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versely, and curling upwards f>n tlie elastic awn when ripe. 



Moist places: Adelaide; Mount Lofty Range; Mount 

 Gambier. — Sept. -Jan. — Europe; western Asia. 



2. Erodium, L'Heritier. 

 (From the Greek crodias, heron ; resemblance of the 



fruit 



to a liei'on's bill.) 



Two outer sepals 5-nerved, 3 inner ones 3-nerved, with 

 broad scarious edges ; 5 outer stamens scalelike, without 

 anthers, filaments dilated in lower part; carpels obconi- 

 cal, villous; awns with long silky hairs on the inner side, 

 separating upwards from the axis and twisting 

 spirally. 



Leaves pinnatifid /,'. Bofrys 1 



Leaves piunatisect (segments free). 



Segments with toothed lobes E. moscha'tum 2 



Segments deeply pinnatifid E. cicutarium 3 



1. Erodium Botrys, Ber- 



toloni. Annual, with prostrate 

 or a.scending stems beset with 

 long, white, recurved hairs : 

 leaves oval-oblong, the radical 

 ones long-stalked, pinnatifid Avith 

 coarsely toothed lobes, the upper 

 ones with narrow, incised lobes ; 

 stipules oval-ciliate ; peduncles 

 erect, glandular-hairy. longer 

 than the leaf, bearing an umbel 

 of 1-4 flowers; petals erect, purp- 

 lish, with 3 dark veins, half as 

 long again as the calyx ; filaments 

 toothed or not; beak 7-10 cm. 

 (2.\-4 in.) long. 



Common in pasture. — Aug.- 

 Oct. — Mediterranean region. 



2. E. moschatum, L'Heri- 

 tier. 2Iusk Erodium. Annual or 

 biennial, more or less glandular- 

 hairy, smelling slightly of musk ; 

 stems stout, prostrate or ascend- 

 ing; leaves long, pinnatisect, the 

 segments distant, oval, sometimes 

 minutely stalked, coarsely toothed or 

 conspicuous ; flowers pale-purple, 1-9 

 peduncles which are .sometimes radical ; 

 than calyx and ciliate on the claw ; 

 stamens 2-toothed 

 in.) long. 



Erodium Botrys. 



lobed ; stipules oval, 



in umbels on long 



petals rather longer 



filaments of fertile 



near the ))ase ; beak 3-4 cm. (about I5 



