GERANIUM FAMILY 
GERANIACEAE 
As now restricted by the leading botanists the 
Geranium family is a small group of which the 
common Wild Geranium is a typical example. 
These are herbaceous plants in which the alternate 
or opposite leaves are almost always provided 
with stipules and in which the flowers have all 
the parts regularly arranged. There are usually 
five sepals and five petals, with five or more 
stamens and a single pistil in which the ovary 
commonly has five lobes and the style is tipped 
with five stigmas. 
WiLp Geranium. The common Wild Gera- 
nium or Spotted Crane’s-bill is a widely dis- 
tributed plant, occurring in the East from New- 
foundland to Georgia and extending westward 
beyond the Great Lakes. It is a perennial, sending 
up stems and leaves from the thickened rootstock 
early in spring. The magenta-pink flowers begin 
to appear about the middle of spring and continue 
until the middle of summer, being: most abundant 
during May. When each blossom first opens the 
anthers shed the pollen, so that it is practically 
all gone before the stigmas unfold. If you will 
examine a few flowers of different ages you can 
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