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10. GERANIACE/E. 



Willini2;a; Myponga : 



Mount Gambier. — Nov.- 

 Feb. — Temperate South 

 America. 



Family 10.— 

 GERANIACE>!£. 



Calyx persistant, of 5 

 distinct sepals, enlarged 

 in fruit ; petals 5, alter- 

 nate with 5 nectar-glands ; 

 stamens 10, free, in 2 rows, 

 the 5 outer ones shorter and 

 often sterile ; ovary of 5 

 carpels, whorled round a 

 central axis and pro- 

 duced upwards in a beak 

 consisting of the united 

 styles and awns of the ear- 

 pels ; the beak lengthens 

 after flowering, and at 

 maturity the carpels, with 

 their awns, separate elastic- 

 ally from the pensistant 

 central axis; carpels 1-seeded 

 face ; leaves stipulate. 



Petals equal. 



Fertile stamens 10 ; awns glabrous inside 

 Fertile stamens 5; awns hairy inside 



Petals unequal; calyx spurred 



1. Geranium, L. 

 (From the Greek cjeranos, a 



crane ; the fruit resembles a 

 crane's head and bill.) 



1. Geranium molle, 1^. 

 Dorr\'i-fnot Gera n'uiiii. Slender 

 annual covered with soft, spread- 

 ing hairs ; stems prostrate or 

 ascending; leaves circular, the 

 lower ones long-stalked, palm- 

 ately divided to about the middle 

 Into 5-7 oboval, incised lobes, 

 upper leaves more deeply cut; 

 peduncles usually shorter than 

 the petioles, bearing 2 flowers 

 on long slender pedicels; petals 

 reddisli-purple, deeply notched, 

 exceeding the cal,vx, eiliate at 

 base ; anthers blue, filaments 

 widened below, glabrous; beak 

 short; cai'pels wrinkled trans- 



Modiola mul'tifida. 



opening along 



the 



inner 



(lERANITM 1 



Erodium 2 

 Pelaegoxium 



Geranium molle. 



