GERANIUM FAMILY. 71 
The flax crop is one which involves a good deal of troublesome, disa- 
greeable labor, and, without being profitable, is generally believed to be 
injurious to the soil : an opinion as old as the time of ire hey aie says 
‘ Urit enim Ling campum seges, urit avene .’’—GrORG 
or, as rendered by Sotheby, 
: “ Oats and the Flazen harvest burn the ground.” 
The seeds of this Lop hting ry yielding a most valuable drying oil, used 
in Loree yee one of the best mucilaginous drinks, for coughs, and 
dysenteric affectio 
Orper XIV. GERANIA’CE,. (Geranium Famtty.) 
Mostly herbs wit wi oui ge hypogynous, penta’ us flowers. — mbricated. 
Petals cony: atin mens slightly tonadelphous a a pte the altern shorter. 
, adhering to a central prolonged — from which they secariad on mmounie by 
curling up and aerrin with them the mall 1 seeded pods. Seeds without albumen. 
Herbs, metimes shr Sai plants with opposite or alternate, stipulate, scented leaves 
and po ete 
The ornamental halt: -shrubby plants so common in collections of green-house plants 
and usually called Geraniums, belong to the genus PELARGONIUM, 
z GERA’NIUM, £. Cranes-Bii. 
Geranos, a crane ; the beaked rey giao age a a bill. "4 
Styles cO- 
from ue fae not. ieee in ripe 
steal Stem ie spt ig above; leaves 3- 8 
a. petals entire, twice as the calyx. 
GERANIUM. lene 
Perennial. -18 inches high, hai Leaves 2= long, the divisions lobed 
and cut at the — bicichad with whitish as ia thay grow « oid, the eee on petioles 36 or 
pe os in tlie ” those of the stem on much realy tioles and the upper — 
purple, Par ap pala corym " Paale Dearden on the cla 
sods and. mon. April aly. 
oe The = lat is we sebesie as a weed, but is introduced here 
valuable medicinal prppersies it ae one of the 
best ast 
Oregon it has 
known as “ pin weed.” 
