308 ON SEEDLINGS 



almost or quite exstipulate and stipules usually very small in the 

 2nd leaf), petiolate, much divided, glaucous-green or somewhat 

 cinereous, glandular-hairy all over ; petioles subterete, channelled 

 above, dilated and amplexicaul at the base, glandular-pubescent ; 

 stipules mostly adnate to the petioles, with membranous, colourless 

 free tips. 



No. 1. Ovate-cordate in outline, pinnatifid, with two to three 

 oblong slightly toothed segments on each side. 



Nos. 2 and 3. Cordate in outline, deeply bipinnatifid ; basal 

 pair of primary segments unequally ovate, the others oblong ; 

 secondary segments oblong or lanceolate, obtuse. 



Ultimate leaves cordate-ovate, obtuse, interruptedly bipinnati- 

 sect ; primary and basal pair of segments unequally or half ovate, 

 the others subelliptic in outline, interrupted with small, irregular- 

 sized, entire or cut segments between ; secondary segments some- 

 what similar, smaller ; tertiary segments small, subulate or lanceo- 

 late, obtuse or subacute, mucronate. 



Erodium verbenaefolium, Del. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, glandular-pubescent, pale green, 8t5 mm. 

 long. 



Cotyledons ovate-oblong, emarginate, unequally cordate at the 

 base, where they are five-nerved, and alternately penninerved 

 upwards, glabrous above except towards the base, glandular-ciliate, 

 and glandular-pubescent beneath, light green ; lamina 9 mm. long 

 on one side and 8 mm. on the other, 7'5 mm. broad ; petiole chan- 

 nelled above, dilated at the base and amplexicaul or perfoliate, 

 glandular-pubescent and hairy, very unequal in length, one being 

 sometimes twice as long as the other. 



Average length of two long ones 8'75 mm. 

 ,, short 5-25 mm. 



Stem herbaceous, annual, developed when about to flower. 



Leaves simple, radical and cauline, alternate, stipulate, petiolate, 

 glandular-pubescent on both surfaces, greyish ; petioles semiterete, 

 shallowly grooved above, dilated at the base and amplexicaul, glan- 

 dular-pubescent and hairy ; stipules adnate to the petiole, with 

 rounded, hyaline, or membranous, glandular-ciliate, free points. 



No. 1. Ovate-oblong, cordate at the base, bifid at the apex, 

 deeply pinnatifid, alternately or suboppositely penninerved with 

 the nerves directed straight into the lobes ; segments obtusely den- 

 tate. 



