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PELARGONIUM flavum. 
Yellow Carrot-leaved Stork's-bili. 
V.Jlavum, subcaulescens, foliis decomposite laciniatis hir- 
sutis; laciniis linearibus, umbeliis multifloris. DC. 
prodr. 1. p. 662. 
Pelargonium flavum. Hort. Kew. ed. I. v. Q. j». 418. 
ed. 2. V. 4. p. 166. Willden. sp. pi. 3. p. 651. Pers. 
p. 228. 
Geranium flavum. Linn.f. suppl. 9,57. 
Geranium daucifolium. Murr. goelt. 1780. p. 13. t. 4. 
Cav. diss. 4. t. 120. /. 2. 
Root very large, tuberous, clothed with a brown cracked 
bark. Stem very short, decumbent. Leaves doubly com- 
pound, much branched, laciniate, very hairy, of a pale 
yellowish green : leaflets and segments very small, linear, 
bluntish, the points curved inwards, bearded. Stipules 
roundly ovate, membranaceous, fringed. Scape simple, 
swollen at the base, thickly clothed with spreading unequal 
hairs, producing a single umbel of flowers. Umhel many- 
flowered. Flowers delightfully fragrant in the evening and 
at night, but without scent during the day, of a greenish 
yellow colour. Involucre of several unequal, lanceolate, 
bluntish bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, upper segment largest, 
erect, concave, bluntish, the others narrower, reflexed. 
Nectariferous tube more than three times the length of the 
calyx, sessile, hairy. Petals 5, a little reflexed, the two 
upper ones rather largest, broadly obovate ; lower ones of 
the same shape, but narrower, of a greenish yellow, faintly 
striped with brown. Filaments 10, united at the base, one 
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