NATURAL inSTOIiY OF PLANTS. 



to the leaves or clearly terminal.^ Some hundred species" arc kno^Yu ; 

 but on account of being reckoned twice over the number is some- 

 times made a hundred and fifty, or more. They inhabit uU the 

 temperate regions of the world, and the more elevated and cooler 

 parts of the mountains in trojiical and subtrojjical regions. 



Erodimu^' formerly united to the Geraniums, has been artificially 

 separated as a genus because its oppositipetalous stamens are sterile 

 and reduced to squamiform filaments. Their fruits present diff'erences 

 of little value'* and then- organs of vegetation are the same. Some 

 fifty species are described'"' inhabiting the temperate regions. Some 

 arc foimd in South Africa and Australia. 



Monson'm^ numbering some fifteen species,'' inhabiting South and 

 Eastern Africa, and tropical Western Asia, consists on the contrary 

 of Geraniums with fifteen stamens Avhich seem to form, at the adult 

 age, five altornipctalous bundles. In each bundle is a c(!utral stamen 

 larger than the rest and superposed to a sepal-, the lateral 

 stamens forming a pair at first oppositipetalous.^ This genus, A^'hich 

 has been divided into thi-ee sections,'' belongs to Southern and Eastern 

 Africa, and to the East. 



' Whence it results that wlien the inflorescence 

 is lateral or oppositifolius, it is often drawn up 

 and raised. 



2 Qw.DUs. t. 70-07, 121-12G(part).— Reiciih. 

 Ic. Fl. Genu. t. 187-19S.— H. B. K. Kor. Gen. H 

 S/xc. V. 229.— Gken. et Godr. Fl. tie Fr. i. 297, 

 313.— SiiiTii. Fl. Grwc. t. 659-661.— Stev. in 

 Mem. Soe. Hist. Nat. Mosc. iv. 50, t. 5.— Boiss. 

 Fl. Or. i. 869.— Jacquem. Foi/. Hot., t. 37, 38.- 

 Wall. Fl. As. liar. t. 209.— Wight, III. t. 59.— 

 Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 295. — Hakv. et Son'd. Fl. 

 Cap.i. 257.— Hook. r. Fl. Antarct. t. 5; Man. 

 N.-Zcal. Fl. 35.— Hook. lean. t. 198.— A. S. H. 

 Fl. Bras. Mer. i. t. 20. — C. Gay, Fl. Chil. i. 387. 

 — Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 290.— A. Guay, Man. 

 cd. 5, 107 ; Unit. St. F.VJJI. F.vp. Sot. i. 308, t. 

 29-31.— Chai'.m. Fl. S. Unit. St. 65.— Walv. 

 liip. i. 447; ii. 819; v. 389; Ann. i. 139; ii. 

 234 ; iv. 395 ; vii. 483. 



■"L'liEU. Geranioloff. t. 1-fi. — DC. Prodr. i. 

 G44.— Spacu, Suit, a Baffon, iii. 303.— J[eissx. 

 Gcii. 57.— Endl. Gen. n. 0045.— A. Gray, Gen. 

 III. t. 151. -B. H. Gen. 272, u. 5.— H. Bn. in 

 Payer Fam. Nat. 400. — Scohpacium, Eckl. et 

 Zeyii. Eniim. 59. — ? Isopetalum Sweet, Geran. 

 t. 226 (ex B. H. loc. cit. 273). 



■* The tails wliich .sujiport the cells after de- 

 hiscence are generally coNt-red inside with long 



yellow hairs, 



5 Cav. Diss. t. 76-97.— Reiciih, Ic. Fl. Germ. 

 t. 183-186 (2f(Torf/K«;).— SiRTH. Fl. Grecc. t. 

 C51-G58.— Gren. et Goiir. Fl. de Fr. i. 307, 313. 

 — Jaui!. et Spach, 111. PL Or. t. 189, 203, 204. 

 — BoLss. Fl. Or. i. 884.— Hauv. et Soxi). Fl. 

 Cap. i. 258.— Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 292.— Benth. 

 Fl. Austral, i. 297.— A. Gray, Man. ed. 5, 108 ; 

 Unit. St. Fxpl. Ejp. But. i. 317.— A. S. H. Fl. 

 Bras. Mer. i. t. 19.— AValp. Ilrp. i. 445 ; ii. 818 ; 

 V. 379 ; Ann. i. 137, 965, ii. 233 ; iv. 392. 



"> L. Mantiss. n. 1268.— J. Gen. 269.— L'her. 

 Geranioloff. t.41, 42. — DC. Prodr. i. 638.— Endl. 

 Gen. n, 6049.— Pa yeu, Oryanoff. 62, t. 12.— B. H. 

 Gen. 271, n. 2. — Hulopctaliim, Kl. in linntea, x. 

 i2S.—Sareocaiilon, B. H. Oen. 272, n. 3. 



' C.vv. Diss. t. 74, 75, fig. 1, 2 ; 113, fig. 1.— 

 fSwEET, Geran. t. 77, 199, 273.— Wight, Icon. t. 

 1074.— Boiss. Fl. Or. i. 897.— Hauv. et Sond. 

 Fl. Cap. i. 254, 256 {Sarcueaiilon).— Oliv. Fl. 

 Prop. Afr. i. 289.— Wali'. Ilep.i. 451 ; Ann. ii. 

 236. 



>* Voy. Payeh, Ori/anoff. 60. — A. Dickson in 

 Adii.isonia, iv. 193, 200. 



' 1. Ilolopetahim (DC). Petals entire or cmar- 

 ginate leaves dentate or creniJate. — 2. Odonto- 

 jietalam [B. H.). Petals dentate. Leaves lohed 

 or multifid. Sarcocuitlon (DC. Prodr. i, 638). 



