. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . Family 6i. GERANIACEAE J. St. Hil. Expos. Fam. 2: 51. 1805. Gera.\il-m Family. Herbs with alternate or opposite leaves, and axillary solitary or clustered perfect regular flowers. Stipules coinmonly present. Sepals 5 (rarely fewer), mostly persistent. Petals of the same number, hypogynous. Stamens as many as the sepals, or 2-3 times as many, distinct; anthers 2-celled, versa
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . Family 6i. GERANIACEAE J. St. Hil. Expos. Fam. 2: 51. 1805. Gera.\il-m Family. Herbs with alternate or opposite leaves, and axillary solitary or clustered perfect regular flowers. Stipules coinmonly present. Sepals 5 (rarely fewer), mostly persistent. Petals of the same number, hypogynous. Stamens as many as the sepals, or 2-3 times as many, distinct; anthers 2-celled, versatile. Ovary I, usually 5-lobed and 5-celled: ovules i or 2 in each cavity. Fruit capsular. Embryo straight or curved; cotyledons flat or plicate. .â \bout 12 genera and Carpel-bodies turgid: carpel-tails Cstyles) usually 10 (or 5 in Geranium pusilUiii Carpel-bodies deciduous from the style; top ; leaves divided. Carpel-bodies permanently attached to the styles, unappendaged es of temperate regions, most abundant in South .\frica. glabrous within, merely recoiling at maturity : anthers at maturity, each fibrous appendages near the 1. Roherfiella. aves lobed. cleft or parted. 2. Geranium. Carpel-bodies spindle-shaped: carpel-tails fstyles) pubescent within, spirally coiled at maturity; anthers 5. 3. Erodium. I. ROBERTIELEA Hanks; Hanks & Small. N. A. Fl. 25': 3. 1907. [RoBERTiiM Picard, Mem. .Soc. .Agric. Boulogne II. i : 99. 1837. Xot Robcrlia Scop. 177".1 Herbs with 3-divided leaves, the divisions 1-2-pinnatifid. and axillary 2-flowered pedun- cles. Flowers regular. Sepals 5. ,7wn-tippcd. Petals 5. glabrous, each with a slender claw and a broad blade. Stamens 10; filaments glabrous. Ovary S-lobed. 5-ceIled, the style- column beaked. Ovules 2 in each cavity. Capsule separating into 5 carpels, the bodies deciduous from the styles at maturity, each bearing 2 fibrous appendages near the top. [Diminutive oi Rnhertium.} Two known species of north temperate regions, the foll
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