44 GEKANIACE^. (GERANIUM FAMILY.^ 



Tribe I. Five glands of the receptacle alternate with the petals. Ovary deeply 5.1obed, 

 the carpels separating elastically at maturity from the long-beaked and indurated central 

 axis from below upward : the styles forming long t-ails which become revolute upwards 

 or spirally twisted. — Geranie.«. 



1. Geranium. Fertile stamens 10. Tails of the carpels not bearded. 



2. Erodium. Fertile stamens 5. Tails of the carpels bearded inside. 



Tribe II. No glands alternate with the petals. Ovary not lobed, becoming in fruit a 

 5-celled loculicidal capsule. Leaves compound, with entii'e leaflets. Juice soui-. — 



OXALIDE^. 



3. Oxalis. Leaves in ours 3-foliolate. 



1. GERANIUM, L. Craxesbill. 



Annual or perennial herbs, with enlarged joints, palmately lobed and mostly 

 opposite leaves, scarious stipules, and 1 to 3-flowered peduncles. 

 * Annual or biennial : Jloirers small. 



1. G. Carolinianum, L. Decumbent or ascending, diffusely branched, 

 pubescent: leaves palmately 5 to 7-parted, the divisions cleft into oblong- 

 linear lobes : petals rose-color, equalling the awned sepals : carpels hairy. — 

 Across the continent. 



Var. longipes, Watson. Peduncles usually solitary, and, Avith the pedi- 

 cels, much elongated. — Bot. King's Exp. 50. Colorado and southward. 

 * * Perennial: flowers large. 



2. G. FrerQOntii, Torr. Rather stout, more or less pubescent through- 

 out, with a short, close, (jtandular pubescence, Sjiarselij interiuixed with iongpv, jn'tose 

 hairs : upper leaves deeply 3 to 5-cleJl ; radical ones 1 -cleft, segments 3-lobed or 

 incised: petals light or deep purple. — From Colorado to Wyoming and 

 Idaho. Much that is called by this name is G. ccespitosum, James. 



Var. Parryi, Engelm. Stems and peduncles plainly glandular-villose : 

 lear^es Irss deeply cut, idttmate lubes or teeth ocate, somewhat obtuse. — Gray's Peak, 

 Colorado. 



3. G. Richardsoni, Pisch. & Mey. Taller but not so stout nor so hairy, 

 with the pubescmce usually fine and appressed, or somewhat glandular and 

 spreading upon the pedicels : leaves 5 to 7-cleft nearly to the base, the broad 

 lobes more or less incisely toothed: petals purple or sometimes white. — In the 

 mountains from New Mexico to British America and westward. 



4. G. incisum, Nutt. Closely resembling the last, but inore villous and 

 glandular-pubescent : leares rather more narroicly and laciniately cut : petals usually 

 deep purple. — Prom California through Montana to the Saskatchewan. 



5. G. CSespitOSUm, James. More slender and more diffusely branched . 

 radical leavps smaller, reniform, deeply 5 to 1-cleft, pubescent : flowers purple — 

 New T^Iexico and northward. Includes many of the forms which have been 

 called G. Fremontii. 



2. ERODIUM, L'Her. Storksbill. 



Sterile stamens scale-like. Tails of the carpels becoming spirally twisted. — 

 Leaves pinnate, peduncles umbellately 4 to 8-flowered, with a 4-bracte(i iuvo- 

 lucre ; petals small. 



