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ERODIUM miilticaule. 
Many -branched Heromi! s-hill. 
IE. multicaule, pedunculis multifloris, foliis ternato- 
pinnatifidis : segmentis oblongis acutis inciso-serra- 
j ', tis, petalis acutis calyce longioribus, caule ramo- 
L ^ sissimo adscendente. 
Erodium multicaule. Fischer MS S. Nobis in JVhitley's 
catalogue, p. 31. col. L Link enum. 2. p. 184. 
Root perennial. Stems much branched, ascending, 
thickly clothed with short white unequal reflexed hairs. 
Leaves ternate or pinnatifid, hairy on each side, of a 
dark green colour : leaflets sessile, oblong, acute, lower 
ones deeply cut and sharply toothed, middle one pin- 
natifid, sharply and unequally cut and toothed. Pe- 
tioles shorter than the leaf, flattened on the upper side 
and convex on the lower, thickly covered with short 
unequal hairs, as are the peduncles, pedicles, and calyx. 
Stipules lanceolate, taper-pointed, membranaceous. 
Peduncles many-flowered. Lnvolucre of several short 
lanceolate taper-pointed membranaceous bractes. Pe- 
dicles unequal in length, the upper ones longest, up- 
right when in flower, afterwards declining. Calyx of 
5 sepals, which are unequal, oblong, many-nerved, and 
terminated with a rigid bluntish arista, that is nearly 
as long as the sepal. Sepals all reflexed. Petals 5, of 
a bright blue purple, elliptic, acute, the two upper ones 
rather widest, all fringed at the base. Filaments 10, 
united at the base, 5 bearing anthers. Style none. 
Stigmas 5, sessile, purple, reflexed. 
Our drawing of this plant was taken at the Nursery 
3f Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Mihie, at Fulham, 
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