22 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA (.Volume 25 



1. Erodium texanum A. Gray, Gen. 111. 2: 130. 1849. 

 Leaf-blades ovate or deltoid-ovate, 1.5-5 em. long, crenate-dentate and 3-5-lobed, 

 cordate at the base, the basal and lower cauline long-petioled ; peduncles and pedicels 

 canescent with short glandless hairs ; sepals minutely awn-tipped, canescent, the outer 

 10.5-13 mm. long, the bodies oblong or nearly so ; petals purple, much longer than the 

 sepals or sometimes much reduced in size; style-column 4-6 cm. long; carpel-bodies not 

 truncate, and about 1 mm. broad at the top. 



Type locality : Texas. 



Distribution : Texas to middle California and Lower California. 



Illustration : A. Gray, Cen. 111. pi. 151. 



2. Erodium macrophyllum H. & A. Bot. Beech. Voy. 327. 1837. 



Leaf-blades reniform, orbicular-reniform or nearly triangular in outline, 2.5-6 cm. 



long, crenate and often shallowly several-lobed, except the upper cauline, long-petioled ; 



peduncles and pedicels glandular-hirsute ; sepals minutely awn-tipped, glandular-hirsute, 



the outer 11-16 mm. long, the bodies elliptic ; petals mainly white, slightly longer than the 



sepals; style-column 4-5 cm. long; carpel-bodies truncate and 2.5-4 mm. broad at the top. 



Type locality : California. 



Distribution: Oregon, California, and Lower California. 



3. Erodium californicum Greene, Fl. Fran. 99. 1891. 

 Leaf-blades reniform to cordate-ovate, 2.5-5 cm. long, crenate and shallowly several- 

 lobed, mainly long-petioled ; peduncles canescent ; pedicels glandular-hirsute ; sepals 

 minutely awn-tipped, canescent and obscurely glandular, the outer 11-13 mm. long, the 

 bodies elliptic ; petals' rose-red or purple, somewhat longer than the sepals ; style-column 

 3-4 cm. long; carpel-bodies truncate and 2-3 mm. broad at the top. 



Type locality : Berkeley hills and eastward in the Mt. Diablo range. 

 Distribution: Middle California. 



4. Erodium Botrys Bertol. Amoen. Ital. 35. 1819. 



Leaf-blades mainly oblong, 1-9 cm. long, those of the basal leaves crenate, those of the 



cauline pinnatifid, with the segments toothed or again pinuatifid ; stems bristly-hirsute ; 



peduncles and pedicels glandular-hirsute ; sepals minutely awn-tipped, glandular-pubescent, 



the outer 10.5-12 mm. long, or smaller in depauperate forms, the bodies oblong or nearly 



so ; petals purple, surpassing the sepals ; style-column 6-10 cm. long ; carpel-bodies not 



truncate at the top. 



Type locality : Rome, Italy. 



Distribution : California. "Naturalized from Europe. 



5. Erodium moschatum (Burm. f.) L'Her. ; Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. 2 : 414. 1789. 



Geranium moschatum Burm. f. Sp. Geran. 29. 1759. 



Leaves 10-25 cm. long or sometimes shorter ; blades pinnately divided, the segments 

 ovate or oblong-ovate, 1-3 cm. long, toothed or pinnately cleft, the lobes toothed ; peduncles 

 and pedicels glandular-pubescent ; sepals with short subulate tips destitute of bristle-like 

 appendages, the outer 6-7 mm. long, the bodies oblong or elliptic-oblong; petals slightly 

 longer than the sepals ; anther-bearing filaments 2-toothed ; style-column 3.5-4.5 cm. long, 

 puberulent. 



Type locality : Europe. 



Distribution : California and Lower California, and localhy in the eastern United States. 



Illustration : Baxter, Brit. Bot. pi. 362. 



6. Erodium cicutarium (L>) I/Her. ; Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 414. 1789. 



Geranium cicutarium L. Sp. PI. 680. 1753. 



1 Eiodnon moranense H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 5 : 229. 1822. 



Leaves 5-12 cm. long ; blades pinnately divided, the segments oblong to ovate, pin- 

 natifid or incisely toothed ; peduncles and pedicels more or less hirsute, rarely glandular ; 

 sepals with short tips, which are furnished with 1 or 2 bristle-like appendages, the outer 



