36 xiii. geraniace^e. [ Geranium . 
Peduncles 2-floweved. Sepals awned. Carpels hairy. Seeds quite 
eveu. (Stemless.) 3. G. sessilijlorum. 
Peduncles 2-flowered. Sepals not awned. Carpels glabrous. Seeds 
smooth 4. G. molle. 
1. G. dissectum, Linn., var. caroiinianum, FI. N. Z. i. 39. Stem 
1-2 ft. high, stout, erect or decumbent, branched, more or less covered with 
spreading, usually retrorse hairs. Leaves 1-2 in. diam., on long petioles, or- 
bicular, deeply cut into few or many, broad or narrow, obtuse or acute lobes ; 
stipules broad, scarious. Peduncles slender, 2-liowered, with ovate, subulate 
bracts. Flowers very variable in size, in. diam. Sepals hairy, awned. 
Petals notched or retuse, pink. Carpels and their beaks hairy, even. Seeds 
deeply and coarsely pitted. 
Var. a. pilosum. Covered with spreading hairs. Petals often rather large. — G. pilosum, 
Forst. ; G. patagonicum , Hook, f., FI. Antarct. ii. 252. 
Var. patuhim. Leaves covered with spreading and retrorse hairs. Petals usually 
small. — G. retrorsum , DC. Prodr. ; G. patutum, Forst. Prodr. 
Var. y. glabraium. More glabrous, the leaves 3-5-lobed, with the lobes broader. 
Abundant throughout the islands, Banks and Solander, etc. A most puzzling plant, oc- 
curring in S. America from Canada to Cape Horn. It is described in the N. American Floras 
as annual or biennial ; the roots seem annual in Canadian and United States specimens, but 
perennial in West N. America, ltocky Mountain, and Chilian ones ; the petals also, which 
are as short as the sepals in the United States form, become larger in the AVest American. 
The New Zealand form differs from the European G. dissectum, chiefly in the petals being 
often large, always less deeply notched, and the root always more than annual ; but I do not 
find these distinctions to be constant. The amount and depth of pitting of the seed varies 
much in different specimens. The species ranges through temperate Australia, and North and 
South America, in which latter country it has several names. 
2. G. microphyllum, Hook. f. FI. Antarct. i. 8. < t. v. — G. potentilloides, 
L’Heritier ; FI. N. Z. i. 40. A very slender, prostrate, straggling-, branched 
plant, 12-15 in. long, more or less covered with silky white, appressed or 
spreading hairs, often retrorse on the peduncles and pedicels. Leaves orbicular, 
£-1 in. broad, usually cut to or below the middle into 5-7 broad, obcuneate, 
toothed, obtuse lobes; petioles slender ; stipules small. Peduncles rarely 2- 
flowered. Flowers smaller than in G. dissectum /3, excepting in fine specimens, 
the sepals with very short awns, and the petals larger in proportion, white 
or pale-pink, retuse. Carpels even, with short hairs. Seeds minutely dotted. 
Mountainous or hilly situations in all the islands, Banks and Solander, etc. Lord Auck- 
land’s group, J.L.H. In the N. Z. Flora I referred this to the Tasmanian G. potentilloides, 
which is how-ever referred by Bentham, Mueller, and Archer to G. pilosum, Forst. ( dissec- 
tum , Linn.), from which this differs in the much more slender habit, smaller less-lobed leaves, 
smaller less-pointed sepals, and very obscurely pitted seeds. The varieties debile and micro- 
phyllum of Fl. N. Z. are only forms, connected by too many intermediates to be retained as 
varieties. 
3. G. sessiliflorum, Cav. ; — G. brevicaule , Hook.; Fl. N. Z. i. 40. 
Stemless, or nearly so ; root stout ; branches, if present, very short, and leaves 
more or less covered with silky hairs, which are spreading or retrorse on the 
petioles, pedicels, and sepals. Leaves mostly radical, very numerous, on 
long, slender petioles, 3-6 in. long, orbicular, cut to or below the middle into 
cuneate 5-7-fid lobes ; stipules broad, membranous. Peduncles short, from 
the root, or from branches which are rarely longer than the leaves. Flowers 
between those of G. dissectum fi, and microphyllum. Sepals awned, very hairy. 
