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PELARGONIUM pyrethriifolium.
Feverfew-leaved Stork’s-bill.
P. pyrethriifolium, pedunculis 2-3 florisve, foliis cor-
datis palmato-bipinnatifidis scabris margine planis:
segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis dentatis, pe-
talis inferis ligulatis, tubo nectarifero longitudine
calycis.
Stem shrubby, much branched; branches short,
thickly clothed with soft villous unequal hairs, as are
the petioles, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves cordate,
palmately bipinnatifid with flat margins, rough and
hairy on both sides, of a hoary colour: segments ob-
longly lanceolate, obtuse, unequally toothed with blunt
rounded teeth, or sometimes entire. Petioles about
the length or a little longer than the leaves, slightly
flattened on the upper side and rounded on the lower,
a little widened at the base. Stipules cordately lanceolate,
oblique, taper-pointed and fringed. Peduncles
cylindrical, 2 or 3 flowered. Involucre of 4 oblong or
lanceolate, acute, fringed bractes. Pedicles about
double the length of the nectariferous tube. Calyx 5-
cleft, upper segment ovate, bluntish, erect, the others
lanceolate, reflexed. Nectariferous tube about the
length of the calyx, much flattened on each side, and
gibbous at the base. Petals 5, the two uppermost
spatulately obovate, of an orangy red colour, marked
in the centre with a purple patch which joins a few
purple stripes from the base : lower petals narrowly
ligulate, of a lighter colour. Filaments 1 0, connected
at the base, 7 bearing anthers. Style red, very hairy.
Stigmas 5, red, reflexed.
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