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from Cyprus according to Cadamosto (Bowd. Exc. 103), and 
Candia, i. e. Crete, according to Cordeyro (Hist. Insul. 79) 
shortly before 1445; and it supplanted gradually the Sugar- 
Cane, which had previously formed the staple produce of the 
island. It is trained in the S. of the island on trellises 3 or 4 
ft. high of cane ( Arundo Donax L.), and in the N. up chestnut 
or laurel trees called Balseiros. The ravages of the Oidium 
have however now completely changed again the face of the 
country. Its first appearance was in the summer of 1852. In 
1855 I found the vines almost universally destroyed and rooted 
up; and supplanted in the S. chiefly by the Sugar-cane, and in 
the N. by crops of Maize or Indian Corn. 
Order XVI. GERANIACEiE. 
The Geranium or Cranesbill Family. 
Sep. 5 persistent more or less unequal, the upper one often 
spurred at the base ; imbricated in the bud. Pet. 5 with claws 
alternate, twisted in the bud. Stam. monadelphous at the base 
2 or 3 times as many as the pet., some often regularly abortive. 
Ov. 5-celled, ovules 2, pendulous. Styles 5 cohering round an 
elongated axis. Fr. of 5 one-seeded carpels cohering round the 
long beak-like produced axis or torus, each terminated by its 
hardened elongated style, which when dry curls elastically up- 
wards separating from the axis and carrying up with it the 
carpel. Seeds solitary large filling the carp, without albumen : 
embryo curved folded ; cot. leafy plaited convolute. — Herbs or 
succulent shrubs with acid juices often aromatic. L. stipulate 
either opposite or alternate with opposite fl. -stalks. 
1. Geranium. Sep. 5, none spurred. Pet. 5. Stam. 10 
monadelphous, alternately larger and with glands at their 
base. Carp, plain and rounded at top ; the long finally 
recurved or revolute awn smooth inside. 
2. Erodium. Sep. 5, none spurred. Pet. 5. Stam. mona- 
delphous, 5 fertile with glands at the base, 5 sterile with- 
out glands, with broader fil. Carp, with 2 lateral scars 
or depressions at top ; the long finally curled-up and 
spirally twisted awn bearded inside. 
tt3. Pelargonium. Sep. 5, the uppermost produced at the 
base into a nectariferous spur adnate to the fl. -stalk. Pet. 5. 
Stam. 10 monadelphous, 7 fertile, 3 generally sterile. Awns 
of carp, finally curled-up and twisted spirally, bearded 
inside. 
