. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. s obovate-oblong, canescent, scarcelymucronate ; petals flesh-colored, obovate, scarcely longer than calyx ;beak .04 long, 6-8 times as long as capsule — Spring — Et Tih to Sinaiand Egypt. 3. 0£RA!KlU]fI, L. Cranesbill. Geranium. Jerna. ^Utr. Flowers regular. Sepals equal. Glands 5, alternate with 10, generally all anther-bearing. Valves of capsule round atbase, splitting down the inner side. Styles glabrous within, curvingupward in fruit — Annual or pere
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. s obovate-oblong, canescent, scarcelymucronate ; petals flesh-colored, obovate, scarcely longer than calyx ;beak .04 long, 6-8 times as long as capsule — Spring — Et Tih to Sinaiand Egypt. 3. 0£RA!KlU]fI, L. Cranesbill. Geranium. Jerna. ^Utr. Flowers regular. Sepals equal. Glands 5, alternate with 10, generally all anther-bearing. Valves of capsule round atbase, splitting down the inner side. Styles glabrous within, curvingupward in fruit — Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubby at base ;peduncles generally 1-flowered. * Perennials. 1. O. 8Ub€aiile§cens, Lherit. 2^ .1 to .2, rootstoch vertical,cylindrical; stems few-flowered, sometimes leafless. Leaves round,.02 broad, 5-parted intocuneate, trifid segments, appressed-velvety, of- GERANIAOE^. (GERANIUM FAMILY.) 191 ten asli-colored, the radical long-petioled. Sepals sliort-mucroiiate ;petals purple, .01 long, obovate, often truncate, twice as long as calyx— Summer — Subalpine and alpine Lebanon. Fig. (a) Flowers of a species of Geranium, (b) Leaf of the same, (c) Thestamens, 10 in number, 5 long and 5 short, united in a ring below.(d) The fruit at maturity showing 4 of the 5 carpels raised elasticallyby their curving styles : the fifth is just starting, (e) Seed. (/) Thesame divided transversely, showing the cotyledons bent over in theshape of an Italic s. 2. O. tuberosum, L. 2]! .1 to .4 ; roots tuberous ; stems moreor less pubescent or hirsute, erect, 2-3-forked above. Leaves nearlyround, 5-9-parted into oblong to lanceolate and linear segments, theradical long-petioled, often .1 broad, the floral sessile. Sepals hairy,ovate, abruptly mucronate ; petals purple, obcordate, .015 long, morethan twice as long as calyx — Spring — Fields ; common from coast tosubal})ine regions and interior plains. 3. O. Libanoticum, Boiss. etBl. If .d to .5, rootstochoUiqu
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