GERANIUM MACULATUM.— PASSAIC FALLS. 43 



GERANIUM MACULATUM-SPOTTED CRANE'S-BILL OR 

 CROW-FOOT GERANIUM. 



LINN. CLASS, MONADELPHIA ; ORDER, DECANDRIA. 

 NATURAL ORDER, GERANIACECE. 



The generic term Geranium is derived from a Greek word 

 signifying ' a crane? from the fancied resemblance of its per- 

 manent style to a crane's bill. This extremely pretty plant is 

 a very common wild flower, though it is really much more 

 worthy of cultivation than many of the exotic species so uni- 

 versally nurtured in our green-houses. It grows in fields and 

 woods, wherever the soil is light and moderately dry. It blooms 

 early in May, and is sometimes found as late as July. Its 

 common height is from twelve to eighteen inches, though in 

 very favorable situations it sometimes exceeds two feet. Its 

 root is medicinal as a powerful astringent. 



PASSAIC FALLS, NEW JERSEY. 



These Falls, long known and celebrated for their picturesque 

 beauty, are in the immediate vicinity of Patterson, a flourishing 

 manufacturing village in Eaaex county, New Jersey, about six- 

 teen miles distant from the city of New York. The scenery 

 around the falls is exceedingly wild and romantic. The rocks 

 around them are bare and rugged, forming perpendicular pre- 



