- BRODIUM. GERANIACE. 107 
4-5 lines long, glandular ciliate and minutely pilose, gradually contracted 
to the slender awn, inner ones with rather broad purple margins and ab- 
ruptly awned ; petals obovate entire, 6-8 lines long densely bearded on the 
edges at base inside, obscurely veined; filaments longer than the styles 
dilated and ciliate at base ; styles pilose, the free tips %-1 line long, con- 
nivent. Carpels minutely pubescent; beak 2 inches long. Edge of woods 
and open places throughout the Willamette valley. 
2 ERODIUM L’Her. Geran. t. 1-6. 
Herbs, rarely shrubby with pinnately parted or palmately 
veined stipulate leaves and 1-3-flowered peduncles usually in the 
axils of the upper leaves. Sepals 5, equal, regular. Petals 5, 
mostly equal. Stamens 10, the 5 opposite the petals short and 
sterile, or reduced to scales, the 5 alternate with the petals longer 
and perfect, with nectariferous glands at the base of the fila- 
ments, Styles persistent, bearded on the inner side, at length 
spirally twisted below. Leaves often pinnate and bipinnately 
parted or lobed, when opposite more or less unequal in size: 
peduncles terminal or lateral (opposite the leaves or in the axil 
of the smaller one), umbellately 2-several-flowered with a 4- 
bracted involucre at the base of the pedicels. Carpels very sharp- 
pointed below, covered with obliquely ascending appressed hairs, 
tardily if at all dehiscent. Seeds obconical or oblong, not 
sculptured. 
* Leaves mastly opposite, pinnate or pinnatifid, the divisions lobed 
or toothed : pedicels at length deflexed, the fruit remaining erect. 
E. crcurarium L’Her. Ait. Hort. Kew. ii, 414. Hairy, much branched 
from the base, an inch to 2 feet long: leaves opposite, pinnate, the leaflets 
laciniately pinnatifid with narrow acute lobes: peduncles exceeding the 
leaves bearing a 4-8-flowered umbel: sepals 1-3 lines long,facute: petals 
bright rose-color, a little longer: tail of the carpels 1-2 inches long. Com- 
mon throughout the Pacific States and Territories. Flowers in very early 
spring. 
E. moscnatum Willd. Sp. ili, 631. More or less glandular pubescent: 
stems a few inches to a foot long: leaves pinnate, the oblong-ovate leaflets 
unequally and doubly serrate: flowers pale on short pedicels: sepals 3-4 
lines long: whole plant exhaling a musky odor. Roadsides, southwestern 
Oregon and California. 
* * Leaves mostly radical, round-ovate: pedicels erect in fruit. 
‘E. macrophyllum H. & A. Bot. Beechy 327 (?). Somewhat canes- 
cent with short spreading hairs that are often gland-tipped: subcau- 
lescent, with a straight perpendicular annual root: leaves round 
reniform to triangular ovate with a broad shallow sinus, cre- 
nately dentate, 6-18 lines broad, on petioles 1-3 inches long: ped- 
uncles stout, 1-6 inches long 1-several-flowered: inyolucral bracts 
lanceolate, acuminate, 1-2 lines long: sepals broadly lanceolate shortly 
acuminate scarious margined, prominently 5-nerved: petals white, ob- 
ovate, entire, 2-3 lines long exceeding the calyx: stamens 5, subtended 
by a broad appendage that is attached to them half way up or more:: style 
shorter than the stamens, 5-lobed: carpels densely hispid 5-7 lines long, 
prominently keeled, acuminate below: seed oblong, smooth, 3 lines long. 
n clayey soil near Ashland, Oregon. 
