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PELARGONIUM millefoliatum. 
Milfoil-leaved Stork's- bill. 
P. millefoliatum, subacaule, foliis decompositis glabris : 
foliolis laciniatis ; segmentis canaliculatis linearibus, 
umbellis multifloris, calycibus reflexis, tubo necta- 
rifero subsessili calyce quintuple longiore. 
Pelargonium millefoliatum. Colv. catal. ed,2. p. 22. 
col. 1. 
Root tuberous, branching out into other smaller 
tubers of different shapes and sizes. Stem none, or 
very short. Leaves decompound, smooth, and of a 
dark green shining colour; leaflets slightly decurrent, 
and much divided ; segments channelled, linear, with 
rather a bluntish termination. Petioles long and 
slender, nearly cylindrical, smooth, except a few hairs 
scattered here and there. Stipules cordate, acute, 
joined to the swollen base of the petioles. Peduncle 
simple, long and slender, thickly clothed with unequal 
spreading hairs. Umbel many-flowered. Involucre of 
numerous lanceolate fringed bractes. Calyx 5-cleft; 
segments oblong, obtuse, ciliate, all reflexed. Nectari- 
ferous tube about five times as long as the calyx, flat- 
tened, and furrowed on each side. Petals 5, obovate, 
the two uppermost widest, emarginate, of a dingy brown 
colour, marked irregularly through the centre with a 
darker colour. Filaments 10, short and erect, united 
at the base, seven bearing anthers, one of the anthers 
about half the size of the others, on a flat spatula- 
shaped filament. Pollen pale yellow. Style very short, 
hairy. Stigmas 5, reflexed. 
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