trelease, 1. c. 76. — Established on Manhattan Island, and occasional else- 

 where, e. g., Illinois, Bebb ; California, Miss Edmonds. (lutrod. from Asia.) 



++ ++ Peduncles 2-flowered : leaves several-lobed. 



= Peduncles and pedicels long (1 to 3 inches) and slender : carpels neither villous nor 

 wrinkled : seed deeply pitted, subglobose. 



G. coLUMBfNCM, L. Very slender, spreading and prostrate, hispid with short close retrorse 

 gray hairs which on the calyx are nearly confined to the nerves ; not glandular : leaves 3- or 

 5-divided and dissected into numerous linear divisions : petals rose-purple : beak of fruit ap- 

 pressed-hispid. — Spec. ii. 682 ; Trelease, I. c. — Pennsylvania, Virginia, and S. Dakota, 

 (lutrod. from Eu.) 



= = Peduncles and pedicels short (except in G. Carol in imnim, var. loncjipes) : carpels either 

 conspicuously hairy or wrinkled. 



a. Seed reticulately ridged or pitted : carpels hairy, not wrinkled. 



G. Carolinianum, L. A span to a foot high, spreading when large, loosely gray-pubes- 

 cent and mostly dingy-glandular : leaves incisely 3- or 5-parted, the cuneate segments more 

 or less deeply cut-toothed or dissected, with the ultimate divisions rather broad : peduncles 

 and pedicels seldom over an inch long, at length often densely crowded among the upper 

 leaves : petals rose-colored : beak of fruit loosely villous or glandular ; carpels villous-hispid, 

 usually black ; seed low-reticulate. — Spec. ii. 682 ; Trelease, I. c. G. atrum, Mcench, 

 Meth. 285. G. lanuginosiun, Jacq. Hort. Schanb. ii. 8, t. 140. — Open places, Canada to 

 Washington, south to tlie Gulf ami California. Most common in the South and West. (Mex., 

 W. Ind.) A form from New Braunfels, Texas, Lindheimer, with deeply pitted round seeds, 

 but scarcely differing otherwise, is var. Texanom, Trelease, 1. c. About New York City, 

 and elsewhere in the East, a form with narrower sepals and longer pedicels and beak than 

 usual is G. Bicknellii, Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, xxiv. 92. 



Var. longipes, Watson. Of looser habit : leaves commonly cleft into 3 equal broad 

 primary lobes : peduncles long and spreading ; pedicels scarcely bent. — Bot. King Exp. 

 50. — Mountains, Colorado and Utah to Washington, Suksdorf, and Brit. Columbia, jSIacoun. 



G. DissECTUM, L. Very like the preceding, but the principal lobes of the leaves conspicu- 

 ously narrow, with ultimate divisions mostly slender, falcate, and very acute : petals deeper 

 purple. — Cent. i. 21, & Amam, Acad. iv. 282; Trelease, 1. c. 77. — Vancouver Island to 

 California. (Introd. from Old World.) 



G. piLosiM, Forst. f. ? Slender and spreading from a thick perennial rootstock, the branches 

 at lengtli a foot or two long, retrorsely canescent-pubescent but not glandular : leaves nearly 

 as in G. Carolinianum but smaller and with more open sinuses, the ultimate segments narrow : 

 petals deep purple : carpels puberulent and somewhat villous. — Prodr. 91 ; F. Muell. fiKey 

 Syst. Vict. PI. i. 152. G. 7-etrorsum, Greene, Man. Bay-Reg. 69. — About San Francisco 

 Bay, California. (Adv. from Austral., N. Zeal.) 



