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PELARGONIUM pyrethriifolium. 
Feverfew-leaved Stork^ s-hill. 
V. pyrethriifolium, pedunculis 2-3 florisve, foliis cor- 
datis palmato-bipinnatifidis scabris margine planis : 
segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis dentatis^ pe- 
talis inferis ligulatis, tubo nectarifero longitudine 
calycis. 
Stem shrubby, much branched; branches short, 
thickly clothed with soft villous unequal hairs, as are 
the petioles, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves cordate, 
palmately bipinnatifid with flat margins, rough and 
hairy on both sides, of a hoary colour : segments ob- 
longly lanceolate, obtuse, unequally toothed with blunt 
rounded teeth, or sometimes entire. Petioles about 
tlie length or a little longer than the leaves, slightly 
flattened on the upper side and rounded on the lower, 
a little widened at the base. Stipules cordately lan- 
ceolate, oblique, taper-pointed and fringed. Peduncles 
cylindrical, 2 or 3 flowered. Involucre of 4 oblong or 
lanceolate, acute, fringed bractes. Pedicles about 
double the length of the nectariferous tube. Cali/x 5- 
cleft, upper segment ovate, bluntish, erect, the others 
lanceolate, reflexed. Nectarifer-ous tube about the 
length of the calyx, much flattened on each side, and 
gibbous at the base. Petals 5, the two uppermost 
spatulately obovate, of an orangy red colour, marked 
in the centre with a purple patch which joins a few 
purple stripes from the base: lower petals narrowly 
ligulate, of a lighter colour. Filaments connected 
at the base, 7 bearing anthers. Stifle red, very hairy. 
Stigmas 5, red, reflexed. 
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