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PELARGONIUM verbensefolium. 
Pervain- leaved Stork' s-hilL 
P. verhenxefolium, umbellis 3-5 florisve, foliis ternatis 
pilosis scabris : foliolis sessilibus pinnatifido-incisis 
serratis acutis, petalis inferis linearibus patentibus, 
calycibus reflexis, tubo nectarifero calyce breviori. 
Stem shrubby, branching ; branches rigid, flexuose, 
thickly clothed with soft villous spreading unequal 
hairs. Leaves ternate, rough and hairy on both sides : 
leaflets sessile, spreading, acute ; lower ones often 
bifid, upper one pinnatifid or deeply cut and sharply 
sawed. Petioles flattened on the upper side and con- 
vex on the lower, dilated at the base, thickly clothed 
with soft villous hairs, as are the peduncles and calyx. 
Stipules broadly lanceolate, concave, taper-pointed, and 
ciliate. Peduncles growing in a kind of panicle, from 
3 to 5 flowered. Involucre of 5 or 6 very narrow sharp- 
pointed fringed bractes. Pedicles slender, unequal in 
length. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, acute, re- 
flexed. Nectariferous tube unequal in length, shorter 
than the calyx, flattened and furrowed on each side. 
Petals 5, the two upper ones broadly ligulate, of a 
pale lilac, marked on each side near the base with a 
purple forked spot, and several other little spots below 
it ; lower petals linear, spreading, of a lighter colour. 
Filaments 10, united at the base, only five bearing an- 
thers. Style red, hairy on the lower and smooth on 
the upper part. Stigmas 5, red, reflexed. 
This curious plant is a hybrid production, and ap- 
pears to be intermediate between P. graveolens and P. 
ternatum. The habit is nearest the former, and the 
flov/ers resemble the latter ; the leaves are as jiear 
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