Geranium 



GERANIACEiE 



155 



corymbose. Pedicels with glandular hairs. Sepals tipped with a long 

 mucro (1-2 mm. I.), 5-7 mm. 1., often even to 8 mm. 1. in fruit. Petals 

 ■vvhite tinged with pink, barely as long as the sepals. Beak of fruit 



Fig. i8.— Geranium carolinianum L. 



A, Shoot bearing flower and fruit X 3. from the central column in l)Otli 



B, Fruit with valves separating elastically directions x 2. 



C, Seed x 3. 



12-18 mm. 1., pubescent, hairs generally spreading. Valves smooth, with 

 shaggy hairs, separating partly from base to apex, and partly from apex to 

 base. Seeds with finely reticulate markings. 



Family XLI. OXALIDACE^E. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves compound, alternate. 

 vStipules free from the petiole, or not, or wanting. Sepals 5, 

 imbricate. Petals 5, twisted in bud. Stamens 10, united at the 

 base ; filaments alternately unequal, 5 opposite the sepals longer. 

 Ovary 5-celled ; styles 5, distinct, with terminal capitate 



