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Pelargonium Tomentosum. Penny- 

 Royal Crane's-Bill. 



Clafs and Order. 



MoNADELPHIA DeCANDRIA, 



Generic Characler m 



Cal. 5-partitus: lacinia fuprema definente in tubulum capil- 

 larem neftariferum fccus pedunculum decurrentem- Cor. 5- 

 petala, irregularis. Fit. 10 insequalia, quorum 3 (raro 5) caf- 

 trata. Frucl. 3-coccus, roftratus : roftra fpiralia introrfum 

 barbata. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



PELARGONIUM tomentofum, umbellis mukifloris fubpani- 

 culatis foliis cordatis, hallato quinque- 

 lobis villofis molliffimis. Spec. PL edit. 

 Willdenow, 677. 



PELARGONIL T M tomentofum, umbellis mukifloris fimplici- 

 bus compofitifque, foliis cordatis fubquin- 

 quelobis, ferratis, tomentofis, molliffimis, 

 caule carnofo. Jacq. Icon. rar. 3. tab. 

 537. Collet. 5. p. 240. 



This fpecies, although introduced fince the publication of 

 A 1 ton's Hortus Kewenfis, is now very common, being a quick 

 grower, and very eafily propagated by cuttings. It is generally 

 known in the gardens by the trivial name of piperitum, and our 

 gardeners ufually underftand by tomentofum a very different and 

 a more rare and tender kind, the blatt avium 0$ J acq u in, figured 

 under the name of Geranium tomentofum, by Mr. Andrews, in 

 his Botanift's Repofitory, pi. 115; but as our plant has been long 

 ago defcribed and figured by Jacquin, in his hones plantarum 

 rariorum, who has called it Pelargonium tomentofum, and the 

 fame has been adopted by Willdenow, in his new edition of 

 the Species Plantarum ; it is become neceffary to correft the 

 vulgar appellation, in order to adhere to a name under which 

 it has been already publifhed. 



It forms a large bufliy fhrub, but the branches being brittle 

 J nd the tops heavy, is very apt to be broken and disfigured 

 3 y the wind. It is not remarkable for the beauty of its 

 lowers, and the odour is too ftrong to be pleafant to many 

 ^erfons, though to others it is very agreeable, much refembling 

 p enny-Royal. 



