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Title: Rocky Mountain flowers : an illustrated guide for plant-lovers and plant-users
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Clements, Frederic E. (Frederic Edward), 1874-1945 Clements, Edith S. (Edith Schwartz)
Subjects: Wild flowers
Publisher: New York : H. W. Wilson
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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hair, from the hair-like stems) Characters of the family. 1. Submerged; all leaves linear to oblong; bracts none C. bifida 2. Amphibious; air leaves spatulate or obovate; bracts present C. palustris GERAXIALES GERANIUM ORDERGERANIACEAE GERANIUM FAMILY Sepals 5, petals 5, stamens 5-10, ovary 5-celled, lobed, ovules 1 or 2 ineach chamber, stigmas 5, fruit a capsule splitting into 5 nut-like parts; flow-ers solitary or clustered; annual, biennial or perennial herbs with alternateor opposite divided or compound leaves. 1. Stamens with anthers 5; leaves pinnate Erodium 2. Stamens with anthers 10 ; leaves palmately divided Geranium PLATE 7 MALLOWS—GERANIUMSFLAX FAMILY 1. Linum perenne: Flax OXALIS FAMILY 2. Oxalis stricta: Wood Sorrel MALLOW FAMILY 3. Sidalcea neo-mexicana 7. Malvastrum coccineum 8. Callirhoe involucrata: Poppy Mallow SPURGE FAMILY 4. Euphorbia marginata: Snow-on-the-mountain GERANIUM FAMILY 5. Erodium cicutarium: Storksbill, Alfilaria 6. Geranium caespitosum: Cranesbill
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EDITH S. CLEMENTS. PINXT ROCKY MOUNTAIN FLOWERS WOOD SORREL FAMILY 39 Erodium LHeritier 1807 Storksbill, Alfilaria (Gr. erodios, heron, from the form of the fruit) PL 7, fig. 5. Sepals 5, petals 5, pink or rose-purple, the upper 2 smaller, stamens 5,alternating with 5 sterile filaments, ovary 5-lobed, stigmas 5, lobes of thefruit 1-seeded, separating, styles hairy on the inner side; flowers in umbels;leaves pinnate, the leaflets finely cut; annual.Stems spreading, 2-8 in. high; flowers 6-12 mm. broad. E cicutdrium Geranium Linne 1753 Geranium, Cranesbill (Gr. geranos, crane, from the form of the fruit) PL 7, fig. 6. Sepals 5, petals 5, white to red or purple, stamens 10, in 2 rows, ovary5-lobed, stigmas 5, lobes of the fruit 1-seeded, remaining united by the tipsof the styles, the latter not hairy on the inner side; flowers solitary orclustered; leaves palmately 3-9-divided. 1. Petals bright pink, red or purple; plant more or less glandular hairy; typically in dry soil G. caespitosum

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