Part 1, 1907] GERANIACEAE 9 



escence open, few-flowered ; pedicels copiously villous-hirsute, the terminal glands of the 

 hairs inconspicuous ; petals pale rose-purple ; seeds reticulate. 



Type locality: St. Martinsville, Louisiana. 



Distribution : Louisiana and Texas. 



9. Geranium carolinianum L. Sp. PI. 682. 1753. 



Geranium atrum Moench, Meth. 285. 1794. 



Geranium lanuginosum Jacq. Hurt. Schoenb. 2 : S. 1797. 



Annual or biennial. Stems simple below and erect or branched at the base, the branches 

 ascending or rarely spreading, more or less glandular-pubescent; leaf-blades 3-6 cm. 

 broad, reniform or orbicular-reniform in outline, slightly angular, the main divisions cleft 

 or parted, with oblong or linear-oblong lobes ; peduncles and pedicels relatively short, 

 forming a congested inflorescence ; sepals awn-tipped, the outer ones 6-10 mm. long, the 

 bodies ovate, sometimes broadly so, the awn-tips rather long ; petals pink or whitish, about 

 as long as the sepals; style-column 12-1S mm. long at maturity, with somewhat spreading, 

 often glandular hairs ; carpel-bodies 3-3.5 mm. long, pilose with erect hairs ; seeds reticu- 

 late. 



Type locality : Carolina. 



Distribution : Throughout southern Canada and the United States ; also in northern Mexico, 

 Bermuda, and Jamaica. 



Illustrations : Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. 2 : pi. 140, as G. lanuginosum ; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 

 f. 2244. 



10. Geranium laxum Hanks, sp. nov. 



Annual or biennial, resembling G. dissect urn in habit. Stems simple at the base, or 

 branched, the branches loosely spreading, 3-6 dm. tall, retrorsely pubescent; leaf-blades 

 reniform in outline, often somewhat angular, 2.5-5 cm. broad, the main divisions parted 

 into linear segments, those of the upper leaves conspicuously more finely dissected than 

 those of the lower; pedicels villous-hirsute with glandular hairs; sepals awn-tipped, the 

 outer 7-8 mm. long, the bodies ovate, glandular-pubescent, the tip about one half as long 

 as the body; petals purple, about as long as the sepals; style-column 12-13 mm. long, 

 glandular-villous ; carpel-bodies 2-2.5 mm. long, hirsute; seeds reticulate. 



Type collected at Oyhut, Chehalis County, Washington, July 8, 1897, Frank H. Lamb 1263. 



Distribution : Washington to California. 



11. Geranium columbinum L,. Sp. PI. 682. 1753. 



Annual or biennial. Stems branched at the base, the branches ascending or diffusely 

 spreading, 1-8 dm. long, sparingly pubescent ; leaf-blades angular in outline, 2-4 cm. broad, 

 long-petioled, the main divisions parted into linear segments ; petioles retrorsely pubescent ; 

 peduncles and pedicels pubescent like the petioles, usually longer than the leaves ; sepals 

 awn-tipped, the outer ones 10-12 mm. long, the bodies lanceolate, 3-ribbed, the slender 

 tips about 2 mm. long ; petals rose-purple, somewhat longer than the sepals ; style-column 

 fully 15 mm. long, strigillose ; carpel-bodies 3-3.5 mm. long, smooth and glabrous; seeds 

 prominently reticulate. 



Type locality : France. 



Distribution : New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Dakota. Naturalized from 

 Europe. 



Illustrations: Cav. Diss. pi. 82; Fl. Dan./>/. 1222 ; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. /. 2242 ; E. & 

 P. Nat. Pfl. 3*: 2./. 1 H. 



12. Geranium nemorale Suksd. Deuts. Bot. Monats. 16: 222. 1892. 



Annual or biennial. Stems usually simple at the base, erect or nearly so, 1-3 dm. long, 

 retrorsely pubescent; leaf-blades thin, orbicular-reniform in outline and slightly angular, 

 2-5 cm. broad, the main divisions incised or cleft into ovate or oblong segments ; petioles and 

 peduncles retrorsely pubescent ; pedicels delicately glandular-pubescent ; sepals awn-tipped, 

 the outer ones 6-8 mm. long, the bodies elliptic or ovate-elliptic, pubescent like the pedicel, 

 the tip slender; petals purple, slightly longer than the sepals; style-column 15-20 mm. 

 long, minutely glandular-pubescent; carpel-bodies 3-3.5 mm. long, sparingly hirsute; 

 seeds reticulate. 



Type locality' : West Klickitat County, Washington. 



Distribution : Washington. 



