PELARGONIUM crataegifolium.
Hawthorn-leaved Stork's-bill.
P. crataegifolium, ramis flexuosis glabriusculis, foliis reni-
formibus trilobis planiusculis inaequaliter denticulatis
ciliatis glabriusculis; lobis latis sublobatis, stipulis ova-
tis breviter acuminatis ciliatis, pedunculis plurifloris,
tubo nectarifero calyce subasquaH.
Stem frutescent, branching: branches erect or ascending,
flexuose, with a smooth glossy bark, slightly viscous, when
young thickly clothed with spreading white hairs. Leaves
kidney-shaped, flat, or slightly undulate while young, of a
light glossy green, much broader than long, an inch and
half long and 2 inches and a half broad, slightly recurved at
the point, deeply 3-lobed, the lobes very broad and in general
slightly lobed, thinly clothed with hairs when young, but
becoming smooth by age, toothed with numerous small
teeth that are very unequal in size, the margins fringed with
short hairs, strongly 3-nerved from the base, the nerves
branching in all directions. Petioles rather slender, slightly
flattened on the upper side and rounded on the lower, widened
at the base, thinly clothed with spreading unequal hairs.
Stipules ovate, tapering to a short point, fringed. Umbels
several-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, more or less bent,
thinly clothed with hairs. Involucre of 6 or 7 short, broadly
lanceolate, or ovate, acute, fringed bractes, generally
more or less connected at the base. Pedicles long, hairy. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, acute, villosely hairy
: upper one broadest and keeled. Nectariferous tube
about the length of the calyx, flattened and slightly keeled
on each side, and gibbous at the base. Petals 5; the two
upper ones obovate, very unequal-sided, of a dark salmon