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PELARGONIUM hirtiim. 
Hairy Stork's- bill. 
P. hirtum, umbellis S-S-florisve, foliis bipinnato-supra- 
decompositis hirtis : foliolis linearibus obtusis, caule 
carnoso squamoso subdecumbente, petalis superi- 
oribus emarginatis, tubo nectarifero calyce duplo 
breviori. 
Pelargonium hirtum. IVillden. sp.pl. 3. p. 689. Jacq. 
ic. rar. 3. t. 536. Collect. 2. p. 144. Pers. syn. 2. 
p. 234. 
Geranium hirtum. Cavan. diss. 4. p. 258. 1. 117. f. 2. 
Geranium abrotanifolium. Andrews's ger'an. c. ic. 9 
nec aliorum. 
Stem shrubby, succulent, rather decumbent, irre- 
gularly swollen, in some places quite slender, scaly, 
owing to the cracking of the brown hairy bark, and 
where the footstalks of the leaves are dropped off 
there are tufts of white villous hairs ; Jlowering branches 
slenderer, and divided, bearing numerous umbels of 
flowers, thickly clothed with unequal woolly hairs, as 
is every other part of the plant except the corolla. 
Leaves decompound, divided into innumerable linear 
bluntish leaflets, points recurved or revolute. Petioles 
slender, flattened and furrowed on the upper side and 
convex on the lower, much dilated at the base. Sti- 
pules lanceolately subulate, entire, joined to the base 
of the petioles. Peduncles much longer than the leaves, 
cylindrical, rigid, 3 to 5 flowered, hvmlucre of nume- 
rous unequal lanceolate or linear taper-pointed fringed 
bractes. Pedicles stifi", unequal in length, longer than 
the nectariferous tube. Calyx 5-cleft, segments blunt, 
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