Geranium. | GERANIACE. 89 
Kermapec Isutanps, NorrH anp SourH IsLANps, CHATHAM ISLANDS: 
Extends as far south as the Bluff, but most plentiful in the north. Var. 
australe occurs in Australia, Tasmania, and South America; the typical form 
is abundant in the Northern Hemisphere. 
2. G. microphyllum, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 8, t. 5.—A slender 
much-branched prostrate and straggling perennial 6-18in. long, 
more or less pubescent with appressed silky white hairs, which are 
sometimes retrorse on the peduncles and pedicels. Leaves on long 
slender petioles ; blade $-1in. diam., orbicular in outline, cut to the 
middle or below into 3—7 broad or narrow obcuneate lobes, which 
are more or less deeply toothed at the tips; stipules small. Pe- 
duncles 1-flowered, rarely 2-flowered ; flowers usually white. Sepals 
ovate-lanceolate, barely awned. Petals longer than the sepals, 
entire or slightly retuse. Carpels smooth and even, pilose. Seeds 
longitudinally striated, reticulations long and narrow, not con- 
spicuous.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 36; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 80. G. po- 
tentilloides, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 40 (non L’ Herit). 
NortH AND SourtH IsnAnps, SrEwarT IsLAND, AUCKLAND ISnANDS : 
Common from the North Cape southwards, ascending to 3000ft. Endemic. 
This differs from all the forms of G. dissectwm in the more slender habit, 
less deeply lobed and smaller leaves, 1-flowered peduncles, paler flowers, and in 
the much smaller and narrower reticulations on the seeds. 
53. G. sessiliflorum, Cav. Diss. 198, t. 77, f. 2.—A depressed 
almost stemless perennial, more or less covered with spreading or 
retrorse silky hairs. Rootstock stout and woody, often branched 
above. Leaves mostly radical, numerous, crowded, on long slender 
petioles; blade +~2in. diam., orbicular, deeply divided into 3-5 
toothed or lobed segments; stipules broad, membranous. Flower- 
ing-stems very short or quite undeveloped. Peduncles usually 
1-flowered, short, seldom equalling the leaves. Flowers small. 
Sepals oblong, shortly awned, silky. Petals white, exceeding the 
sepals. Carpels even, minutely hairy. Seeds smooth, not reticu- 
lated.—Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 36; Benth. Fl. Austral. i. 297; 
T. Kirk, Students’ Fl. 80. G. brevicaule, Hook. in Journ. Bot. i. 
(1834) 252; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 40. 
NorrH AND SourH Isnanps, StEwarr IstAnp: Not uncommon from the 
Lower Waikato southwards, ascending to 3000 ft. Also in Victoria, Tasmania, 
and temperate South America. 
Easily distinguished from all the other species by the small size, stemless 
habit, and even seeds. 
4. G. Traversii, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 726.—A perennial 
herb, more or less hoary in all its parts with short and dense silvery 
white hairs ; stems decumbent or prostrate, 1-2ft. long. Radical 
leaves on long slender petioles 4—9 in. long; blade 1-3 in. diam., 
orbicuiar in outline, 5—7-lobed to the middle; lobes cuneate, toothed 
or lobed at the tips, silky-hoary on both surfaces. Cauline leaves 
much smaller and on much shorter petioles. Stipules broadly 
