104 GERANIACE^. (GERANIUM FAMILY.) 



natifid ; sepals awned, shorter than the (red-purple) petals ; carpels wrinkled ; 

 seeds smooth. — Moist woods and shaded ravines ; N. Eng. to Mo., and north- 

 ward. June - Oct. (Eu.) 



-1- -t- Leaves palmately lohed or dissected. 



3. G. Carolini^num, L. Stems at first erect, diffusely branched from 

 the base, hairy ; leaves about 5-parted, the divisions cleft and cut into numerous 

 oblong-linear lobes ; peduncles and pedicels short ; sepals aicn-pointed , as long 

 as the emarginate (pale rose-colored) petals ; carpels hair\' ; seeds ovoid-oblong, 

 very minutely reticulated. — Barren soil and waste places; common. May- 

 Aug. — Depauperate forms, except by the seeds, are hardly distinguishable 

 from 



G. DissECTUM, L. More slender and spreading, with narrower lobes to 

 the crowded leaves, and smaller red-purple petals notched at the end ; seeds 

 short-ovoid or globular, Jinely and deeply pitted. — Waste grounds, rare. (Nat. 

 from Eu.) 



G. rotundif6lium, L. With the habit of the next but the fruit and seed 

 of the lavSt ; villous with long white hairs tipped with purple glands ; leaves 

 Bhort-lobed. — Rare. (Nat. from Eu.) 



G. PUSiLLUM, L. Stems procumbent, slender, minutely pubescent ; leaves 

 rounded kidney-form, 5 - 7-parted, the divisions wedge-shaped, mostly 3-lobed ; 

 sepals aimless, about as long as the (purplish) petals; stamens 5 ; fruit pubes- 

 cent; seeds smooth. — Waste places, Mass. to Penn. ; rare. (Xat. from Eu.) 



G. MOLLE, L. Like the last ; more pubescent ; flowers dark purple ; sta- 

 mens 10; carpels transversely wrinkled; seed slightly striate. — Occasionally 

 spontaneous. (Xat. from Eu.) 



G. coLUMBiNUM. (LoKG-STALKED C) Miuutely hairy, with very slender 

 decumbent stems ; leaves 5 - 7-parted and cut into narrow linear lobes ; pe- 

 duncles and pedicels Jill form and elongated ; sepals awned, about equalling the 

 purple petals, enlarging after flowering; carpels glabrous; seeds nearly as in 

 G. dissectum. — Karely introduced ; Penn. and southward. June, July. (Nat. 

 from Eu.) 



G. SiBfRicuM, L. Slender, repeatedly forked, short-villous ; leaves 3-cleft 

 with serrate divisions; flowers dull-white, mostly solitary ; sepals awned ; seeds 

 minutely reticulate. — Kare. (Nat. from Eu.) 



2. ERODIUM, L'Her. Storksbill. 



The .5 shorter stamens sterile or wanting. Styles in fruit twisting spirally, 

 bearded inside. Otherwise as Geranium. (Name from ipwhios, a heron.) 



E. cicutXrium, L'Her. Annual, hairy; stems low, spreading; stipules 

 acute ; leaves pinnate, the leaflets sessile, 1 - 2-pinnatifid ; peduncles several- 

 flowered. — N. Y., Penn., etc. ; scarce. (Adv. from Eu.) 



3. FLCERKEA, Willd. False Mermaid. 



Sepals 3. Petals 3, shorter than the calyx, oblong. Stamens 6. OA-aries 3, 

 opposite the sepals, united only at the base ; the style rising in the centre ; 

 stigmas 3. Fruit of 3 (or 1 - 2) roughish fleshy achenes. Seed anatropous, 

 erect, filled by the large embryo with its hemispherical fleshy cotyledons. — 

 A small and inconspicuous annual, with minute solitary flowers on axillary 

 peduncles. (Named after Floerke, a German botanist.) 



1- F. proserpinacoides, Willd. Leaflets 3 - 5, lanceolate, sometimes 

 2 -3-cleft. — Marshes and river-banks, W. New Eng. to Penn., Ky., Wise, 

 and westward. April -June. Taste slightly pungent. 



