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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



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27. Pelargonium Hybridum ; Bastard Crane's Bill. Um- 

 bels many-flowered ; leaves obovate, crenate, smooth, fleshy ; 

 petals linear. Stem smooth ; leaves like those of the 50th 

 species, but broader, obscurely lobed, and somewhat downy ; 

 flowers of a scarlet red, with longer petals thati those of the 

 preceding. In the flower this species greatly resembles the 

 preceding, but the herb is smaller. Native of the Cape. 



28. Pelargonium Zonale; Common Horse-shoe Crane's Bill. 

 Umbels many-flowered ; leaves cordate, orbiculate, scarcely 

 lobed, toothed, marked with a concentric zone. This rises 

 with a shrubby stalk, four or five feet high, and divides into 

 a great number of irregular branches, so as to form a large 

 bush, frequently eight or ten feet in height ; the flowers are 

 produced in pretty close bunches, on axillary peduncles five 

 or six inches in length, coming out towards the ends of the 

 branches ; they are of a reddish purple or rose colour, are 

 very showy, and continue in succession during the greatest 

 part of the summer. There is a variety with tine variegated 

 leaves, and the flowers vary much in colour, from purple, 

 through the different shades of red, up to high scarlet. 

 Native of the Cape. 



29. Pelargonium Heterogamum ; Red-flowered Crane's Bill. 

 Umbels many-flowered ; leaves suborbiculate, gash-lobed, 

 toothed; stem erect, shrubby. Native of the Cape. 



30. Pelargonium Monstrum ; Cluster-leaved Crane's Bill. 

 Leaves orbiculate, reniform, obsoletely lobed, complicated, 

 curled. Native of the Cape. 



31. Pelargonium Bicolor; Two-coloured Crane's Bill. Um- 

 bels many-flowered ; leaves ternatifid, lobed, toothed, waved, 

 villose. Stem shrubby, twisted, covered with an ash-coloured 

 bark ; branches round, villose, subherbaceous, a foot long ; 

 corolla almost regular, papilionaceous, wheel-shaped ; petals 

 deep crimson, with a white edge. Jacquin observes, that 

 the whole plant has very a strong smell; and Curtis adds, 

 that it obviously differs from all the other species in the par- 

 ticular shape of its leaves, and the colour of the flowers, 

 which are usually of a rich and very dark purple, edged with 

 white : they appear from June to August. It is not disposed 

 to ripen its seeds, neither can it be very readily increased by 

 cuttings. Native of the Cape. 



32. Pelargonium Vitifolium ; Balm-scented Crane's Bill. 

 Flowers in heads ; leaves cordate, three-lobed, somewhat 

 rugged ; stems upright, seven or eight feet high. The flowers 

 grow in compact clusters, on the top of long, naked, axillary 

 peduncles, rising much higher than the branches ; being 

 small, and of a pale blue colour, they make no great figure, 

 but there is- a succession of them during most part of the 

 summer. Native of the Cape. 



33. Pelargonium Capitatum; Rose-scented Crane's Bill. 

 Flowers in heads ; leaves cordate, lobed, waved, soft. Stems 

 diffused, four or five feet high. The flowers grow in close 

 roundish heads, forming a sort of corymb; they are of a pur- 

 plish blue colour, with dark veins, and continue in succes- 

 sion great part of the summer : the leaves, when rubbed, have 

 an odour like dried Roses. Native of the Cape. 



34. Pelargonium Glutinosum ; Clammy Crane's Bill. Um- 

 bels few-flowered; leaves cordate, hastate, quinquangular, 

 clammy ; stem shrubby, covered with a gray bark, three feet 

 high and more ; branches declining and decumbent, green 

 and clammy, as is the whole of the plant; corolla much 

 larger than the calix, papilionaceous, pale purple, variegated 

 witli red streaks ; the two upper petals wider, reflex ; the 

 middle of the leaf is generally stained with purple. Several 

 varieties have been produced from seed, from which it is 

 sometimes propagated ; it is also readily increased by cut- 

 tings. Native of the Cape. See the seventeenth soccies. 



35. Pelargonium Cucullatum ; Hooded Crane's Bill. Um- 

 bels submultiflorous ; leaves kidney-form, cowled, slightly 

 scolloped, and finely toothed. This rises with a shrubby 

 stalk, eight or ten feet high, sending out several irregular 

 branches ; the petals are large, entire, and of a blue purple 

 colour ; the seeds have short hairy beaks. It flowers from 

 June to September. This is a large and showy species, 

 remarkable for its grayish hoary aspect, rounded, funnel-like 

 leaves, and copious hairy umbels of large purple flowers, the 

 upper petals finely pencilled, and marked with a dark central 

 spot. Native of the Cape. 



36. Pelargonium Angulosum ; Marshmallow-leaved Crane's 

 Bill. Umbels many-flowered; leaves rounded, cowled, angu- 

 lar, toothed. This bears much resemblance to the preceding, 

 and has been confounded with it; but the leaves are of a 

 thicker substance, divided into many acute angles, having 

 purple edges, which are acutely indented ; the stalks and 

 leaves are very hairy ; the branches are not so irregular as 

 those of the former, nor are the bunches of flowers near so 

 large. It flowers in July and August. Native of the Cape. 



37. Pelargonium Acerifolium ; Maple-leaved Crane's Bill. 

 Umbels five-flowered, or thereabouts ; leaves palmate, five- 

 lobed, serrate, wedge-shaped at bottom, undivided. It flowers 

 in April and May. Native of the Cape. 



38. Pelargonium Cordatum ; Heart-leaved Crane's Bill. 

 Umbels many-flowered ; leaves cordate, acute, toothed; lower 

 petals linear, acute. Stem shrubby, branched; flowers at the 

 ends of the stem and branches; corolla papilionaceous, large 

 pale purple. There are several varieties of this species which 

 strike readily from cuttings. Native of the Cape. 



39. Pelargonium Echinatum ; Prickly-stalked Crane's Bill 

 Stem fleshy ; stipules permanent, spinescent ; leaves cordate 

 roundish, from three to five lobed, densely downy beneath; 

 flowers umbelled ; umbels seven or eight flowered. This plant 

 somewhat resembles the preceding in its habit. The three 

 lowermost petals of the flower are pure white, with a little 

 gibbosity at the base of each ; the two uppermost are marked 

 with three irregular spots, of a rich purple colour, inclining 

 to carmine ; the two lower spots narrowest, and of the deep- 

 est colour. It varies with petals of a rich purple colour, in 

 which the spots are similar, but not so conspicuous. It pro- 

 duces its seed in favourable seasons, but is generally propa- 

 gated by cuttings. This plant is not very common ; but 

 deserxes attention from its singularity, and bejng ornamental. 

 Native of the Cape. 



40. Pelargonium Tetragonum ; Square-stalked Crane's Bill. 

 Peduncles two-flowered ; branches four-cornered, fleshy ; co- 

 rollas four-petalled. Stem angular; angles four, sometimes 

 three, succulent, as is the whole plant; corolla very hand- 

 some, papilionaceous ; the two upper petals an inch and half 

 in diameter, semitubular at the base, upright, reflex at the 

 tip, purple on the outside, white within, having two oblong 

 feathered spots, of a deep purple colour. A degree of singu- 

 larity runs through the whole of this plant; its stalks are un- 

 equally and obtusely quadrangular, sometimes more evidently 

 triangular ; its leaves few, and remarkably small ; its flowers 

 on the contrary are uncommonly large, and, which is most 

 extraordinary, have only four petals ; previous to their expan- 

 sion, the body of filamenta is bent so as to form a kind of bow. 

 There is a variety with beautifully coloured leaves. It flowers 

 from June to August. It is easily propagated by cuttings. 



41. Pelargonium Peltatum ; Peltated Crane's Bill. Um- 

 bels few-flowered; leaves five-lobcd, quite entire, fleshy, 

 peltated ; branches angular. This has many weak fleshy 

 stalks, which require support, and extend to the length of 

 two or three feet; the flowers are on uretty long axillary 



