16 PLANTS OF BERMUDA. 



2. 0. repcm. Zmc. (Creeping Sorrel). A small, creeping plant, 

 emitting long rooting stems and underground stolons, which are 

 perennial, stems matted, branching at nodes ; petioles slender, 

 hairy ; leaflets three, small, one -quarter to one -third of an inch in 

 diameter, obcordate, hairy, ciliate at margin; flower-stalks slen- 

 der, one to two flowered, jointed or forked at middle where are 

 two smaU leafy bracts ; sepals lance-shaped, acute ; petals twice 

 the length of sepals ; stamens ten, the inner five being equal in 

 length to hairy styles; capsule downy, cells about six- seeded. 

 Distribution, Jamaica, Ascension, etc. ; habitat, a troublesome 

 weed, very common. Flowers quarter-inch, yellow ; October to 

 March. 



3. 0. Dillenii. Jacq. An annual, compact plant, all i^arts cov- 

 ered with soft hairs ; stems four to six inches, rooting and branch- 

 ing at the tufted base only, then erect ; petioles slender, one and a 

 half inches long ; leaflets half-inch in diameter, not ciliate ; flower- 

 stalks slender, two and a half inches, two -flowered, forked much 

 above the middle ; stamens longer than styles ; capsule half -inch, 

 cells eight to ten seeded, seeds red, transversely wrinkled. Distri- 

 bution, North America ; habitat, St. David's, common. Flowers 

 yellow, half-inch ; May. 



A handsome species of the iibove genus {0. Germia) is frequent in 

 gardens, the stout, erect flower-stalk terminates in a many-flowered 

 umbel of yellow drooping flowers, one and a half inches in 

 diameter. 



Nat : Orel : 17 Geraniaccce. 



Herbaceous plants, stems swollen and brittle at the nodes; 

 leaves opposite or opposed to flower-stalks ; sepals five, persistent; 

 petals five ; stamens ten, united at base, five larger ; styles five ; 

 ovary five-celled, cells one-seeded. Fruit consisting of five one- 

 seeded carpels, whieh are prolonged outside of a woody axis into a 

 beak ; from this axis they separate, when ripe, at the base, curling 

 uj)wards to the tip, where they remain adherent. 



To this order belong the garden varieties of Pelargonium, and 

 the single and double Geraniums which abound in our gardens. 

 The former are distinguished by having only seven fertile stamens 

 and irregular flowers. 



I. GERANIUM. 



Flou'crs regular ; stamens ten, fcrtiU, altcrnaiinij u-ith glands. 



1. G. Carolinianum (Wild geranium). An annual, spreading 

 plant, softly pubescent; stem branched, eight to twelve inches 

 long, ribbed, at length prostrate ; stipules pointed, hairy ; leaves 

 opposite, on long petioles, roundish, five-lobed almost to base, 

 lobes irregularly cut; flower- stalks axillary, short (or long), divid- 

 ing into two sliort one-flowered pedicels, ^^dth leafy bracts at fork ; 

 sepals five, silky, with long awns; petals five, oblong, wedge- 

 sliaped; carpels obscured with long silky hairs. Distribution, 

 United States; habitat, waysides and waste places, common. 

 Flowers half-inch, pale lilac, veined ; March to June. 



