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PELARGONIUM ursinum.
Shaggy-calyxed Stork’s-bill.
P. ursinum, caule fruteScente ramoso, ramis villosis, fo-
liis cordatis acutiusculis undulatis argute cartilagi-
neo-dentatis undique molliter tomentosis margine
ciliatis, stipulis ovatis acutis subdentatis, pedunculis
3-4-floris, calycibus villosissimis, tubo nectarifero
calyce duplo breviore.
Stem frutescent, much branched: branches some-
* what spreading, thickly clothed with long woolly hairs
and short down underneath. Leaves cordate, scarcely
acute, somewhat rounded, a little hollow at the base,
very slightly undulate, unequally toothed with rigid
horny teeth ; very soft to the touch, being densely clothed
with short woolly hairs on both sides, fringed with
woolly hairs. Petioles slightly flattened on the upper
side, and slightly furrowed, rounded below, thickly
clothed with villous hairs. Stipules ovate, sharp-pointed,
villous and fringed. Umbels 3 or 4-flowered. Peduncles
cylindrical, villous. Involucre of 6 or 7 ovate, acute,
villous bractes, that are mucronate at their points. Pedicles villosely hairy, longer than the bractes. Calyx
5-cleft, densely clothed with long shaggy hairs; the
segments broadly lanceolate, acute, concave on the
inner side, erect or slightly spreading. Nectariferous
tube about half the length of the calyx, villous. Petals 5;
the two upper ones broadly obovate, unequal-sided towards
the base, of a pale rosy pink, with a small vel-
vetty spot in the centre, below which are numerous
branching purple lines: lower ones narrower, obovate,
rounded at the ends, of a paler colour, lined with nu