GERANIACEAE (GERANIUM FAMILY) 257 
preceding species, a little more than a half-inch long, faintly five- 
sided, with tapering point. Seeds compressed ovoid, brown, trans- 
versely wrinkled. 
Means of control the same as for Wood Sorrel. 
SMALL-FLOWERED CRANE’S-BILL 
Geranium pustllum, Burm. f. 
Introduced. Annual or biennial. Propagates by seed. 
Time of bloom: May to September. 
Seed-time: June to October. 
Range: Ontario to British Columbia, southward to North Caro- 
lina, Nebraska, and Utah. 
Habitat: Cultivated ground, lawns and yards, roadsides, and waste 
places. 
This plant is frequently troublesome in lawns and its seeds are 
too often an impurity of the mixed grass seeds sold for making such 
green turf. Its seed capsules open elas- 
tically, scattering its progeny for several 
feet; lawn-mowers also help in its dis- 
tribution, and soon the grass begins to 
be “run out” by the weed, especially 
when the turf is rather thin and the 
soil in need of enrichment. (Fig. 181.) 
It has a slender taproot, fringed with 
thready rootlets. Stem three inches to 
a foot or more in length, branching from 
the base, spreading or prostrate, softly 
hairy. Leaves rounded or kidney- 
shaped in outline but deeply five- to 
seven-lobed, the segments toothed at 
the tips, finely downy-hairy. Flowers 
in pairs, on short peduncles in the axils 
or opposite to them, about a quarter- 
inch broad, pinkish purple, the five 
petals notched at their edges; five 
sepals, nearly as long as the petals, 
Fig. 181. — Small-flowered 
Crane’s-bill (Geranium pu- 
sillum). xX}. 
sharp-pointed but without awns; stamens five; the five united, 
persistent styles form the “crane’s-bill,” which tips the five- 
