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and dark red and light red flovvers of a fine showy ap- 

 pearance. It is a free-growing hybrid, and an abundant 

 bloomer. 



Pelargo^nium rigescens, stiff-leaved Stork's-bill, S. G. 

 112, a shrubby branching stem, with roundly cordate con- 

 cave leaves, and pale red flowers finely varied by dark 

 lines. A curious hybrid, of easy culture. 



P. hirtum, hairy Stock' s-bill, S. G. 113, a shrubby suc- 

 culent stem, with decompound leaves, and numerous linear 

 bluntish leaflets ; the flowers small, and of a pale and deep 

 red. A curious succulent species, requiring care as to 

 water. 



P. tripartitum, brittle-stalked Stork's-bill, S. G. 15, a 

 shrubby branching stem, with glaucescent ternate fleshy 

 leaves, and long-petaled red and white flowers ; the plant 

 rather tender. 



P. platypetalon, broad-petaled Stork's-bill, or Oldenburgh 

 Geranium, S. G. 116, a shrubby branching stem, with 

 cordate, slightly lobed, unequally toothed leaves, and fine 

 large white flowers, beautifully streaked with brownish red 

 or purple : the plant hardy and of easy culture. 



P. Scarbordvice, Countess of Scarborough's Stork's-bill^ 

 or Lady Scarborough's Geranium, S. G. 117, a shrubby 

 branching stem, with small subtrifid or deeply three-lobed 

 leaves, and fine dark and light red and white flowers. The 

 plant flowers early in spring and late in autumn, and has a 

 fine lemon-like scent. 



P. viscoslssimum, viscous Stork's-bill, S. G. 118, a shrubby 

 erect branching stem^ with palmately five or seven lobed 

 clammy leaves, and heads of white flowers marked with 

 light red. It is a hardy plant, and an original species. 



P. formdsum, variegated-flowered Stork's-bill, S. G. 120, 

 a shrubby branching stem, with roundly cordate, undulate. 



