Fl(£rkea. (;I:KA.\IA» K.K. 3(^3 



3. PELARGONIUM, \:\hv. (Name- from Tr«A«,r/<A. a »ti.rk, for ilu- 

 same reason as in Krodium.) — At lcnj,'lli caul.Mtni ln-rlib or low hliruWi. with 

 leaves and stipules as in Eiodinm. l>Mo\virs usually cluhlinMl on roinnionlv 

 elongated iR'duncles. — Gnaniid. t. 7-."5.i, et<-. ; H.-ntii. A: ll.iok. Gen. i. 'Il.\; 

 Keiche in Engl. «& Prantl, Nat. rHan/tnf. iii. Al). I, lu, — Mohtlv niilive» of 

 Africa and Australia, including the so-called Gernniunis of cullivalicMi. 



P. Anckj's, L'lk-r. Ces|iitosil_v uprwuling from u Hi.iut ri>ot. with Hubx'fuiili- Klnn'liilnr pii»*»- 

 cenie above : leaves rijiind-reiiifuriii, creiuilatc ami olimurely cri-naU-iy IoIm-.I. iii<.r« or If** 

 crisped, usually much slmrtir than ih.ir peliohs: Ihiwern nilin-r deiuM-ly uinlK-lli-d, miiiuie. 

 deep violet : petals al.oui equal to ami pedicels a little longer than the nh..rt w-al.n.iw m-|>iiU : 

 beak of fruit about 6 lines long. — L'ller. in Ait. Kew. ii. VM; .Iiici|. ('olloct. iv. IM, l ^2, 

 f. 3; A. Kiistwood, Krythea, iv. 34. — Oakland, California, Miss E>istwiHMl. A chaiice 

 iiitroductinii. (Adv. from S. Afr.) 



4. TROPuSOLUM, L. Nastiktilm. (Nam.- fnmi r/^oTrato,, a t.ij:ii of 

 victory, from the shield-shaped leaves.) — (limliing or s|)reading slendcr-ht«-niin<-d 

 pungent herbs with alternate frecjuently peltate round leaves. StipuU-s wanting 

 or minute. Flowers solitary in the axils, mostly on slender pi<luncles. — Gen. 

 no. 323; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 274; Keiche, 1. c. 2<; ; Huchenau iu Engl. 

 Jalirb. XV. 180-2o*J, xxii. 157-183. — Natives of South America. 



T. mAji;s, L. StrajfglintT, glabrous: leaves rouml, peltate, rep.ind : Hnwers large, vari">n>ly 

 yellow or reddish, the lower petals fimbriate at biuse. — Spec. i. 345 ; ('urti«. It.it. .M.ng u 

 23; (ireene, Fl. Frauds, i. 99. — A I'eruvian plant, escaping from cultivatiim in California 

 Jide Greene, 1. c. 



5. FLCfcRKEA, AVilM. (Namd after Elorkc, a G.rman botanist,) — 

 Pungent, soft-stemmed annual herbs with alternate once-thrice-pinnately disserted 

 petioled mostly exstipulate leaves. — Neue Schr. Ges. Nat. Fr. lierlin, iii. HH; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 210; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 1.31». t. l.'.l ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. 

 i. 275 ; Baill. Hist. PI. v. 20 ; Trelease, Mem. Boston 8oc. Nat. Hist. iv. H.*) ; 

 Reiche in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. PHanzenf. iii. Ab. .'». 137. — Exclusively North 

 American ; the type of the genus trimerous, while the other species constitute 

 Limnanthes, a scarcely .separable genus which, however, is still maintained by 

 some authors. 



* Flowers trimerous: petals oldong, entire, subacute, shorter than the sepaK oj>on in asti- 

 vation : stigmas little enlarged : pediuicles bent Ijelow the flower. — Flirrkra proper. 

 F. proserpinacoides, Wm.i.d. 1. c 449. (False MKitMAin.) (il:ibn.usw<'.-»k stemmed. 



a spun to a foot liiirh : .livisions of leaves 3 to mostly .5. linear, lanre.date or . K-cjuiion.il Ir 



ellijitical, remote, entire : petals white, not over a line long : fruit subghdnme, I^ to a lines 



long, loosely tuberculate. — Lindl. J.mr. Bot. i. 1, t. 113; Torr. & (Jray. Fl. i. 210; (Jray. 



1. 0. ; Trelea.se, 1. c. 8.5. F. Inmstn's, T'ers. Syn. i. 393. F. uh'fjiiioso. Muhl. Cat. 36. /'. /«/i«. 



tris. \utt. r.en. i. 229. Xertn'x piiinntn, I'ursh, Fl. i. 239. ('nfmmhfi pitinnlo, S<-h»U. Sy»t. rii. 



l.'jVO—Can.ida to Oregon, south in the East to renn.sylvania and llliiioisi. ami in the West 



to California and Utah. 



» ♦ Flowers 4-6-morons : pot.ils oblong- to ol>ovnte-cnnenfe, tninr.ito or em.irginnle. o.n 

 volute : stigmas small, capitate : peduncles mostly straight. — I.imnuuthrs. 

 4— Flowers 4-merons : petals short ami narmw. 

 F. Macounii, Trki.kase, n. comb. fJlnbrous, 2 or 3 inches high : divi«ion« nf le.ireo .5 to 



9. remote, small, ovate, mostly .3-cleft, with acute bdies : sepals nither obtuiw potaU while, 



U to 2 lines long: nutlets obovoi.i. 1^ lines long, with v.-ry prominent tulwrcW — A**- 



nnnlhes Maronnii, Trelea.se, 1. c. 8."). — Vancouver Island, Mactiun. 



