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1. E. cieutarium (L.) L'Her. Clocks; Storksbill; Pinkets. At 

 first acaulescent, the leaves forming a close rosette upon the 

 ground; at length ascending; villous-pubescent; stems red or 

 green. Basal and lower stem-leaves petioled, pinnate with 

 finely pinnatifid subsessile divisions. Pedicels at length re- 

 flexed, but the fruit remains erect. Flowers 4-8 in a 4-bracted 

 umbel. Sepals tipped by 1-2 bristle-like hairs. Petals pink- 

 purple with darker veins; hairy at the very base. An abun- 

 dant weed of waste places. January-December. 



2. GERANIUM. 



Annual or perennial herbs, with forking stems and swollen 

 nodes. Leaves simple. Inflorescence axillary; umbellate or 

 solitary. Stamens 10; all with perfect anthers and in 2 sets 

 as to length, or as in Erodium. Carpels 5. 



Annual with weak stems and small flowers; stamens 



5 1. G. piisi II ii in 



Perennials with stout stems and showy flowers; sta- 

 mens 10. 



Plant more or less tufted; petals pink-purple 2. G. Fremoutii 

 Plant scarcely tufted if at all; petals usually 



white 3. G. Richardson ii 



1. G. imsillum Burm. f. Cranesbill. Stems slender and weak; 

 pubescent or villous; 4-18 inches long. Lea-ves round in out- 

 line with a heart-shaped base; deeply divided into 7-9 more or 

 less wedge-shaped lobes that are entire or 3-toothed at the 

 apex. Flowers 2 to each peduncle; small; pink-purple, with 

 notched petals. Anther-bearing stamens often only 5 as in 

 Krodium. In waste places; not common. May-September. 



2. G. Fremontii Torr. (G. nervosum Rydb.) Perennial from 

 a branched caudex. Stems tufted; ascending or spreading; 

 pubescence more or less glandular above. Leaves large and 

 rather thick; those from the caudex long-petioled and 7-cleft 

 into wedge-shaped and 3-lobed or -incised segments; stem- 

 leaves deeply 3-5-cleft. Pedicels stout; hirsute-glandular. 

 Sepals awn-tipped. Petals pink-purple, with darker veins of 

 same color; reversely-heart-shaped. Moist ground in river- 

 valleys and on mountain slopes. June-August. 



3. G. Richardsonii F. & M. (G. strigosum Rydb.) About 

 same size as No. 2; perennial from an unbranched or slightly 

 branched caudex. Stems single or few; erect or ascending; 

 nearly glabrous or purplish glandular-pubescent. Leaves large 

 and thin; those from the caudex long-petioled and 3-5-parted 

 into incised, lobed or toothed divisions. Pedicels glandular. 

 Sepals awn-tipped. Petals white (or sometimes pink). Moist 

 shady places near mountain streams. 



LINAGES. Flax Family. 



Herbs with leaves alternate or opposite, entire and 

 exstipulate. Inflorescence a raceme or a corymbose or 

 panicled cyme. Flowers perfect; regular and usually 

 symmetrical ; the parts hypogynous. Sepals and petals 

 normally 3* the latter usually ephemeral. Stamens 



