geeaniacejE. (geranium family.) 107 



5-celled loculicidal pod or a berry. Seeds 2 or few in eact cell, with a 

 straight embryo in a little fleshy albumen. — Leaves compound : juice 

 sour. 



6. Oxalls. Sl^yles 5, separate. Pod oblong : the valves not falling away. Leaflets usually 

 obcordate. 



1. GERANIUM, L. Cranesbill. 



Stamens 10 (sometimes only 5 in No. 2), all with perfect anthers, the 5 

 longer with 'glands at their base (alternate with the petals). Styles smooth 

 inside in fruit when they separate from the axis. — Stems forking. Peduncles 

 1-3-flowered. (An old Greek name, from yepavos, a crane; the long fruit- 

 bearing beak thought to resemble the bill of that bird.) 



* Rootstock perennial. 

 1. G. macul&tum, L. (Wild Cranesbill. ) Stem erect, hairy; 

 leaves about 5-parted, the wedge-shaped divisions lobed and cut at the end ; 

 sepals slender-pointed ; petals entire, light purple, bearded on the claw (J' 

 long). — Open woods and fields. April- July. — Leaves somewhat blotched 

 with whitish as they grow old. 



* * Boot biennial or annual : flowers small, 



2. G. Carolini&uum, L. (Carolina C.) Stems at first erect, dif- 

 fusely branched from the base, hairy ; leaves about 5-parted, the divisions cleft 

 and cut into numerous oblong-linear lobes ; peduncles and pedicels short ; 

 sepals aion-pointed, as long as the emarginate (pale rose-color) petals ; carpels 

 hairy ; seeds ovoid-oblong, very minutely reticulated. — Barren soil and waste 

 places : common. May -Aug. — Depauperate forms, except by the seeds, are 

 hardly distinguishable from 



3. G. DissECTUM, L. (Cut-leaved C.) More slender and spreading, 

 with narrower lobes to the leaves, and smaller red-purple petals notched at the 

 end ; seeds short-ovoid or globular, finely and strongly reticulated. — Waste grounds, 

 scarce. (Nat. from Eu.) 



4. G. columbInum, L. (Long-stalked C.) Minutely hairy, with 

 very slender decumbent stems ; leaves .') - 7-parted and cut into narrow linear 

 lobes; peduncles and pedicels flli/brm and elongated; sepals awned, about equal- 

 ling the purple petals, enlarging after fiowering ; carpels glabrous ; seeds nearly 

 as in No. 3. — Along the Susquehanna, Lancaster Co., &c., Prof. Porter. 

 Alexandria, Virginia, A. H. Curtiss. June, July. (Nat. from Eu.) 



5. G. PUstLLUM, L. (Small-flowered C.) Stems procumbent, slender, 

 minutely pub«*cent ; leaves rounded hidney-form, 5 - 7-parted, the divisions 

 wedge-shaped, mostly 3-lobed ; sepals aumless, about as long as the (purplish) 

 petals ; seeds smooth. — Waste places. New York and Massachusetts : rare. (Nat 

 from Eu.) 



6. G. Hobertiimum, L. (Herb Robert.) Sparsely hairy, diffiise; 

 strong-scented, leaves 3-divided or pedately 5-divided, the divisions twice pinna- 

 tifid: sepals awned, shorter than the (red-purple) petals; pods wrinUed ; seeds 

 smooth. — Moist woods and shaded ravines: common northward. June -Oct. 

 (Eu.) 



