274 DICOTYLEDONS. GERANIACE.^. Erodium . 



Herbs or Shrills or Trees. Leaves alternate, with stipules. 

 Flowers axillary. Mirb. Juss. 



1. LAVATERA. 



Cal. double, exterior 3-cleft. Styles many. Capsules nume- 

 rous, circularly arranged, 1 -seeded. 



1. L. arborea, stem arborescent, leaves with about "7 angles 

 downy plaited, peduncles axillary clustered single- flowered. 

 p. 2Q9.Rocks. 



2. MALVA. 



Cal. double, exterior of 3 leaves. Styles many. Capsules nu- 

 merous, circularly arranged, 1 -seeded, 



1. M. sylvestris, stem erect herbaceous, leaves with 7 rather 

 acute lobes, peduncles and petioles hairy, p. 208. IVaste 

 places. 



2. M. rotundifolia, stem prostrate, leaves roundish cordate 5- 

 lobed, fruitstalks bent down. p. 208. Waste places. 



3. M. moschata, stem erect, radical leaves renifbrm in 5 or 7 

 broad incised lobes, cauline one 5 -partite pinnato-multifid, 

 segments linear, cal. bairy, leaflets of the ext. cal. linear. 

 p % 209. Meadows and pastures. 



3. ALTH.EA. 



Cal. double, exterior of 9 leaves. Styles several. Capsules 

 numerous, circularly arranged, 1 -seeded. 



1. A. officinalis, leaves oblongo-ovate slightly 3 5-lobed ser- 

 rated, p. 208. Marshes. 



ORDER LIV. GERANIACE.E. Juss. 



Cal. inferior, 5-leaved. Cor. 5-petaled, regular or irregular. 

 Stamens 10, sometimes monadelpbous. Ovary 1. Style \. 

 Stigmas 5. Capsule 3 -celled, 3-valved, valves separating 

 with elasticity from their axis and remaining attached by their 

 indurated persistent style. Seeds one in each cell, erect, with- 

 out albumen. Embryo doubled. 



Herbs with alternate stipulated leaves. Mirb. 



1. ERODIUM. 



Monogynous. Cal. of 5 leaves. Cor. of 5 petals. Nectarife- 

 rous glands 5. Imperfect filaments 5, alternating with the 

 5 perfect stamens. Fruit beaked, separating into 5 1 -seeded 

 capsules, each with a long spiral awn bearded in the inside. 



1. E. cicutarium, peduncles many-flowered, leaves pinnate, leaf- 

 lets sessile pinnatifid and cut, petals longer than the cal., stem 

 prostrate hairy, p. 205, Waste grounds. 



