﻿2.Q PLANTS FEXDLERIAX.E. 



in diameter ; the lower rounded-reniform in outline, the upper with the three principal 

 segments divaricate. Corolla when fully expanded an inch or less in diameter, deep 

 purple. — Well distinguished from its allies, as Dr. Engelmann remarks, by its long fila- 

 ments, which are recurved-spreading in anthesis, and by the much elongated peduncles 

 with comparatively short pedicels. Dr. Engelmann had indicated it as a new species ; 

 but I am so confident that it is the species noticed and imperfectly characterized by Dr. 

 James, that I venture to revive his name, which, unless thus identified, must ever remain 

 appended to the genus as a doubtful species, since no specimens of it exist in the collec- 

 tion made by him in Long's Expedition. 



' f90. G. Fremoxtii (Torr. ! in PL Fran, cum ic. incd.): perenne ; caulibus diffusis 

 petiolisque retrorsum pubescentibus ; foliis pubescentibus, superioribus profunde 3-5- 

 iidis basi truncatis, infimisve sinu lato cordatis, radicalibus 7-fidis, segmentis 3-lobatis 

 vel inciso-tridentatis mucronato-acutatis ; pedicellis binis cum sepalis breviter aristatis 

 glanduloso-pubesccntibus pcdunculum abbreviatum 2 - 3-plo superantibus, fructiferis sub- 

 declinatis; petalis obovatis emarginatis (pallide purpureis) basi villosis ad venas parce 

 villoso-barbatis ; filamentis piloso-ciliatis stylos nudos ima parte solum connatos aequanti- 

 bus; carpellis pilosis; rostro glanduloso-pubescente ; seminibus tenuiter reticulatis. — 

 Bottom lands of the Mora River, among shrubs ; August. (Also in the Raton Moun- 

 tains, Lieut. Abert, and probably farther north and west by CoL Fremont.) — Stems 

 weak, at first erect, two feet high. Radical leaves 2 or 3 inches in diameter. Pedun- 

 cles i to 2 inches, the pedicels 1 to 3 inches, in length. Flowers larger than in the pre- 

 ceding, from which it is readily distinguished. Dr. Engelmann remarks, that it is " rather 

 too near G. pentagynum [which I suspect is G. incisum, NuttJ] ; but may be distinguish- 

 ed by the slender stem, the broadly cordate or truncate base of the leaves, the shorter 

 points of the sepals, &c. G. pentagynum is remarkably stiff and erect; the leaves 

 deeply cordate, thick, silky with a fine appressed pubescence, and with prominent veins." 

 Fendler's specimen, like one of Lieut. Abert's, is rather less pubescent and more diffuse 

 than the original one of Fremont, the petals of which would appear to have been pale 

 purple, if not white. In the others they are light purple, with deeper-colored veins. 



* Dr. Engelmann, who has attentively studied our Gerania, proposes the following disposition of the North 

 American species of this group, viz. : — 



Perennes ; pedunculi liflori ; valvules capsula. Jeeves, plus minus piloses ; semina reticulata seu rvgosa. 



* Pedicelli dejlorati erecti seu suberecti. 



1. G. Richardso.nii, Fisch. 4" Mey. (G. albiflorum, Hook., Torr. §• Gray ; non Ledcb.) : caule erecto 

 cum petiolis glabriusculo ; pedicellis tenuiter glanduloso-pubescentibus ; filamentis basi pilosis calycem et stylos 

 pilosos tenia parte connatos sequantibus; valvis capsulse parce pilosiusculis; rostro glanduloso-pubescente; 



