Geranium. ( ; \\\{\ s; \ \c K.K. 



350 



scarce! 



ely over l.alf i,.,l. 1,.,,^. nillK-r .tout: calvx -l.-nM-Iy w,K.lly.vill..m.. „k„,v of iu h*i« 

 glaiul-tipiK-.l : hhiimi.t.s loi.^r ,„l„se : beak of fruit .an.-Biiiit an.l ^..iiK«hut viHoui.. — I'ro^lr 

 I. 641 ; Trelexsu, 1. c. (J. mn,, datum, fi, Hook. Fl. lior.-Aiu. i. 116. — Aliuka mud N W 

 Brit. America. (N. K. A.sia.) 



++ ++ At least tlie pedicel.x conspicuously Blan.lular-pubeiwent : p«-uU more or lean l^^-t 

 on the iuuer surface witli lung white rather hiiff liair^ : fihinicnt« villous, fruitii.e pe<li- 

 cels spreading or rcHexeil and l)ent. 



G. incisum, Nitt. Coarser than the j.receding and l.afv-l.niMcli.-d : jK-dir.-U ai..l oft«i 

 petioles or even the entire plant dingy glandnlarpnheMent with rather hh-.rt hair, an.l 

 somewhat unciually and comn.nnly retr..rsely villuus. or or,ii>i..,.ullv (in a fl.nd.r form) 

 canescent with very short incurved hairs: petals purple: Leak of fruit xerv ghindular — 

 Nutt. in 'lorr. & (iray, H. i. 206 ; Treh-asc, 1. c. 74. G. albijlorum, var. (') ,ur„„m, Torr. 

 & (Jray, 1. c. G. /Juokaimmm, var. iurisuw, Walp. Hep. i. 450. G. vi»co»itiimum, Fiwh k 

 Mey. Ind. Sem. Ilort. I'etrop. xi. Suppl. 18. G. i>et,l(i;/,,num, Kngelm. in ^Vi^Ii/.. Tour 

 Kortheru Mex. 90. G. Fremuntii, Macoun, Pha-ni.g. & (ryptog. 11. of t'anad. 10. (;. 

 erianthiim, Torr. Bot. Wilkes Kxped. 251 ; IJndl. Hot. l{eg. xxni. .Mi.M-. 44. xxviii. t. 52.— 

 "Woods and open places ; the coar>er ukjic villous form from the mountains of Hrit. t'olumhim 

 and Saskatchewan to Oregon, Idaho, and S. Dakota; the slen<ler more (anes.ent form fn<m 

 Central California to Oregon, Idaho, and Utah. A form douhtfully referahlc here, with 

 the purjile glandg of the next species and .seemingly glHhrous magenta j.etaU, «-cur» in 

 Oregon, Miss Mnlford. Some Washington specimens have the glan.lular hairs alm<«l con- 

 cealed heneath the very abundant long hairs. 

 G. Richardsonii, Fis< a. & Tkaitv. Slenderer, iiicnnspicnoiisly retron^elv pulK'nceni 

 below, the peduncles and pedicels anil sometimes the upper jiart of tin- stem villous \»ith 

 long white hairs tipped with purple glands : leaxesthin, the uiipermost with the terminal 

 lobe longer than the often greatly reduced lateral lobes: jiedicels straighter: jMtil.s white, 

 mcstly roseate-veined: beak of fruit sparingly puberulent and glandnlar-villous. — hid'. 

 Sem. Hort. Petrop. iv. 37 ; Trelea.'^e, 1. c. 75. G. albijlorum. Hook. FI. Hor.-Am. i. 1 16. t. 40. 

 G. Ilookerianum, Walp. Hep. i. 450.— Open places and ravines in the mountains, Saskaleh- 

 ewan to Utah and New Mexico. A reduced very slender occjisionally somev»liat ce»pii«».e 

 plant, scarcely to be referred elsewhere, occurs in the mountains of New Mexico, WalrtMi; 

 Arizona, Knowlton, Lemmon ; and S. California. Some Colonulo specimens liave leaver a|>- 

 proaching those of G. Fremontii in outline, and it is not certain that the two s|»ccie» do nut 

 hybridize. 

 G. Mexicanum, HRK. Slender, a couple of feet high, coarsely whit<> hairy, the hairs ap- 

 j)rosse(l on the leaves, but little glandular : leaves .3-lobed with openly V-sha|Md b.xvjil siims ; 

 the lowest very long-petioled ; the uppermost less than an inch long, with the Literal lol«« 

 greatly reduced : flowers sliort-pedicelled : petals white, about 4 lines long: fruit not iicen. 

 — Nov. Gen. & Spec. v. 230. G. IhrnnuiUzii, 'I'relea.se, I.e. 76. — Huachuca Mountains, 

 Arizona, Lemmon. Perhaps also Kio Zuni, New Mexico, Wooton. (Mex.) 

 -I— H— Spreading and cespito.se from the branched summit of the cauilex, leafv-hranchH : 

 leaves firm, of medium size (1 to 3 inches), 3-partcd with broadly cuneate divinions; Ihe 

 cauline mostly truncate at Imse, inci.sely once or twice 3-lobed at apex ; the lower onco or, 

 especially in radical leaves, twice cleft on the lower side: petals villous witiiin : fruiting 

 pedicels refracted. 



G. Fremontii, T<>im. A span to a foot or two high, the smaller plants s<nnplinios mi1>- 

 acaule.scent, the larger with slender spreading leafy liranches, dingy glandularpul>e.««x-nt at 

 least above : petals rather light rose-purple : lieak of fruit dirty-glandular — Torr. in (Jrar, 

 PI. Fendl. 26, & in .Many, Hep. 303, t. 3 ; Trelea.He, 1. c. 75. — Mountains, from the Hlar'k 

 Hills to Utah and New Mexico, extending, in a more hnwely bniiiched |M<rha]M iM-|KimMo 

 form witli longer and paler glandular hairs, into Arizona, Knowlinn. /.rmmon: and .S. Cali- 

 fornia, Parish, Orcult. A tall form of the Colorado mountains, witli looM'Iy vilh>us as well 

 as short glandular |inbescence, and often slender elongated |M<tioles, is var. PAkrti, Kngrlni. 

 in Gray, Am. .Tour. Sci. ser. 2, xxxiii. 405. 



G. caespitosum, Jamks. I'sually sh-nderer. often r<M>ting at the nodes, with lonper 

 slenderer retrorsely hispid or canescent but not glandular ]>eilicels : |>ctaU roneale to rich 



