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THE FLORA. 



at last separating into 5, long-styled, 

 1 -seeded carpels. Styles smooth in- 

 side, finally curling from the hase 

 upward, but still adhering at top to 

 the axis. Herbs with forked stems, 

 much divided leaves. Flowers 

 nostly purple. 



Petals entire, twice as long as the 



awned sepals .... 1 , 2 

 Petals notched or 2-lohed, short. 

 Leaves palmately 5-7-lobed. Pods 

 hairy . J.3, 4 



1 G. macula'tum. Spotted G. Erect. Lvs. 

 palmately 3-5-parted. Flowers large 

 (1* broad), showy. Sepals tnucro- 

 nate. Spring, c. 



tia'num. 



use, weak. Lvs. primately 3-parted 

 to the base. Flowers small (7" 

 broad). Sepals mucronate. June. 



3 G. pusil'lum. Dwarf G. Diffuse. 



Sepals veiuless. Leaves parted 

 into 5-7 linear lobes, lobes 

 3-cleft. Fields and hills. July. 



4 G. Carol 'nia 'num. Stems diffuse. Se- 



paln with an awn. Lvs. parted 



into 5 wedge-oblong, many-cleft 



lobes. Fields. July. 

 Flg.W\. Herb Robert, leaves, flowers, and fruit; 3. fruit enlarged, showing one carpel on 

 tte elastic style; 4, cross-section of a seed, showing the large embryo filling the whol 

 space ; 2, the 10 stamens. 



Obsewation.fhe pupil will perceive by the table above, that the parlor " genv 

 niums" belong to the genus Pelargo' nium. 



ORDER XXXII. OXALIDACEvE. Wood Sorrels. 



Low herbs with a sour juice, and alternate, compound leaves ; with 

 flowers regular and symmetrical, 5-sepaled and 5-petaled ; 



