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PELARGONIUM sanguineum.
Crimson Stork*s-bill.
. sanguineum,, umbellis multifloris, foliis decompositis
glabris apice recurvis; segmentis cuneatis inciso-
dentatis: infimis divaricatis, caule carnoso nodoso,
involucro polyphyllo calycibusque ciliatis.
Pelargonium sanguineum. Sprengel in Novi Proventus
Hortorum Academicorum Halensis et Berolinensis.
Stem shrubby, succulent, not much branched,
swelled at the joints. Branches knotted at the joints,
glaucous, and clothed with horizontal Leaves decompound, smooth, of a lighut ngerqeeuna l inhcaliirns.
ing to glaucous, points recurved; leaflets pinnat.ifid,
segments wedge-shaped, deeply cut. and toothed; lower
ones widely spreading with reflexed points. Petioles
vtheery u plopnegr ,s indeea, rsllyi gchytllyin hdariircya.l , oSrti pau lleistt lvee rfyl altatregnee,d e mon
bracing the stem, cordate, ciliate, entire or sometimes
cglloavuecno uast, thaen dp otihnitc.k lyP ecdouvnecrleeds vweirtyh lhoonrgi,z ocnytlainl dhriaciarsl,.
Umbels 8- to 13-flowered. Involucre of several lanceolate,
acute, fringed bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments
laanndc ecoilliaattee,. blNunetcitsahr,i fererofluesx etdu,b em vaerrgyi nu nmeeqmuablr,a nina cseoomues
flowers very long, nearly sessile, in others very short,
not much longer than the calyx, flattened on both sides
and covered with short pellucid hairs. Petals 5, spa-
thulate, the 2 uppermost widest, all of a dark scarlet
colour, marked in the middle of each with a velvetty
black. Filaments 10, united into a tube, 7 bearing
anthers, 3 sterile ones shortest, erect, subulate. Ger