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PELARGONIUM filipendulifolium.
Dropwort-leaved Stork’ s-bill.
P. filipendulifolium, subcaulescens, foliis inferioribus
pinnatifido-laciniatis; pinnis obovatis lobatis inciso-
dentatis: superioribus bipinnatifidis glabriusculis;
segmentis- acutis laciniatis dentatis, calycibus re-
flexis, tubo nectarifero calyce quintuplo longiori.
Pelargonium filipendulifolium. Hort. sub. lond. p. 150.
n. 44. Colv. Catal.p. 21. col. 3.
Pelargonium triste ß. filipendulifolium. Bot. mag. 1641.
Subcaulescent. Root tuberous, very large, brown
and scaly, branching olf into numerous other irregular
tubers. Stem short, not much branches elongated, in our specimberna nbcehtwede;e nf ltowwoe rainngd
three feet high, of a glaucous green colour, thickly
scelovtehreadl uwmibtehl s loofn fgl owsperres.a diLnega vevsil lsomuos othhaisirhs,, bubte ahraiinrgy
on the nerves, of a light green colour, inclining to
glaucous; lower ones pinnatifid or deeply laciniate;
segments obovate, lobed, deeply and sharply cut and
toothed; stem-leaves bipinnatifid; segments acute,
tdiefiedp,l yse dgimviednetds laanncde otolaotteh,e vde,r yu psphaerrp lleya vceust aonndc et opoitnhnead.
Petioles slightly flattened on the upper side and rounded
on the lower, thickly clothed with long villous hairs,
maso asrtely t htoeo ptheeddu.n clPese.d uSntcilpeusl evse rlayr gloen, gc, ormdaantey,- fbloluwnetirsehd,.
Involucre of numerous lanceolate bluntish bractes,
jmoiennetds uant ethqeu abl,a slea,n scliegohlatltye ,f roinbgtuesde., reCflaelxyexd 5. -clNefetc, tsaergiferous
tube flattened and furrowed on each side, clothed
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