PELARGONIUM senecioides.
Groundsel-like Stork's-bill.
P. senecioides, caule herbaceo paniculato-ramoso, foliis bi-
pinnatifido-laciniatis pinnatifidisque glabris, pedunculis
subtrifloris paniculatis, involucris calycibusque obtusis,
petalis omnibus obovatis, tubo nectarifero calyce glan-
duloso-piloso sesquilongiore.
Pelargonium senecioides. L'Herit. geran. t. 11. DC. prodr. 1. p.660. Willden. sp.pl.Q.p. 230. Hort. Kew. v. 2.p. 420 3. .E pd.6. 621. .v .P 4e.rps.. syn. l6p.
Stem herbaceous, annual or biennial, paniculately
branching; branches elongated, jointed, knotted at the
joints, densely clothed with a short glandular pubescence,
which when bruised emits a strong smell of turpentine. Leaves bipinnatifid on the lower part of the stem, tapering
to the base; upper ones pinnatifid, or laciniate, smooth or
slightly pubescent, segments oblong or obovate, bluntly
rounded. Petioles slender, quite flat on the upper side,
pubescent. Stipules small, acute, fringed. Peduncles pa-
nicled, 2 or 3-flowered, cylindrical, slender, thickly clothed
with a glandular pubescence. Involucre of 4 short, ovate,
concave, bluntly rounded bractes, of a thin membranaceous
transparent texture, with a strong green vein down the
centre of each, that is clothed with a glandular pubescence. Pedicles short, or sometimes wanting. Calyx 5-cleft, segments
very unequal, oblong, bluntly rounded, membranaceous,
strongly 1 to 5-nerved, the nerves glandularly pubescent.
Nectariferous tube variable in length, sometimes
scarcely longer than the calyx, at other times more
than half as long again, also densely glandularly pubescent. Petals 5, all obovate, white, tinged with blush, and red
veined, all very narrow at the base, the two upper ones