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PELARGONIUM confertifolium 
Close-leaved Stork's-hill. 
P. confertifolium, caule sufFruticoso ramoso ; ramis bre- 
vibus erecto-adscendentibus confertis squamoso-rugo- 
sis : foliis confertis tematis pinnatifidis simplicibus quin- 
qiielobisve molliter undique villosis : foliolis lobisque 
imbricatis obtusis crenato-dentatis, scapo simplici, um- 
bella multiflora subprolifera, petalis omnibus obovatis, 
tubo nectarifero calyce reflexo duplo longiore. 
Pelargonium confertifolium. Swt. hort. hrit.p. 77. n. 27. 
Geranium ardens, minor. Andrews's geran. c. ic. 
Stem sufFruticose, short and rugged, erect, about 4 or 
6 inches in height, much branched : branches short, very 
much crowded, erect or ascending, very rugged and un- 
equal, scaly, occasioned by the remains of the stipules and 
petioles, the upper part thickly clothed with soft villous 
hairs. Leaves very variable, some ternate or pinnatifid, 
others deeply 5-lobed and simple, covered all over with 
soft villous hairs : leaflets, segments, or lobes, obtusely 
rounded, and notched or toothed with blunt rounded 
teeth, imbricate or lapping over each other. Petioles 
slightly flattened on the upper side, and rounded on the 
lower, densely clothed with long, white, spreading, unequal, 
villous hairs. Stipules very short, broadly cordate, acute, 
fringed, and joined to the base of the petioles. Scape 
simple, cylindrical, elongated, thickly clothed with long 
spreading unequal hairs. Umbel many-flowered, generally 
proliferous. Involucre of several linear acute villous brac- 
tes. Pedicles long and slender, unequal in length, thickly 
clothed with unequal hairs. Calyx 5 -cleft, segments lan- 
ceolate, scarcely acute, villous, the upper one broadest, 
erect, the others reflexed. Petals 5, all roundly obovate, 
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