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stipular glands very small; flowers in close terminal clusters; petals about 3 lines long; 
capsule globose. 
4. I, Californicum, Gr. Smooth, glaucous, 6 to 18 inches high; stipular glands 
conspicuous; flowers in small cymes or the lower solitary; petals 4 lines long, capsule 
acute, shorter than the calyx. 
5. S. spergulinum, Gr. Smooth, 6 to 15 inches high; leaves without stipular 
glands; pedicels 3 to 6 lines long, and mostly solitary; sepals slightly glandular, minute; 
capsule obtuse, exceeding the calyx slightly. 
Orpen 15. GHRANIACEZ:. 
Flowers perfect on axillary peduncles, regular (in our species) and symmetrical, the 
parts in fives. Stamens mostly in two sets, those alternate with the petals sometimes 
sterile, Ovary deeply 5-lobed, with a prolonged axis, or 5-celled. : 
§1. Carpels 5, one-seeded, separating at maturity from the long central axis; the styles 
Jorming long twisted tails, 
Fertile stamens 10; tails of the carpels not bearded.............2-00005 Geranium. 1 
Fertile stamens 5; tails of the carpels bearded...........-00ececeeeececs Erodium. 2 
§ 2. Carpels 5, one-seeded, fleshy, Cistinct.... ccc... ececcescecacecers Limnanthes. 3 
§ 3. Carpels combined into a 5-celled Ovary. 2.201... ceecnceccncecnceeenes Ozxalis. 4 
1. GERANIUM, L CRANESBILL, 
Stamens 10 with anthers, a gland behind the base of each of the shorter 5; filamentg 
bearded at the base. Ovary 5-lobed; style 5-lobed at the top; the roundish-oblong carpels 
splitting away from the persistent beaked axis. Leaves palmately lobed and mostly 
opposite, scarious stipules; swollen-jointed stems. 
1. G, Carolinianum, L. Diffusely branched, pubescent; leaves 1 to 2h inches in 
diameter, palmately 5-7-parted, the divisions cleft into linear lobes; petals rose-colored 
equaling the awned sepals, 2 or 3 lines long; carpels hairy; tails half an inch long. 
G, incisum, Nutt., with large purple flowers, grows in the Sierra Nevada, and in 
Humboldt County. 
2. ERODIUM, L’Her. 
Characters as in the last; but the filaments dilated, the 5 opposite to the petals sterile 
and scale-like; carpels attenuate to a sharp bearded base; the tails long bearded on the 
inner side. Leaves commonly pinnate and bipinnately parted or lobed; peduncles 
umbellately 2-several-flowered with a 4-bracted involucre at the base of the pedicels; 
flowers small. 
1. HE. cicutarium, L’Her. (Firanta on Prin-Ciover.) Hairy, much branched 
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