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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



PEL 



into flowering stalks, form few proper for cuttings, which are 

 struck with difficulty, and perfect seeds are but sparingly 

 produced. 



57. Pelargonium Carneum; Flesh-coloured Cranes Bill. 

 Stemless : root rapaceous, simple, oblong, brown, two inches 

 long, perennial ; leaves bipiunate ; pinnules gashed, smooth- 

 ish ; five filamenta fertile. It flowers in March and April. 

 Native of the Cape. 



58. Pelargonium Barbatum ; Bearded Crane's BUI. Stem- 

 less : root rapaceous, simple; leaves pinnate; pinnas pinna- 

 tifid, lanceolate, linear, acute, bearded at the tip ; five fila- 

 menta fertile ; petals linear-wedge-shaped, blunt, half turned 

 back, very pale rose colour ; the two upper ones approxi- 

 mating, twice as broad as the rest, sometimes emarginate, 

 and marked below with two red lines ; the three lower ones 

 have only one line. The umbels and their stalks are downy. 

 It flowers in April. Native of the Cape. 



59. Pelargonium Melananthon ; Dark-flowered Crane's 

 BUI. Stemless : root rapaceous, simple ; leaves pinnate, 

 somewhat hispid ; pinnas lobe-gashed, blunt; five filamenta 

 fertile ; petal wedge-linear, blunt, upright, and white to the 

 middle, reflex, and very dark purple above. It has but 

 very little smell when bruised ; and flowers in April and May. 

 Native of the Cape. 



60. Pelargonium Triphyllum ; Three-leaved Cranes Bill. 

 Stemless : root rapaceous, simple ; leaves ternate crenate, 

 smooth ; five filamenta fertile ; petals wedge-shaped, blunt, 

 upright at bottom, and thence spreading very wide, rose- 

 coloured, a little longer than the calix ; the two upper ones 

 almost twice as wide as the others, a little longer, with blood- 

 red dots below ; style and stigma of a very dark blood-red 

 colour. It flowers in April. Native of the Cape. 



61. Pelargonium Heterophyllum ; Various-leaved Crane's 

 Bill. Stemless : root rapaceous, simple ; leaves ternate and 

 entire, smooth, ciliate ; leaflets often lobed ; five filamenta 

 fertile ; petals wedge-shaped, springing from a long upright 

 claw, turned back at top, blunt, twice as long as the calix, 

 white ; the two upper ones a little wider, with a long dark 

 blood-red spot above the claws. When bruised it has the 

 smell of turpentine, and flowers in March and April. Native 

 of the Cape. 



62. Pelargonium Nervifolium ; Nerve-leaved Crane's Bill. 

 Stemless : root rapaceous, simple; leaves ternate, three-lobed, 

 and entire, many-nerved, smooth, prickly, ciliate at the edge ; 

 five filamenta fertile ; petals twice as long as the calix, wedge- 

 shaped, very blunt, reflex, and spreading very much, white; 

 the two upper ones wider, with two branching red stripes 

 arising from the base. It has a slight smell of turpentine 

 when bruised. It flowers in March and April. Native of 

 the Cape. 



63. Pelargonium Longifolium ; Long-leaved Crane's Bill. 

 Stemless : root rapaceous, simple ; leaves lanceolate, acute, 

 smooth, the older ones often pinnate ; four filamenta fertile ; 

 petals wedge-shaped, blunt, half reflex, uniformly red purple; 

 the two upper ones a little wider. The flower-stalk is soli- 

 tary, three or four inches high, bearing about three unequal, 

 downy, partial stalks, accompanied by a leaf or two, each 

 terminating in a downy umbel of several rose-coloured flow- 

 ers. It flowers in March and April. Native of the Cape. 



64. Pelargonium^Ciliatunf : Ciliated Crane's Bill. Stem- 

 less : root rapaceous, subsimple ; leaves lanceolate, acute at 

 both ends, ciliate, smooth underneath, hairy above, often 

 appendicled ; five filamenta fertile ; petals linear, cuneiform, 

 bluntish, erect at bottom, but spreading very much at top, 

 twice as long as the calix, pale yellow ; the three lower 

 unspotted ; the two upper, above the claw to the middle of 



the border, dark blood-red. It flowers in May. Native of 

 the Cape. 



65. Pelargonium Depressum ; Flat-umbelled Cranes Bill. 

 Stemless : root rapaceous, simple ; leaves narrow, lanceolate, 

 acute, smooth ; umbels finally depressed, smooth ; four fila- 

 menta fertile ; peduncles about eight, an inch long, some- 

 what villose, channelled, forming at first a convex umbel, 

 but afterwards spreading out so much that the umbel is flat 

 and depressed. It flowers in March and April. Native of 

 the Cape. 



66. Pelargonium Longrflorum; Long-flowered Crane's Bill. 

 Stemless : root rapaceous, simple ; leaves lanceolate, acute, 

 smoothish ; four filamenta fertile ; petals very long, linear, 

 sharpish, channelled, erect at bottom, but spreading very 

 much above, an inch and half long, very pale yellow, with 

 a longitudinal purple band above the claw, of a very deep 

 colour in the uppermost ones. The uppermost petal is some- 

 times so deeply cloven, that the corolla appears to be six- 

 petalled. Native of the Cape. 



67. Pelargonium Chamsedryfolium ; Germander-leaved 

 Crane's Bill. Peduncles one or two flowered. Stems her- 

 baceous, decumbent ; leaves oblong, blunt, serrate, villose ; 

 five filamenta fertile ; root branching, annual. The whole 

 plant villose, and smelling rather disagreeably. Petals the 

 length of the calix, wedge-shaped, blunt, upright, spreading 

 a little at top, white with a dark purple disk, the two upper- 

 most twice as broad as the other three ; antheree yellow ; 

 germen hirsute. Native place uncertain. 



68. Pelargonium Trichostemon ; Hairy-stamined Crane's 

 Bill. Peduncles few-flowered ; leaves roundish, ovate, 

 bluntly serrate, velvety. Stem biennial, almost erect; fila- 

 menta hirsute, five fertile ; root branched, biennial ; petals 

 very blunt, uniformly red purple, spreading very much above 

 the claws, the two upper ones very wide, and roundish, the 

 other three oblong. It flowers in March, and the following 

 months. 



69. Pelargonium Coronopifolium ; Buck's-horn Plantain- 

 leaved Crane's Bill. Peduncles two-flowered ; leaves lance- 

 olate, linear, toothserrate, smooth above, somewhat rough- 

 haired underneath. Root branching, the thickness of a reed, 

 brown, long ; steins few, procumbent, half a foot high, round, 

 perennial, more slender by half than a reed ; petals blunt, 

 spreading very much, white at the claws, the rest purple ; 

 the two upper ones very wide, obovate, with the claw on 

 each side produced and wedge-shaped ; the three lower from 

 a narrow claw oblong. The little smell it has is unpleasant. 

 It flowers in June and July. There is a variety with smaller 

 flowers, with the claw of the two upper petals white, and 

 crowned with a deep-red band. 



70. Pelargonium Bullatum; Bladder-leaved Crane's BM. 

 Peduncles two-flowered ; corollas four-petalled. Stem bien- 

 nial ; leaves ternate, pinnatifidly lobed, somewhat hispid on 

 both sides; five filamenta fertile; root branched; petals 

 always four, very pale purple or flesh-colour, twice as long 

 as the calix; antheree scarlet; stigma blood-red; fruit hir- 

 sute, two inches long. It flowers in the summer, and when 

 rubbed has an unpleasant smell. 



71. Pelargonium Betonicum ; Bctony-leaved Crane's Bill. 

 Peduncles few-flowered ; corollas four-petalled. Stem bien- 

 nial ; leaves pinnatifid, lobed, somewhat rough-haired ; five 

 filamenta fertile ; root brown, round, the thickness of a reed, 

 biennial ; petals wedge-shaped, blunt, spreading, flesh-co- 

 loured or white, twice as long as the calix ; the two upper 

 ones much larger, and having two branching red lines. It 

 flowers in summer, has but little smell, and is rough-haired 

 all over. 



