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LIMNANTHACEAE 
Stamens 10, all with anthers; leaves palmately parted. ..1. Geranium. 
Stamens with anthers 5 ; leaves pinnate or pinnatifid, or roundish-cordate. 
2. Erodium. 
1. GERANIUM L. Cranesbill 
Stems forking and leaves palmately parted. Peduncles 1 to 3-flowered. 
Stamens 10. (Greek geranos, a crane, from the elongated fruit-bearing 
beak.) 
1. G. carolinianum L. Carolina Geranium. Leaf-divisions more 
or less cut or toothed, the ultimate segments broad; petals light pink, 6 
mm. long.—Open places. 
2. ERODIUM L’Her. Storksbill 
Leaves simple or pinnate. Peduncles 2 to 8-flowered. Stamens with 
anthers 5, the alternate filaments sterile and scale-like. (Greek erodios, 
a heron.) 
Leaves pinnately cleft with broad acute lobes; beak of fruit 7.2 to 12 cm. long; 
sepals bristle-tipped.1. E. botrys. 
Leaves pinnately parted or divided into hooked segments ; fruit 3.6 to 4.2 cm. long. 
Sepals sometimes tipped with 1 or 2 short setose hairs; stipules large, 
obtuse.2. E. moschatum. 
Sepals tipped with 1 or 2 long bristle-like hairs; stipules commonly small 
and acute. 3. E. deuterium. 
1. E. botrys Bertol. Plants prostrate or diffuse; leaves oblong-ovate, 
pinnatifid with serrate lobes; sepals bristle-tipped; petals deep violet; 
filaments dilated and toothed.—Nat. from the Mediterranean. 
2. E. moschatum L’Her. White-stem Filaree. Musk Clover. 
Leaves 4.8 or 7.2 to 43.2 cm. long, the basal ones forming a close broad 
rosette upon the ground; leaflets ovate to elliptical, serrate or sparsely 
cut; sepal tips not bristle-bearing; petals rose-purple, 6 mm. long; fila¬ 
ments winged at base and toothed.—Orchards and vineyards; naturalized 
Mediterranean plant. 
3. E. cicutarium (L.) L’Her. Red-stem Filaree. Very like no. 2 
but leaflets nearly oblong and pinnatifid; sepal tips with 1 or 2 bristles; 
filaments little dilated at base, not toothed.—Far more common than no. 
2 and found everywhere on hills, plains and deserts. It is also naturalized 
from the Mediterranean and is a valuable forage plant. 
LIMNANTHACEAE. MEADOW-FOAM FAMILY 
Ours annual herbs with alternate pinnately divided leaves and solitary 
flowers on axillary peduncles. Sepals and petals 5 (rarely 4). Stamens 
10. Carpels 5, sub-globose and nearly distinct (but with a common style 
5-cleft at apex), when ripe separating into smooth or roughish seed-like 
pieces.—Species 5, North America. 
1. FLOERKEA Willd. 
Low somewhat succulent plants. Sepals valvate in the bud, as many 
hypogynous glands alternating with them. (H. G. Floerke, a German 
botanist.) 
1. F. douglasii Baill. Meadow-Foam. Stems branching from the 
base, 1.4 to 3.3 dm. long; herbage glabrous, yellowish green; leaf-divisions 
lobed or cleft; peduncles at length 4.8 to 9.6 cm. long; petals obovate- 
cuneate, yellowish and white or roseate at tip, or wholly white, 1.2 to 1.8 
cm. long.—Low wet places in valleys. 
