GERANIAOE^. (GERANIUM FAMILY.) 



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ten asli-colored, the radical long-petioled. Sepals sliort-mucroiiate ; 

 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. tuberosum, L. 2]! .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. Libanoticum, Boiss. etBl. If .d to .5, rootstochoUique, 

 scaly, the fibres growing from its tender surface ; stems erect, usually less 

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

 brescent. Stem leaves two,i\iQ rest all i2idicdl^'pentagonal, .05 to .07 broad, 

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

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

 ly notched .015 to .02 long, ' twice as long as calyx — Subalpine Leb- 

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



4. O. asptaodeloides, Willd. % .3 to .5, rootstoch as in last ; 

 stem asending or diffuse, leafy, branching. Leaves round, the lower 9- 

 10 lobed. .02 to .04 broad, the upper 3-5-parted, lobes icedge-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. hispidum, Boiss. Stems and branches soft-hispid. Pedicels 

 glandular. Sepals long-hairy — Subalpine Lebanon. 



