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PELARGONIUM polytrichum. 
Many-haired Stm^Ws-hill. 
P. polytrichum, foliis cordatis utrinque pilosis : inferioribus 
undulato-lobatis inaequaliter cartilagineo-dentatis, supe- 
rioribus cuneato-cochleatis sublobatis inciso-dentatis, 
stipulis oblongis acutis subdentatis ciliatis, pedunculis 
plurifloris, tubo nectarifero calyce reflexo subaequali. 
Pelargonium polytrichum. Swt. hm^t. hrit. p. — . n. 385. 
Stem shrubby, erect or a little flexuose, branching, 
thickly clothed with unequal long spreading villous white 
hairs, as is every other part of the plant, except the corolla. 
Leaves cordate, acute, hollow at the base; lower ones 
very large and spreading, very much undulate, obsoletely 
5 or 7-lobed, flaccid, unequally toothed with numerous 
rigid cartilaginous teeth ; strongly and numerously nerved 
underneath, the nerves branching: upper ones wedge- 
shaped or spoon-shaped, lobed or incised, deeply and 
sharply toothed with rigid unequal teeth. Petioles long, 
much flattened on the upper side, and convex on the lower. 
Stipules oblong or ovately lanceolate, taper-pointed, gene- 
rally toothed, and fringed with numerous long spreading 
hairs. Peduncles long, cylindrical, several-flowered. 
Involucre cup-shaped, consisting of 6 or 7 broad ovate, 
acute, keeled bractes, some of which are frequently toothed. 
Pedicles longer than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments 
broadly lanceolate, acute, the upper one erect, the others 
reflexed. Nectariferous tube about the length of the 
calyx, flattened on each side, and gibbous at the base. 
Petals 5, the 2 upper ones obovate, oblique at the base, 
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