GERANIUM FAMILY. Geraniaceae. 



GERANIUM FAMILY. Geraniaceae. 



Not a large family, herbs, of temperate regions; leave 

 lobed or compound, usually with stipules; flowers perfect 

 sepals and petals usually five and stamens five or ten 

 ovary superior; fruit a capsule. 



There are many kinds of Geranium; stems with swollei 

 joints; stipules papery; five glands on the receptacle 

 alternating with the petals; stamens ten, five long am 

 five short, filaments united at base; ovary with a bea! 

 formed by the five-cleft style, and becoming a capsule 

 which splits open elastically, the style-divisions becomin 

 tails on the seeds. The Greek name means "crane," i 

 allusion to the long beak of the capsule, and these plant 

 are often called Crane's-bill. Cultivated Geraniums ar 

 Pelargoniums, from South Africa. 



In the Sierra woods, and along Yosemit 

 Wild Geranium 



Gerdnium indsum roadsides, in summer we see the purphsl 

 Pink pink blossoms and nodding buds of thi 



Spring, summer attractive plant, resembling the Wil 

 West Geranium of the East, growing from thicl 



perennial roots, with hairy, branching stems, from one t 

 two feet high. The hairy leaves, with three or five 

 toothed lobes, are fragrant like cultivated geraniums; th 

 flowers, over an inch across, are hairy inside, the petal 

 veined with magenta. They are occasionally white an 

 the plants vary in size and hairiness. G. furcatum, of th 

 Grand Canyon, has magenta petals, which turn back more 



This has similar flowers, but is a fine 

 Wild Geranium lant f ormin g l arge thrifty-lookin 

 Gerdnium . . .. , ,. 



Fremdntii clumps, one or two feet across, of slight! 



Pink thickish leaves, dark green on the uppe 



Spring, summer side and paler, with prominent veins, o 



Southwest, and the under the root-leaves with abot 



Utah, Ida., Col., . .. . . 



New Mex seven, main divisions, the stem-leave 



three- to five-cleft, each clump of leave 

 with several tall, slightly downy flower-stalks springin 

 from it. The calyxes and buds are downy and the flower 

 bright pink or rose-purple, delicately veined. This grow 

 in somewhat moist ground, at the edges of fields 

 woody roadsides and on mountain slopes, and is 

 the handsomest of its clan. 



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