362 GERANIACE^. Erodium. 



or 3 together: petals wliite, 5 to 8 Hues loug, little surpassiug the broad sepals: beak of 

 fruit stout ; ripeued carpels more hairy than in our other species, conspicuously truncate at 

 top. — Bot. Beech. 327; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 679; Trelease, 1. c. 81. E. Califoniicum, K. 

 Braudegee, Zoe, iv. 86. — Oregon, Ashland, Howell, through California. (Lower Calif., 

 Parr;/, Orcutl.) 



E. Calif ornicum, Greene. Tall and branching, puberulent and beset with purple-ti|iped 

 glandular hairs : leaves ovate, reniforni-cordate, crisped, crenate, crenately about 7-lobed : 

 Howers frequently 5 or 6 in a cluster : petals deep rose-red or purple except in albinos. — 

 Fl. Francis. 99, & Man. Bay-Keg. 70. — California, from San Francisco southward. 



E. Texanum, Gray. Ces])itose, with ascending leafy branches, canesceutly appressed- 

 pubescent, witliout glandular hairs : leaves elongated-ovate, cordate to truncate or the upper 

 narrowed at tiie base, the radical sligiitly crenately lobed and the cauline obtusely 3-5-loljed 

 with rather acute open sinuses, shallowly crenate to dentate : flowers in clusters of about 3 : 

 sei)als narrow, often silvery, usually purple-veined : petals purj)le, 7 to 9 lines long on the 

 earliest flowers, but mostly greatly reduced or sujjpressed : beak of fruit slender; carpels 

 not prominently truncate. —Gen. 111. ii. 130, t. 1.51, PI. Lindh. pt. 2, 157, & PI. Wright, ii. 

 23; Trelease, 1. c. 81. — Texas to Central California and Lower California. 



* * Foliage of the preceding, but the upper leaves more incisely cut and serrate: fruit 

 small, its beak al>out an inch long ; seeds not over 1^ lines loug. Ballast plants from the 

 Mediterranean Kegion. 



E. MALACOIDES, Willd. Caulcscent, somewhat glandular and hispid-villous : upper leaves 

 incisely 5-9-lobed, irregularly toothed : sepals tijjped with bristle-like hairs : petals small, 

 pale roseate. — Phyt. 10, & Spec. iii. 639; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. v. t. 185, f. 4868 {Hero- 

 dium) ; Trelease, L c. 81 {malachoides). — On ballast, New York City, Brown. 



* * * Leaves oblong-ovate, pinnatifid to tripinnatifid : fruit large, its beak 3 to 5 inches 

 long ; seeds as in the last. Occasional rather large caulescent plants from the Mediter- 

 ranean region. 



B. cic6nium, Willd. Even the large cauline leaves subternately 2- or 3-parted with cuneate 

 lobes, the lowest of which are often somewhat stalked, round-toothed : sepals long-])()inted, not 

 bristle-bearing: petals moderately large, deep dull purple. — Spec. iii. 629; Reichenb. Ic. 

 Fl. Germ. v. t. 184, f. 4866 (Ilerodium) ; Trelease, 1. c. 8L— On ballast, Philadelpiiia, 

 Martindale. 



E. BoTKYs, Bertol. With coarse white pubescence: cauline leaves smaller, pinnatifid into 

 oblong broad-based acute serrate segments : sepals mostly short-pointed and tipped with 

 1 or 2 short bristles : petals deep violet. — Amcen. Ital. 35 ; Trelease, 1. c. 81. — Ballast and 

 refuse, various points in California, and at Boston, Mass., Murray. Sometimes flowering 

 when acaulescent and very small in all its parts. 



* * * * Leaves oblong, pinnate or bipinnate : petals rose-purple, small : fruit small, its 

 beak 1^ to 1| inches long; seeds as in the preceding section. Hispid or glandular-villous 

 cespitose Mediterranean species, established in the Southwest and occasional elsewhere. 



B. moschAtum, L'Her. Acaulescent and closely prostrate or soon with ascending branches, 

 mostly stout and glandular: leaflets usually large, short-stalked, ovate to elliptical, serrate, 

 somewhat inci.sely broad-lobed, the terminal cuneately 3- or 5-parted ; stipules large, rather 

 obtu.se: sepals not terminated by long bristles : antheriferous filaments 2-toothed. — L'Her. 

 in Ait. Kew. ii. 414; Willd. Spec. iii. 631 ; Torr. Pac. R. Rep. vii. 8; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. 

 Germ. v. t. 184, f. 4867 (Herodinm) ; Trelease, 1. c. 81 ; Parish, Zoe, i. 8. — California and 

 Lower California, and occasional in the Northern Atlantic States, usually in heavy soil. 



E. cicutArilm, L'Her. Habit of the last, but mostly low and slender, less glandular, often 

 coarsely canescent : leaflets small, nearly sessile, the uppermost confluent, more oblong, 

 incisely pinnatisect with acute usually narrow often toothed lobes; stipules commonly 

 small and acute : sepals with 1 or 2 terminal bristle-like hairs : filaments not toothed. — 

 L'Her. in Ait. Kew. ii. 414; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 116 ; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. v. 21, t. 

 183, f. 4864 (Ihrodium); Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. 136; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 208; Gray, 

 Gen. ii. 130; Trelea.se, 1. c. 82; Parish. Zoe, i. 8. — Vancouver to Lower California, 

 Texas, and Colorado, chiefly in sandy soil, also occasional in the Eastern States. 



