U GERANIUM FAMILY. 



1. Leaves peltate and fleshy, the 5 lobes entire : stems trailing. 

 P. peltatum, IVY-LEAVED P. Generally smooth, the leaf fixed towards 

 the middle, with or without a darkish zone ; flowers pink or varying to white. 



2. Leaves round and crenate, very obscurely many-lobed and with a deep narrow 

 sinus : petals all of one color (scarlet, pink, or varying to white), the two 

 tipper a little narrower than the otlters : stems erect, shrubby and succulent. 

 The two species greatly mixed. 



P. zonale, HORSE-SHOE P. So called from the dark horse-shoe mark or 

 zone, which however is not always present ; smoothish ; petals narrowish. 



P. inquinans, STAINING or SCARLET P. In the unmixed state is soft- 

 downy and clammy, the leaves without the zone ; petals broadly obovate, origi- 

 nally intense scarlet. 



3. Leaves rounded, moderately if at all lolted : branches scarcely succulent: pet- 

 als never scarlet, the two upper more or less larger than the three lower. 



* Leaves sweet-scented, velvety or soft-downy : flowers small : steins or branches 



herbaceous or half herbaceous, spreading or straggling. 



P. capitatum, ROSE-SCENTED P. Softly hairy, with the rose-scented 

 leaves moderately lobed, the lobes short and broad ; peduncle bearing many 

 sessile flowers in a head ; petals rose-purple, barely ^' long. 



P. tomentdsum, PEPPERMINT P. Densely soft-hairy ; branches long 

 and thickish ; leaves rather large, round-heart-shaped and with 5-7 open lobes, 

 velvety-hairy both sides ; flowers on long pedicels in panicled umbels, insignifi- 

 cant ; petals white, the 3 lower a little longer than the calyx. 



P. odoratissimum, NUTMEG-SCENTED P. Branches slender and strag- 

 gling, from a very short scaly stem or base ; leaves rounded and crenate, soft- 

 velvety, small ; flowers on short pedicels, very small ; petals white, scarcely 

 exceeding the calyx. 



* * Leaves not sweet-scented: flowers large, pink, purple, white, frc., the two 



upper petals longer and broader than the three lower and streaked or spotted: 

 shrubby and erect. (All much mixed.) 



P. CUCUllatum, COWLED P. Soft-hairy, the rounded kidney-shaped leaves 

 cupped, soft-downy. 



P. COl'datum, HEART-LEAVED P. Like the last or less hairy, with flat 

 ovate-heart-shaped leaves. 



P. angulbsum, MAPLE-LEAVED P. Harsher-hairy; the leaves rigid, in- 

 clined to be lobed, truncate or even wedge-shaped at the base (scarcely ever 

 heart-shaped), sharply toothed. 



4. Leaves decidedly lolied or cut, in some species compound or decompound, 



# Smooth and pale or glaucous, rounded, palmately 5 7 -cleft. 

 P. grandifldrum, GREAT-FLOWERED P. Shrubby; peduncles bearing 

 about 3 large flowers, with white petals l' long, the two upper larger and ele- 

 gantly veined or variegated with pink or rose-color. 



* * Silky-hoary, pinnately veined and somewhat pinnatifld. 

 P. tricolor, THREE-COLORED P. Low, rather shrubby ; the long-petioled 

 small leaves lance-oblong ; peduncles bearing 2 or 3 showy flowers ; the three 

 lower petals white, the two upper crimson, with a dark spot at their base, and 

 rather smaller, ' long : not common. 



* * * Soft-hoary or velvety, palmately 3-parted, small: no obvious stipules. 

 P. exstipulatum, PEXNY-ROYAL P. Low, rather shrubby ; leaves with 

 the sweet scent of Penny-Royal or Bergamot, ' wide, the lobes wedge-shaped 

 and cut-toothed ; flowers small and insignificant, white. 



* # # * Hairy, roughish, or downy : leaves more or less pinnatifld or pinnately 



compound or the main lobes or divisions pinnatifld, balsamic or strong- 

 scented : stipules present. 



P. quercifolium, OAK-LEAVED P. Shrubby, hairy and glandular ; 

 leaves deeply sinuate-pinnatifid, with wavy-toothed blunt lobe* (the lowest 



