GEEANIACE^. 



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11. Cut-leaved Geranium. Geranium dissectum, Linn. 

 (Fig. 209.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 753.) 



An annual, like the last three, but 

 often more erect, and usually more 

 branched, and the leaves much more 

 deeply divided into 5, 7 or 9 narrow 

 segments, which are again deeply trifid 

 or lobed. Peduncles very short, bearing 

 two small purple flowers ; the sepals 

 rather larger than in the last three 

 species, with distinct subulate points ; 

 the petals about their length, slightly 

 notched. Carpels hairy, without wrinkles, 

 Seeds beautifully and minutely reticu- 

 lated or dotted. The hairiness of the 

 plant is yariable ; usually the stems are 

 clothed with long, reflexed hairs, the 

 leaves with a short, soft down. 



In dry pastures, waste and cultivated 

 places, common in Europe and Russian 

 Asia, except the extreme north, a slight 

 variety or closely allied species, equally common in North America, 

 and another larger-flowered perennial form extends over western North 

 America, the greater part of South America, southern Australia, and 

 New Zealand. Abundant in Britain. FL spring and summer. 



Fig. 209. 



12. Long-stalked Geranium. Geranium Columbinum, L. 

 (Eig. 210.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 259.) 



An annual, with slender, decumbent, slightly hairy stems ; the leaves 

 deeply divided as in the cut-leaved G., but the segments still nar- 

 rower, mostly linear ; the peduncles and pedicels longer and more 

 slender; the calyx considerably longer, with long, slender points. Pe- 

 tals entire or notched, seldom exceeding the calyx. Carpels but 

 slightly hairy, or quite glabrous, not wrinkled. Seeds dotted as in 

 the cut-leaved G. 



