GERANIUM FAMILY. GERANIACEAE.
Fig 116. [Alfilaria. Storks-bill. Erodium cicutarium] (L.) L'Her.
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Alfilaria. Storks-bill. Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Her. Flowers pink; achenes reddish brown, hairy, lance-shaped, the smaller end curved, hard, sharp, the larger end when mature bearing an awn spirally coiled for half its length, the sickle like apex turned to one side.
Achenes 5–6 mm. long, the coiled portion and cycle-like apex each 10–15 mm. long. True seed light brown, ovoid-lanceolate 2.5–2.7 mm. long. Introduced from Europe.
This plant is not yet common in our state, but, judging from its behavior in the botanic garden, it is destined soon to become a bad weed. On the desert ranches of Arizona, Nevada and elsewhere, it furnishes much pasture.
Fig 117. [Cut-leaved Crane's bill. Geranium dissectum] L.
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Cut-leaved Crane's bill. Geranium dissectum L. Seed light brown, broadly oval or ovoid, surface deeply pitted requiring 25–30 pits to form one row transversely about the surface. Seed scar at the larger end from which extends a slight vertical ridge reaching nearly one-third the length of the seed. Introduced from Europe, becoming common.
Fig 118. [Small-flowered Crane's bill. Geranium pusillum]
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Small-flowered Crane's bill. Geranium pusillum Burm. f. Flowers minute, pink, pubescent under a lens, slightly compressed, oval with the apex near one side of one end, about 2 mm. long, the beak nearly twice as long; seed reddish brown, smooth, oval, slightly flattened, 1.7–1.9 mm. long. Introduced from Europe, a bad weed when once established.