GERANIACEiE. (GERANIUM FAMILY.) 



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ten asli-colored, the radical long-petioled. Sepals short-mucronate ; 

 petals purple, .01 long, obovate, often truncate, twice as long as calyx 

 — Summer — Subalpine and alpine Lebanon. 



Fig. 81. 



(a) Flowers of a species of Geranium, (b) Leaf of the same, (c) The 

 stamens, 10 in number, 5 long and 5 short, united in a ring below. 

 (d) The fruit at maturity showing 4 of the 5 carpels raised elastically 

 by their curving styles : the fifth is just starting, (e) Seed, (/) The 

 same divided transversely, showing the cotyledons bent over in the 

 shape of an Italic s. 



2. O. tiiberosuni, L. If .1 to .4 ; roots tuberous ; stems more 

 or less pubescent or hirsute, erect, 2-3-forked above. Leaves nearly 

 round, 5-9-parted into oblong to lanceolate and linear segments, the 

 radical long-petioled, often .1 broad, the floral sessile. Sepals hairy, 

 ovate, abruptly mucronate ; petals purple, obcordate, .015 long, more 

 than twice as long as calyx — Spring — Fields ; common from coast to 

 subal])ine regions and interior plains. 



3. O. Liibanoticum, Boiss. etBl. % .S to .5, rootstockoUiqu£, 

 scaly ^ the fibres groioing from its under surface ; stems erect, usually less 

 than twice as long as root-leaves, more or less retrorsely hairy, or gla- 

 brescent. Stem leaves two^t\\Q rest all vQk(iic^\2^eiitagonal^ .05 to .07 broad, 

 palmately 5-parted, segments rlioinboid^ obtusely dentate and cut. Sepals 

 aristate, 5-nerved ; petals violet, 5-striped from base to middle, obtuse- 

 ly notched .015 to .03 long, twice as long as calyx — Subalpine Leb- 

 anon, Coelesyria, and Nusairy Mountains to Amanus, and northward. 



4. O. a§phodeloides, Willd. 2f .3 to .5, rootstoch as in last ; 

 stem asending or diffuse, leafy, branching. Leaves round, the lower 0- 

 10 lobed, .02 to .04 broad, the upper 8-5-parted, lobes iDcdge-shaped, 3- 

 fid. Sepals lanceolate, 5-nerved, aristate ; petals pale violet, obovate, 

 .01 long, twice as long as calyx — April to September — Cassius, and 

 northward. 



Var. hispidnm, Boiss. Stems and branches eoft-hispid. Pedicels 

 glandular. Sepals long-hairy — Subalpine Lebanon. 



