26 COMMON CANADIAN \VILI> PLANTS. 



ORDER XXI. GERANIA'CEJE. (GERANIUM FAMILY.; 



Strong-scented herbs with pentamerous and symmetrical 

 flowers, the filaments usually united at the base, and o glands on 

 the receptacle alternate with the petals. Style 5-cleft. Carpels 

 5, each 2-ovuled (but 1 -seeded), they -and the lower part of the 

 long styles attached to a long beak which rises from the recc)>i <!<'. 

 In fruit the styles split away from the beak and curl upwards, 

 carrying the carpels ivith them. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 



1. Geranium. Stamens 10, all with anthers. 



2. Ero'dium. Stamens with anthers, only 5. 



1. GERANIUM, L. CBANESBILL. 



1. G. macula'tum, L. (WILD C.) Stem erect, hairy, about 

 a foot high. Leaves 5-7-parted, the wedge-shaped divisions lobed 

 and cut. Flowers purple, an inch across. Petals entire, l>earded on 

 the claw, much lonycr than the long-pointed sepals. Open woods 

 and fields. 



2. G. Carolinia'num, L. (CAROLINA C. ) Stem usually decum- 

 bent, hairy. Sepals awn-pointed, as long as the notched rose- 

 coloured petals. Waste places. 



3. G. Robertia'num, L. (HERB ROBERT.) Stems reddish, 

 spreading, pubescent ; branches weak. Leaves 3-divided, or 

 pedately 5-divided, the divisions twice pinnatifid. Sepals awned, 

 shorter than the reddish-purple petals. Plant with a very xtrnn<j 

 odour. Shaded ravines and moist woods. 



4. G. pUsU'lum, L. (SMALL-FLOWERED C. ) Stem procumbent, 

 slender, minutely pubescent. Leaves rounded, kidncy-slm }>.<!, 

 deeply 5-7-cleft, the divisions wedge-shaped. Sepa/* (ttntfi,^, 

 about the same length as the purplish petals. Waste places. 



2. ERO'DIUM, L'Her. STORKSBILL. 



E. cicuta'rium, L'Her. Stem low and spreading, hairy. 

 Leaves pinnate, the leaflets sessile, pinnatifid. Peduncles 

 flowered. Styles whon they separate from the beak 

 the inside. Not common. 



