Pineywoods Geranium

Geranium fremontii Torr.; A. Gray, PL Pendl. 26. 1849 Perennial, the caudex branched. Stems tufted, usually scape-like, 2-5 dm. long, ascending or spreading, retrorsely pubescent, and more or less glandular above ; leafblades thick, pentagonal and conspicuously angular, 2-4.5 cm. wide, 3-5-parted, the divisions coarsely toothed or lobed, rather canescent; pedicels stout, densely hirsute-puberulent with viscid glandular hairs; sepals awn-tipped, the outer ones 10-11 mm. long, the bodies oblong to oblong-lanceolate, ciliate and more or less glandular ; petals pink-purple, 15-20 mm. long; styde-column 20-25 mm. long, about 2 mm. thick, pubescent like the pedicels; carpel-bodies 4 mm. long, pilose-strigose ; seeds reticulate.
Type locality : Moro River, New Mexico. Distribution : Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona.

Geranium marginale Rydberg, sp. nov Perennial, the eaudex cespitosely branched. Stems erect or ascending, 1-4 dm. long, commonly simple below, minutely pubescent with short retrorse and rather appressed hairs; leaf-blades pentagonal in outline, 2-3 cm. wide, minutely pubescent, 3-5-parted, the divisions, at least the terminal one, cuneate, and mostly 3-toothed at the apex ; pedicels closely retrorse-pubescent ; sepals awn-tipped, the outer ones 8-9.5 mm. long, the bodies ellipticlanceolate, minutely pubescent; petals light-pink or rose-colored, 12-15 mm. long; stylecolumn 15-18 mm. long, minutely hirsute; carpel-bodies 4.5-5 mm. long, sparingly pubescent.
Tvpe collected on the Aquarius Plateau at the head of Poison Creek, Utah, August 4, 1905, P. A. Rydberg & E. C. Carl Ion 7401. Distribution : Utah.

Geranium caespitosum James, Exp. L,ong 2 : 3. 1823
Perennial, the caudex branched. Stems tufted, scape-like, 1.5-4 dm. long, retrorsely pubescent ; leaf-blades thick, pentagonal or nearly orbicular in outline, 2-6 cm. wide, canescent or strigillose-canescent, 3-5-parted, the divisions incised or lobed; pedicels glandular-hirsute ; sepals awn-tipped, the outer ones 9-11 mm. long, the bodies oblong-elliptic or elliptic-ovate, ciliate and sometimes glandular near the base ; petals rose-purple, 14-17 mm. long; style-column 18-20 mm. long, glandular-pubescent; carpel-bodies 3-3.5 mm. long, glandular-pubescent ; seeds reticulate.
Type locality : Base of the Rocky Mountains.
Distribution : Wyoming and Colorado, and perhaps in California.

Geranium cowenii Rydb. Fl. Colo. 218. 1906 Perennial, the eaudex sparingly branched. Stems few together, scape-like, erect, 3-5 dm. long, retrorsely pubescent ; leaf-blades pentagonal in outline, 2.5-6 cm. wide, 3-5-parted, the divisions cleft, lobed or toothed, thickish, rather canescent ; petioles of the lower leaves elongate, pubescent like the stem; pedicels more or less hirsute; sepals awn-tipped, the outer ones 10-12 mm. long, the bodies elliptic, ciliate ; petals pink-purple, 12-15 mm. long ; style-column 15-18 mm. long, finely pubescent and sometimes sparingly glandular ; seeds reticulate.
Type locality: Not given, but the tvpe was collected in Rist Canon, Colorado, II'. F. Marshall 1151.
Distribution: Colorado and Wyoming.

Geranium parryi (Engelm.) Heller, Cat. N Am. PL ed. 2. 7. 1900. Geranium Fremoniii Parryi Engelm. Am. Jour. Sci. II. 33: 405. 1862.
Perennial, the caudex branched. Stems tufted, scape-like, 2-6 dm. long, glandularvillous ; leaf-blades thickish, pentagonal, 2.5-6 cm. broad, canescent-strigillose, more or less glandular, 3-5-parted, the divisions incised or lobed ; pedicels glandular-hirsute ; sepals awn-tipped, the outer ones 8.5-9.5 mm. long, the bodies elliptic to ovate, glandularciliate ; petals pink-purple, 12-15 mm. long; style-column 18-23 .mm. long, pubescent like the pedicels; carpel-bodies 3.5-4 mm. long, glandular-hirsute; seeds reticulate.
Type locality : Rocky Mountains. Distribution : Wyoming, Colorado, and Arizona.