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PELARGONIUM ringens. 
Ringent-Jiowered Storh's-bill. 
P. ringenSy subcaulescens, foliis pinnatis pinnatifidisque 
canescenti-pubescentibus, foliolis segmentisque cuneatis 
pinnatifido-laciniatis grosse dentatis, scapo folioso pani- 
culato, petalis inferioribus concavis subconniventibus. 
Pelargonium ringens. Colv. catal. ed. 2. p. 22. col. 2. 
jRoo^ tuberous, scaly, branching out into numerous 
small tubers. Stem very short, erect, branching a little, 
rough and rugged, occasioned by the remains of the leaves 
that are fallen. Leaves long and spreading, pinnate or pin- 
natifid, and clothed with a soft hoary pubescence : leaflets 
or segments wedge-shaped, unequally cut and toothed with 
large roundish teeth, lower ones pinnatifid. Petioles long 
and rather slender, flattened a little on the upper side, and 
rounded on the lower, more or less clothed with soft spread- 
ing white hairs. Stipules attached to the base of the 
petioles, ovately-lanceolate, taper-pointed. Scape leafy, 
branching, villosely hairy, as are the peduncles and calyx. 
Umbels many-flowered. Involucre of 6 broadly lanceolate, 
acute bractes. Calyx 5 -cleft, upper segment erect, concave, 
bluntish ; the others reflexed, and more acute. Nectarife- 
rous tube unequal in length, sometimes scarcely longer 
than the calyx, at others more than double the length, hairy. 
Flowers of a light scarlet, ringent, upper petals oblong, 
reflexed, marked at the base with a few dark, branching 
lines : lower ones smaller, concave, more or less connivent. 
Filaments 10, connected, 7 bearing anthers, which in our 
specimens were all imperfect. Style short. Stigmas 5, 
reflexed. 
