PELARGONIUM hirtum.
Hairy Stork’s-bill.
P. hirtum, umbellis 3-5-florisve, foliis bipinnato-supra-
decompositis hirtis: foliolis linearibus obtusis, caule
carnoso squamoso subdecumbente, petalis superi-
oribus emarginatis, tubo nectarifero calyce duplo
breviori.
Pelargonium hirtum. Willden. sp.pl. 3. p. 689. Jacq.
ic. rar. 3. t. 536. Collect. 2. p. 144. Pers. syn. 2.
p. 234.
Geranium hirtum. Cavan. diss. 4. p. 258. t. 117. f . 2.
Geranium abrotanifolium. Andrews''s geran. c. ic. P
nee aliorum.
Stem shrubby, succulent, rather decumbent, irregularly
swollen, in some places quite slender, scaly,
owing to the cracking of the brown hairy bark, and
whei’e the footstalks of the leaves are dropped off
there are tufts of white villous hairs; flowering branches
slenderer, and divided, bearing numerous umbels of
flowers, thickly clothed with unequal woolly hairs, as
is every other part of the plant except the corolla.
Leaves decompound, divided into innumerable linear
bluntish leaflets, points recurved or revolute. Petioles
slender, flattened and furrowed on the upper side and
convex on the lower, much dilated at the base. Stipules
lanceolately subulate, entire, joined to the base
of the petioles. Peduncles much longer than the leaves,
cylindrical, rigid, 3 to 5 flowered. Involucre of numerous
unequal lanceolate or linear taper-pointed fringed
bractes. Pedicles stiff, unequal in length, longer than
the nectariferous tube. Calyx 5-cleft, segments blunt,
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