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Structure  af  Geranium  Maculatum.  {^KVeSbe?iSf  * 
minutely  reticulate  seeds  are  exalbuminous,  and  the  cotyledons  are 
plicate  and  incumbent. 
The  rhizome,  the  part  employed  in  medicine,  is  from  two  to  four 
inches  long,  one-fourth   to  three-fifths  of  an  inch  thick,  often 
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Fig.  2. 
branched,  bent  and  strongly  tuberculate,  dark  purplish-brown 
exteriorly  and  light  purplish-brown  interiorly.  When  dried  it  is 
wrinkled  longitudinally,  and  breaks  with  a  short,  non-fibrous  fracture. 
The  nearly  simple  roots  attain  a  diameter  of  about  one-twenty-fifth  of 
