MACLOSKIE I GERANIACEvG. 



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geminate, on longish peduncles. Sepals elliptical-lanceolate, equalling 

 the rose petals, long-awned and puberulous. Fruit smooth, pubescent. 

 Seeds reticulate. 



N. Patagon., in wet, moist shrubberies along Rio Negro. Subscandent, 

 25-100 cm. long. 



10. GERANIUM MOOREI Phil. 



Cespitose perennial, with a thick, woody root. Stems short, equalling 

 the radical leaves, and like them rather glabrous. Leaves mostly 5-par- 

 tite, the segments trifid. Peduncle i -flowered, much exceeding the leaves. 

 Sepals lanceolate, awned, pilose, half as long as the retuse petals. Carpels 

 hirsute. 



(Chili) ; S. Patagon. ; in marshy places near Rio Sta. Cruz. 



II. G. SESSILIFLORUM Cav. 



Stemless perennial, with thick descending rhizome. Leaves radical, 

 reniform, 5~7-partite, long-petioled, the petioles 2 cm. long, retrorsely 

 pilose. Scapes very short, i -flowered ; they and the calyx silvery. Petals 

 obcordate, twice as long as the sepals. 



(Chili; Australia); S. Patagon., on Cordilleras (Hatcher, "pink"); 

 Cabo Negro ; Magellan. By Rio Gallegos, and Rio Scheuen, and Rio 

 Chubut. 



2. ERODIUM L'Her. Stork's-bill. 



Flowers with the 2 upper petals slightly smaller than the other 3. 

 Stamens 5, with 5 staminodes and 5 glands. Beak ending in the stig- 

 mas ; the styles separating at maturity, bearded on the inside. 



Species 60, in temperate and warm regions. 



i. E. CICUTARIUM (L.) L'Her. 



Tufted, branched, 15-30 cm. high. Basal and lower leaves petioled, 

 pinnate, the pinnae pinnately parted or lobed. Upper leaves similar 

 but sessile. Peduncles exceeding the leaves, umbellately 2-i2-flowered. 

 Flowers purplish, 8 mm. broad. Beak long ; its branches at length coil- 

 ing together. 



(Common in Eurasia ; spreading over the United States to the Pacific coast , 

 also over Argentina and other parts of S. Amer.) ; N. Patagon., S. Patagon.; 



