Genus 2. 



GERANIUM FAMILY. 



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Geranium pyrenaicum L., of Europe, a perennial with much smaller flowers, the sepals obtusish, 

 has been found in waste places in Quebec and Pennsylvania. 



2. Geranium maculatum L. Wild or 

 Spotted Crane's-bill. Fig. 2653. 



Geranium maculatum L. Sp. PI. 68i. 1753. 



Perennial by a thick rootstock, pubes- 

 cent with spreading or retrorse hairs, 

 erect, simple, or branching above, i°-2° 

 high. Basal leaves long-petioled, nearly 

 orbicular, broadly cordate or reniform, 

 3'-6' wide, deeply 3-,5-parted, the divisions 

 obovate, cuneate, variously toothed and 

 cleft ; stem-leaves 2, opposite, shorter- 

 petioled, otherwise similar to the basal 

 ones ; peduncles 1-5, elongated, generally 

 bearing a pair of leaves at the base of the 

 umbellate inflorescence ; ultimate pedicels 

 i'-2' long; flowers rose-purple, I'-ll' 

 broad; sepals awn-pointed; petals woolly 

 at the base; beak of the fruit I'-iF long; 

 carpels pubescent; seed reticulate. 



In woods, Maine and Ontario to Manitoba, 

 Georgia, Alabama and Nebraska. Recorded 

 from Newfoundland. Alum-root or bloom. 

 Crowfoot. American kino-root. Shame-face. 

 Chocolate-flower. Rockweed. Sailor's-knot. 

 April-July. 



3. Geranium sibiricum L. Siberian 

 Crane's-bill. Fig. 2654. 



Geranium sibiricum L. Sp. PI. 683. I753' 



Annual, villous-pubescent, freely branched, 

 decumbent or ascending, i°-4l° high. Leaves 

 deeply 3-5-parted, 2'-2i' broad, nearly orbicu- 

 lar, or cordate-reniform, the divisions oval- 

 lanceolate, cleft or toothed; peduncles slender, 

 l-flowered, 2'-3' long, 2-bracted near the mid- 

 dle ; flowers nearly white, 3"-4" broad ; sepals 

 oval, awned ; beak of the fruit canescent, 7"-9" 

 long, tipped with a short prolongation ; lobes 

 of the capsule puberulent or hairy, seed mi- 

 nutely reticulate. 



Abundant along roadsides in the northern part 

 of New York City. Adventive from Asia. Some 

 of the pedicels are rarely 2-flowered. June-Sept. 



4. Geranium columbinum L. Long-stalked 

 Crane's-bill. Fig. 2655. 



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



Annual, slender, decumbent or prostrate, slightly 

 hispid-pubescent with whitish appressed hairs. Leaves 

 I'-ii' in diameter, pedately deeply 5-9-divided into nar- 

 row, mostly linear variously cleft segments ; petioles 

 very slender, those of the lower and basal leaves often 

 S'-6' long; peduncles also slender, longer than the upper 

 leaves, 2-flowered; pedicels i'-3' long; flowers purple, 

 about 4" broad ; sepals ovate, awn-pointed, enlarging 

 in fruit ; petals notched ; capsule-lobes nearly glabrous, 

 keeled, not rugose ; beak 6"-io" long, hispid ; seeds 

 deeply pitted. 



In fields and along roadsides, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 Maryland and Virginia. Also in South DSkota. Natural- 

 ized or adventive from Europe. Native also of northern 

 Asia. May-July. 



