104 GERANIACE^E. (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.) 



- -- Leaves palmately lobed or dissected. 



3. Q. 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 awn-pointed, as long 

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

 vert/ minutely reticulated. Barren soil and waste places; common. May- 

 Aug. Depauperate forms, except by the seeds, are hardly dk.inguishable 

 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, finely 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 last ; villous with long white hairs tipped with purple glands ; leaves 

 short-lobed. Rare. (Nat. from Eu.) 



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

 rounded kidney-form, 5 - 7-parted, the divisions wedge-shap'ed, mostly 3-lobed ; 

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

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



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

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

 spontaneous. (Nat. from Eu.) 



G. COLUMB^NUM. (LONG-STALKED C.) Minutely hairy, with very slender 

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

 duncles and pedicels Jil) form ana elongated ; sepals awned, about equalling the 

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

 G. dissectum. Rarely introduced ; Perm, 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 awn ed ; seeds 

 minutely reticulate. Rare. (Nat. from Eu.) 



2. ERODIUM, L'Eer. STORKSBILL. 



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

 bearded inside. Otherwise as Geranium. (Name from ^pw8tds, a lirron.) 



E. CICUTARIUM, 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. Ovaries 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. 



