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dried petals are darker than in the several Beane species, but lighter than in the 
following one, and the stigmatic branches beyond the beaked portion are united into 
a long style ciantiy as in lah arboreum. Probably the species eal nearer to the last 
named than to preceding 
6. G. arboreum, pt 1 c. p. 315, pl. 31. — A tall arborescent shrub, 
6—12 ft. high, with a trunk of often 4 inches in thickness, the long 
branches stipu alate, distantly foliose towar e ends, and hispid with 
soft spreading hairlets, as are also the leaves and inflorescence. Stipules 
long-subulate from a broad base, 4—5". Leaves membranous, green on 
side, 7-nerved, the poke freely forking and anastomosing. Cymes short, 
3—4-flowered, on short lateral shoots, the peduncle and pedicels about 
1/2‘, Sepals acd: abruptly awned, hairy, 6“. Petals 9—10", dull 
red, obovate, entire, the 3 upper suberoct, the 2 lower spreading. 
Glands minute. Stamens 10”, hairy at the dilated bases. Carpels 
villous, their beaks as long as the stamens, but uniting beyond the axis 
into a simple glabrous style = nearly their own length which ends in 5 
scrceld eidesibie Seeds glabrous, minutely reticulate. 
Sou Haleakala! Maui, at an elevation of about 6000 ft. (near the path 
which <i pn erates to the cr at er). 
+7. G. Carolinianum, Z. — An annual or biennial herb, diffusely 
branching, pubescent. Stipules broad, searious. Leaves on fie petioles, 
palmately 5-cleft, the divisions cut again into oblong lobes. Peduncles 
axillary, 1—2‘ long, 2-flowered, the pedicels 8“. Bracts ovate-subulate. 
Sepals 2—3”, mucronate. Petals scarcely — emarginate, pale red. 
Carpels hairy. Seeds reticulate. _— nbc an. Bot. p. 73. 
A native of North America which |! ed in the d d pastures 
of Waimea! Hawaii. In the Flora of New Zealand it is iene’ as a “variety to G. dissectum, 
L., and its range stated to extend over the American continent from Canada to Cape 
Zealan 
Horn, also New 
2. ERODIUM, L Herit. 
stamens antheriferous, those opposite the petals scale-like. 
wanes or | ees beaks twisting spirally at maturity, bearded inside. 
Otherwise as in Geranium 
+1. E. cicutarium, L’Herit. — A hairy annual, branching from the base, 
spreading. Leaves waa the leaflets sessile, once or twice pinnatifid. 
Peduncle axilla ing an umbel of 2—8 flowers, the ae ae 
Sepals 2”, hep ioe a little longer, red. 
AE , now common in California; is spreading in Waimea! Kauai. 
3. PELARGONIUM, L Herit. 
Calyx 5-parted, the uppermost lobe spurred, the spur adnate to the 
pedicel. Petals irregular, the 2 upper ones approximate at the sides or 
