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13. Geranium Bicknellii Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 24: 92. 1897. 



Geranium carolinianum longipes S. Wats. Bot. King's Expl. 50. 1871. 

 Geranium longipes Goodding, Bot. Gaz. 37: 56. 1904. 



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

 branches more or less spreading, with loosed' spreading hairs; leaf-blades thickish, pen- 

 tagonal in outline, or those of the lower leaves rather rounded, 2-7 cm. broad, the main 

 divisions incised or cleft into oblong or lanceolate segments ; petioles, peduncles and ped- 

 icels glandular-pubescent; sepals awn-tipped, the outer ones 7.5-8.5 mm. long, the bodies 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, rather villous, the tip slender, about one third as long as 

 the bod}- ; petals rose-purple, about as long as the sepals ; style-column 16-22 mm. long, 

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



Type locality : Southeastern New York. 



Distribution : Nova Scotia to British Columbia, New York, Montana, and Washington. 



Ii ii si-ration: Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. /. 2245. 



14. Geranium pyrenaicum Burm. f. Sp. Geran. 27. 1759. 



Perennial, the caudex short, scaly. Stems simple below, sometimes tufted, retrorsely 

 villous-hirsute ; leaf-blades orbicular or reuiform-orbicular in outline, those of the basal and 

 the lower cauline 4-9 cm. broad, 5-7-cleft, the division 3-5-lobed ; petioles villous-hirsute 

 and puberulent ; peduncles and pedicels glandular-puberulent ; sepals awnless, 5-6 mm. 

 long, the outer ovate, ciliolate, the inner oblong or elliptic-oblong, ciliate ; petals purple, 

 obcordate, nearly twice as long as the sepals ; style-column 12-15 mm. long, puberulent like 

 the pedicels; carpel-bodies 3-3.5 mm. long, minutely pubescent; seeds granular. 



Type locality : Pyrenees. 



Distribution : Jamaica, and locally in the eastern United States, and in California. Natur- 

 alized from Europe. 



Illustrations : Fl. Dan. pi. 2240 ; Curt. Fl. Lond. 1 : />/. 121. 



15. Geranium retrorsum VHer.; DC. Prodr. 1: 644. 1824. 



Geranium pilosum Forst. f.; DC. Prodr. 1 : 642. 1824. Not G. pilosum Cav. 1788. 



Perennial, by a large tap-root, the caudex branched. Stems 1-6 dm. long, ultimately 

 branched, more or less retrorse-hirsute ; leaf-blades 1.5-4 cm. wide, finely hirsute, 3-5- 

 parted, the divisions mainly cleft or incised, the ultimate segments linear to lanceolate or 

 ovate ; pedicels pubescent with retrorse mostly appressed hairs ; sepals awn-tipped, the 

 outer ones 5.5-6 mm. long, the bodies ovate to ovate-lanceolate, commonly 5-ribbed, finely 

 hirsute ; petals purple, 6-9 mm. long, deeply notched at the apex ; style-column 9-11 mm. 

 long, minutely pubescent ; carpel-bodies about 3 mm. long, finely hirsute ; seeds minutely 

 reticulate. 



Type locality : New Zealand. 



Distribution : California. Naturalized from Australasia. 



16. Geranium glabratum (Hook.) Small. 



? Geranium parviflorum Willd. Kmim. 716. 1S09. 



Geranium disseclum glabratum Hook. Handb. Fl. New Zeal. 36. 1864. 



Perennial, the caudex more or less branched. Stems spreading or decumbent, 1-7 dm. 

 long, ultimately widely branched, pubescent with usually scattered retrorse hairs or nearly 

 glabrous ; leaf-blades 2-4 cm. wide, sparingly pubescent, 3-5-parted, the divisions cuneate, 

 often broadly so, mostly with 3 broad teeth at the apex, the terminal tooth very broadly 

 ovate to reniform ; pedicels retrorse-pubescent, the hairs rather appressed ; sepals awn- 

 tipped, the outer ones 4.5-5.5 mm. long, the bodies ovate, 3-ribbed, ultimately nearly 

 glabrous, except for a few hairs about the ribs ; petals purple, cuneate, 5-6 mm. long, 

 nearly rounded at the apex ; style-column 11-12 mm. long, minutely pubescent ; carpel- 

 bodies about 3 mm. long, somewhat hirsute ; seeds reticulate. 



Type locality : New Zealand. 



Distribution : California. Naturalized from Australasia. 



17. Geranium tenue Hanks, sp. nov. 

 Perennial, the caudex often sparingly branched. Stems solitary or several together, 

 the first internode greatly elongate, retrorsely pubescent with few hairs ; leaf-blades 



