19. GERANIACE^. 
on the hypogynous disk. Ovary 2-lobed, 2-celled. Style 1. 
Stigmas 2. Fruit vidnged, separating into 2 indehiscent nuts 
each with 1 cell and 1 — 2 seeds. Embryo cui'ved, albumen 0. — 
Trees with opposite leaves. 
1. Acer. F1. some imperfect. Calyx 5-parted. Pet. 5. 
Stam. usually 8, longer in the male flowers. 
1. A'cEK Linn. Maple. 
1. A. camjjes'tre (li.) ; 1. 5-lobed, lobes entire or slightly cut, 
corymbs erect, sep. and pet. linear hairy, wings of the fruit hori- 
zontally diverging, ovary downy, stam. of the male flowers as 
long as the corolla. — E. B. 304. — A small tree with corky fis- 
sui-ed bark. — Woods and hedges. T. V. VI. Maj)le. E. S. ? I. ? 
X2. A. Psetido-plat'amts (L.) ; 1. 5-lobed unequally serrate, 
racemes pendidom, ovary downy with spreading wings, stam. of 
the male flowers twice as long as the corolla. — -B. B. 303. R. v. 
164. — A large handsome tree. — In hedges and plantations. T. 
V. VI. Sycamore. E. S. 
Order XIX. GERANIACE^. 
Sep. 5, persistent, imbricate. Pet. 5, clawed, twisted in the 
bud. Stam. generally nionadelphous, 2 or 3 tunes as many as 
the petals, some often abortive. Fruit of 5 cai-pels cohering 
round a long beaked axis, each terminated by an indurated style 
which finally twists up, separating from the axis, and carrying 
with it the carpel. Seeds solitary, -ndthout albxmien. Cotyle- 
dons convolute, plaited. 
1. Geranium. Sep. 5. Pet. 5. Stam. 10, monadelphous, 
alternately larger and with glands at their base. Carp, 
rounded at the top ; the long ultimately recurved beak gla- 
brous internally. 
2. Ebodium. Sep. 5. Pet. 5. Stam. monadelphous, 5 sterile, 
5 fertile with glands at their base. Carp, with 2 lateral de- 
Eressions at the top ; the long ultimately spirally twisted 
eak bearded internally. 
1. Geea'nttjm Linn. Cranesbill. 
* Root consisting oflongjihres springiyig from a short thick 
rhizome, perennial. 
tl. G.ph(s'um(L.); peduncles 2-flowered, pet. roundish wedge- 
shaped rather longer than the miicronate sepals, carp, hairy 
below transversely wrinkled above, seeds punctate-striate. — B. 
322. R. V. 197.— St. erect, 2 feet high. L. 5-lobed ; lobes acute 
