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PELARGONIUM dissectum. 
Dissected' leaved Stork* s- bill. 
P. dissectum, caule fruticoso ramoso difFuso, foliis cor- 
datis 5-7-partitis canesceati-pubescentibus; segmen- 
tis flabelliformibus imbricatis inciso-dentatis ob- 
tiisiS;, umbellis multifloris paniculatis, petalis sub- 
sequalibus, tubo nectarifero calyce subaequali aut 
paulo breviore. 
Pelargonium dissectum. Colv. catal. ed. 2. p, 23. col. 3. 
Stem shrubby, much branched ; branches spreading 
in various directions, rather succulent, thickly clothed 
with short white unequal hairs. Leaves cordate, 5 or 
7-parted, covered on both sides with a canescent pubes- 
cence, more or less undulate; segments fan-shaped, 
overlapping each other, more or less deeply cut and 
toothed, segments and teeth bluntish. Petioles long 
and slender, slightly flattened on the upper side and 
convex on the lower, much dilated at the base, thickly 
clothed with short hairs, as are the peduncles and caljrx. 
Stipules lanceolate, taper-pointed, joined to the base of 
the petioles. Peduncles panicled, cylindrical. Umbels 
many-flowered in a close head. Involucre of numerous 
broadly lanceolate, acute, keeled bractes. Pedicles un- 
equal in length, some not so long, others double the 
length of the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceo- 
late, acute, margins membranaceous, fringed, the upper 
one erect, the others reflexed. Petals 5, nearly equal 
in size, spatulately ligulate, of a pale blush ; the two 
upper ones slightly emarginate, with a dark forked spot 
in the centre, and several short purple lines from it to 
the base, that are more or less branched. Filaments 10, 
