Ero,lium. (iKKANI ACK.l-:. 3(J J 



G. i-AKviMoiu M, Will.l. Sl.n.l.r .iii.l Hj.mi.liiiK. r.-tr..n«ly ^mv i,ut--w«.r.t : l.-aM-» nith 

 Lruad less lul.cii diNisinns: tl.iwtM m.t aKKr.Kaii-.|, Miiiiill. ih,- .k-i-p viol.-t jh-uiIi. Intl.- i-x- 

 ceediug tlio cah x. — Kmim. 716; A. Ka.stwou.1, Krvth.-a. iv. 145. — (•alif.,niia. Mt Taiiial- 

 pais. Con>,(l,m, Duncan's Mills. /Jury. ( A.lv. fn.n. So. I'luifi,- Mh ) I'n.laMv n„t M-jwiralilc 

 from the preceding, with which, also, it has sonietiniL-s l>fen rt-fi-rred u> (J. ditttclum. 



G. ROTiNniK6LHM, L. Low and spreading, Blender, war.elv a npan high: |.pdi«-lii, etr., 

 villous with i)ur|de glandular long white hairs : petals entire, small : fruit and i--w! m-arlr 

 as in a. disscrtum. — Siioc. ii. 683; Treleasc, 1. c. 77. — Michigan and about New York 

 City. (Introd. from Ku.) 



i. Seed neither pitted nor reticnlately ridge.l : i)et:ils scarcely exceeding the ralvx oxc.pi 

 in the second. 



G. pusillum, BruM. f. Slender, spreading, scjft-puhe.scent or the calyx, et<-., iwimewhat 

 glaniliilar villous or with short glands : leaves small, roundreniform or the ran line truncate 

 at l)a.-ie, c(iually cleft into ahont 7 cuneate ol.long lol.es each more or less regularlv 3 tootliinl 

 at apex : peduncles di-strihuted along the .stem : petals pale to deep violet, somewhat nouhod : 

 antheriferous stamens only 5 (exceptional in tiie genus) : fruit very small with pulKTiilent 

 beak, the carpels 1 line long, (inely canescent, not wrinkled. — Sj.ec. (Jemn. 27; L. Siiec. 

 ed. 2, ii. 9.'j7 ; Trelease, 1. c. 77. —Open places, Canada to West Virginia, Ohio, and Illinoia; 

 also in Utah, Jones, and from Idaho northwestward. 

 G. PyrenAici-.m, Burm. f. (Spec. Geran. 27). a European perennial with the aspect, fruit. 



and seed of the last, but witii obcordate petals twice as long as the calyx, appears to have l.fen 



collected many years ago at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, W'olle. 



G. m6i.le, L. Resembling 0. pusilltun, but lower, the leaves shorter lobed and the flowppi 

 fewer, more numerous toward the top : softly and densely glandnlar-villous : |)etals deep 

 purple, obcordate : fruit as large as in the la.-it, but the carj.els glabrous .ind conspicu- 

 ously trani^versely wrinkled; sec<is slightly striate. — Spec. ii. 682; Trclea-se. 1. c. 77; A. 

 Ea.stwood, Erythea, iv. 151.— Canada to X'ancouver I.sland, .south to California, Ohio, and 

 New York. (Sparingly introd. from Eu.) Si)ecimens with unwrinkle<l carj.ela have Ikmjii 

 collected at Falmouth, Mass., Dvane, and Painesville, Ohio, Beardslte. 



•I— -1— Ovarian portion of ripened carpels deciduous from the style, bearing two bristle- 

 like tuft.s of fibres at upper end : leaves I-2-ternately <livided. 



G. Robertianum, L. (IlEim RonKitr.) A span to a f(M.t and a half high.erect.sprfad- 

 ing or decumbent, purple-tinged, pulterulent and loo.sely glandularvillous.graveolent : leaven 

 3-5-angled, their ultimate lobes oblong, coarsely acuminate-toothed : pedicels rather short 

 and not refracteil : flowers open funnel-form, rose-purple : car|>els looselv wrinkled, sparingly 

 pubescent; .seeds smooth. — Spec. ii. 681 ; Trelea.se, I.e. 78. (i. iumlnrum. I)..n, Svst. i. 

 721. — Damp ravines, etc., New Brunswick and Canada to Pennsvlvania, Ohio, and Minne- 

 sota. (OM World.) 



2. ERODIUM. L'ller. Storksbill. (Name from c/hoSuW, a heron, because 

 of the beaked fruit.) — Acaulescent or at lenjSfth caule.scent herbs with the racHc:il 

 and cauline leaves either round-ovate and little lobed or elongated and pinnati- 

 sect. — Geraniol. t. 1-G; Willd. Spec. iii. G2.') ; Torr. & Gray. Fl. i. 207 Gray. 

 Gen. 111. ii. 129, t. l.')! ; Bonth. & Hook. Gen. i. 272; Trelease. Mem. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist. iv. 80, t. 10 ; Reiche in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 

 4, 9. — Mostly natives of the north temperate portion of the OKI World, some 

 species widely distributed as weeds, especially in sandy regions, 



* Leaves round-ovate, not lobed or with aj)proximated l>roa<i lolx^s : filaments grftatlr dilated 



atb.o.'se: beak of fruit nearly 2 inciies long; seeds large (2 to 'I\ lines lung). Native 



sjiecies. 



E. macroph;^llum, Hook. & .\kn. I'sually nearly or quite acaulescent, t4>ment<xK». with 



cojjiiuis interspersed long glaiulnlar hairs, at le.ist on the j»e<iicels : leaves lriangulnr-o«a(o 



or reniform to nearly deltoid, sometimes cri'uately IoIhhI, cloncly crenato ; fluwem mt^ily a 



