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spoon-shaped, entire, smooth, and glaucous leaves ; and 

 pale yellow and white flowers spotted with red. It is a 

 beautiful and singular plant, somewhat tender, and apt to 

 suffer in winter from wet. 



Pelargo^nium scBpeflorens, frequent-flowering Stork's- 

 billj S.G. 58, a shrubby brown stem, with flat cordate five- 

 lobed leaves, and red flowers with darker red and black spots. 

 It is a desirable hybrid, as being in flower the greater part of 

 the year. It begins to bloom. Sweet observes, at the end of 

 summer, ' and if kept in a warmish situation it will con- 

 tinue to flower through the winter tiU late in spring.' 



P. bellulum, neat Stork's-bill, S.G. 60, a shrubby dwarf 

 stem, with five-lobed wedge-shaped leaves, and dark red 

 flowers finely veined with darker red, purple, and black. 

 It forms a pretty little bush, and is profusely covered with 

 flowers all the summer. 



P. gibbdsum, knotted Stork's-bill, S.G. 61, a shrubby 

 succulent stem swollen at the joints, the branches erect or 

 slightly spreading ; the leaves ternate, smooth, and glaucous, 

 and the flowers of a greenish yellow. It is a curious plant, 

 esteemed for the pleasant odour it diffuses in the evening 

 when in bloom, though it is quite scentless during the day. 



P. optdbile, desirable Stork's biU, S.G. 62, a shrubby 

 much-branched stem, with rough, cordate, five-lobed leaves, 

 and large flowers, white blotched with dark purple. It is a 

 hardy plant, and makes a compact little bush eighteen inches 

 high. 



P. kifbridum, mule Stork's-bill, S.G. 63, a shrubby stem, 

 with numerous short flexuose branches, round kidney-shaped 

 leaves, and deep scarlet flowers with dark fines and without 

 white. It is considered an original species, notwithstanding 

 the specific name : it is rather tender, and requires a soil of 

 turfy loam and leaf mould, and to be not over- watered in 

 winter. 



