PELARGONIUM urbanum.
Homebred Storli s-bill.
P. urbanum, foliis inferioribus magnis rotundo-renifor-
mibus insequaliter acute dentatis utrinque pilosis :
superioribus cordatis cuneatisve acutis, stipulis ova-
tis cuspidatis ciliatis, umbellis multifloris, pedicellis
bracteis duplo longioribus, tubo nectarifero calyce
duplo breviore, petalis crenulatis, stylo glaberrimo.
Stem strong, frutescent, erect, not much branched: branches clothed with long spreading white hairs and
some shorter ones intermixed. Leaves variable, of a
smooth appearance, though clothed with longish hairs
on both sides, nearly flat, or but very slightly undulate
; deeply toothed with sharp rigid teeth, that are
very unequal in length, the points of the longest somewhat
reflexed: lower leaves 6 inches and a half broad
and three and a half long, roundly kidney-shaped,
somewhat cordate at the base, strongly nerved underneath,
the nerves branched but not numerous: stem-
leaves cordate, becoming cuneate on the flowering
branches; acute, deeply and sharply toothed. Stipules
ovate, ending in a sharp point, hairy and fringed. Umbels many-flowered. Peduncles long, and rather
slender, cylindrical, thickly clothed with long, spreading,
unequal hairs. Involucrum of numerous ovate,
concave, sharp-pointed, keeled bractes. Pedicles about
twice the length of the bractes, very hairy, the upper
part tinged with red. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments long,
lanceolate, taper-pointed, of a brown colour, villosely
hairy; upper segment rather broadest, straight; the
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