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2. Geranium potentilloides (I/Herit. in DC. Prodr. i. 639) ; caule decumbente raraoso superne 
pctiolis pedunculisque appressc rarius patentim pilosis cauisque, foliis 5-7-lobis partitisve segment is 
cuneatis trifidis acutis, pedunculis 1-floris bibradeolatis, petalis pnllidis, capsiilis lavibus puree pilosis 
obscure carinatis, seminibus minute punctulatis. — Hook. Journ. But. i. £58 ; Ft. '• 
259, 1035.) 
Yar. £. parvijlora; floribus minoribus. — G. parviflorum, Willi. En. 710; DC. Prodr, L 642 j // -i. 
Journ. Bot. i. 252. (Gunn, 63, 453.) 
Hab. Abundant throughout the Colony. — (Fl. all summer.) [v. v.) 
Disteib. South-eastern Australia, New South Wales, New Zealand, and Auekland Island. 
A smaller, more straggling, slender-stemmed plant than 0. diimbm, with unallet leaves, more 
and often much larger flowers; the latter however in var. (3 are quite as small as in U. ritfMofMB. 
and more long, much diffusely branched, weak and prostrate, usually pilose or silky, with uppuj — ul, ran lv patent 
hairs. Leaves §-1 inch broad, five- to seven-lobed to the base; the lobes obcuneate or narrow-oblong, blunt, trun- 
cate, or acute. Peduncles generally two- sometimes one-flowered. Flowers varying from |tof inch across. Sepals 
glabrous or pilose, or pubescent with appressed hairs. Petals white, pink, or purplish-red, longer than tin si-pal*. 
Seeds punctate. 
3. Geranium brevicaule (Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. 252); radice crassa, caulibus abbreviate, pe- 
dunculis petiolisque pilosis pilis longis retrorsum appressis patulisve rarius glabratis, foliis 5-7-partitis 
lobatisve, lobis cuneatis trifidis v. incisis, lobulis acutis v. obtusis, pedunculis validis 1-floris infra florem 
dense sericeo-barbatis basin versus bibracteolatis, calycibus villosis, petalis pnllidis, eaptolii pilosis leevibus, 
seminibus kevibus v. minutissime punctulatis. — Fl. N. Zeal. i. 10. (Gunn, 250.) 
Hab. Alpine districts, elev. 3000-4000 feet ; common, Gunn.—{Y\. Jan.) 
Distrib. Mountains of New Zealand. 
This appears to me to be probably an alpine state of &. potmtilioidm or iimeett m , which, owing to the enmate 
of the regions it inhabits, forms very short stems, or none at all, and sends it- Leaves and peduncles up from ven 
near the root, It is stunted in all its parts, and more villous in many, especially on the peduncles.— Root vm 
stout and woody, a character no doubt induced by climate. 
Gen. II. PELARGONIUM, L'Herit. 
Sepala 5, supremo in calcar cum pedunculo adnatum producto. Petala 4-5, ineequalia v. subrequalia. 
Stamina 4-7 fertilia, reliqua sterilia. Carpellorum rostra intus barbata. 
A very large and almost exclusively South African genus of excessively variable plants, of which there are very 
few Australian species. It differs from Geranium in the irregular flowers, in one sepal having a spur which is adnate 
to the pedicel of the flower, in the irregular, scale-like, sterile filaments, and in the beaks of the carpels being bearded 
along the inner face. (Name from neXapyos, a stork; in allusion to the beaked carpels.) 
1. Pelargonium australe (Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 675) ; foliis late ovato-orbiculatis cordatis sublobatis 
crenato-dentatis, pedunculis multifloris, fructiferis erectis, petalis calyce longioribus. — DC. Prodr. i. 654. 
An P. odoratissimum, Linn. Sp. PI. ? 
Var. a. major ; suberecta, patentim pilosa tomentosa v. villosa, sepalis villosis. — P. australe, Jacq. 
Eclog. i. 149. t. 100. {Gunn, 61, 787.) 
Var. fi.glabrata; minor, glabrata, caulibus gracilibus, sepalis pubescentibus rarius villosis. {Gunn, 
658.) 
Hab. Abundant in many parts of the Colony, especially near the sea.— (Flowering throughout the 
