GERANIACKTIi. (OKRANIUM FAMII.Y.) lO") 



or the lower spatulate and often opposite ; flowers scattered, small (barely 3" 

 long) ; sepals ovate, jiointed, sniootli-ed^red or nearly so, equalling the dejjresseU 

 10-celled pod; styles distim-t. — Dry woods: connnon. — Hoot apparently an- 

 nual; but the ])laiit i)ropaj;:ite(l iiy suckers from the base of the stem. 



2. L. striatum, Walt. Stems gregarious, erect or ascending from a creep- 

 ing or decumbent base, slightly viscid, and with the mostly racemose short 

 branc/iis striate icith about 4 sharp icintj-Ulce aiitjles decurrent from the leaves; 

 these broader than in the last, and mostly oblong, usually with all the lower 

 ones opposite ; flowers more crowded ; sepals scarcely equalling the very small 

 brownish pod : otherwise nearly as in No. 1. (L. oppositifolium, Enydui.) — Wet 

 or boggy groimds. New England to Virginia and southward. — Generally con- 

 founded with L. Virgiuianum (Hgured for it in lieichenb. Ic. Exot.), but well 

 distinguished by Walter, except that the stem-leaves are commonly opposite up 

 to the first branch : here described from the indications given by C. F. Aimlin. 



3. L. sulcatum, Riddell, 1836. Stem strictly erect from an annual root, 

 and with the upright or ascending branches striate-anglcd or grooved; leaves 

 linear, acute, or the upper subulate, rather rigid ; a pair of dark (jbinds in place 

 of stipules : sepals ovate-lanceolate and sharj)-j)ointed, strongly 3-nerved and 

 (like the bracts) with rough-bristly-glandular margins, scarcely longer than the 

 ovoid-globose incompletely 10-cclled pod ; sti/les united almost to the middle. 

 (L. Boottii, Plunchon, 1848.) — Dry soils, Rhode Island to Illinois and south- 

 westward. — Flowers and pods twice as large as in the preceding. (L. itfoiDUM, 

 Pursli., of the Western plains, probably in Minnesota, is dwarf, glaucous, and 

 has the styles united almost to the top.) 



* * Escapinq from cultivation, hlue-Jlowered, annual. 



4. L. usiTATfssiMUM, L. {COMMON Plax), IS Occasionally spontaneous in 

 fields. 



Okdkh 24. GEKAIVIACE.E. (Gkraxium Family.) 



Plants {chief ij herbs) with perfect and f/eneralli/ si/mmetrical h>/pnfji/nous 

 flowers ; the stamens, counting sterile fdaments, as many or commonly twice 

 af many, and the lobes or cells (1 -few-oculed) of the ovary as many, as 

 the sepals, an axis of the dry fruit persistinr/. — Seeds withont albumen, 

 except in Oxalis. The flower of Impatiens is partly, and that of Tropa;- 

 olum still more unsynnnetrical. Herbage often strong-scented, but never 

 punctate with pellucid dots. — As a whole the order, here recombined 

 as it was founded by Jussieu, is hard to define. Of late it has generally 

 been broken into several small orders : the principal ones here stand as 

 suborders, with only one or two genera to each. — Thop.koi.um, the 

 Gardkx NA.STURTitTM, Occupies a position between the fii-st and the 

 second suborder. 



SuiJORnr.K I. OCKANIEiE. (Gi-ranh-m Family proper.) 



Flowers 5-merous and symmetrical; the persistent sepals imbricated 

 and the petals usually convolute in the bud : 5 glands of the receptacle 



