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PELARGONIUM multiradiatum. 
Many-rayed Stork' s-hill. 
V. multiradiatum, subcaulescens, umbellis 20-30-flo- 
risve, foliis inferioribus pinnatis hirsutis ; foliolis 
pinnatifidis ; segmentis oblongis obtusis inciso-den- 
tatis : superioribus decompositis glabriusculis ; seg- 
mentis lanceolatis obtusis integerrimis incisisve, 
floribus pentandris. 
Pelargonium multiradiatum. Spreng. Nov.prov. hort. 
ac. Hal. et Ber. Wendl. coll. cum icone. Dietr. 
Nachtr. 6. 61. Link enum. 2. p. 191. 
Suhcaulescent. Root tuberous, very large, brown 
and scaly. Stem short. Leaves very large, variable ; 
lower ones pinnate, very hairy ; leaflets pinnatifid ; seg- 
ments oblong, obtuse, deeply incised and toothed with 
blunt rounded teeth : stem-leaves decompound with re- 
volute points, branching to a great distance, nerves 
very hairy, leaflets very variable, some lanceolate and 
entire or slightly toothed, others bifid, pinnatifid, or 
deeply divided ; segments falcate, blunt and smoothish, 
inclining to glaucous ; leaf on the floiver-stalk smaller 
and pinnate, with long white hairs scattered on the 
midrib; leaflets pinnatifid, segments falcate, lanceo- 
late, obtuse, entire or deeply toothed with revolute 
points. Petioles nearly cylindrical, not strong enough 
to support the leaf without assistance, thickly clothed 
with long white villous hairs. Stipules kidney-shaped 
or widely cordate, soon withering, and turning brown 
and membranaceous. Flower-stalk proceeding from 
the crown of the plant, in our specimen above a foot 
and half high, glaucous, and thickly covered with long 
villous hairs. Peduncles 3, glaucous, all springing 
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