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ERODIUM Gussonii. 
Gmsone's Heron' s-hill. 
E. Gussonii, umbellis plurifloris, foliis cordatis lobatis 
crenulatis moUissime tomentosis: caule petiolis 
pedunculisque villosissimis ; pilis reflexis, stipulis 
maximis scariosis. 
Erodium Gussonii. Tenor^prodr.fl. neap, p, 39. Botan. 
magaz. 2445. 
Erodium Gussoni. Flor, neap. p. 97. t. 63. Tenord 
hort. reg. neap. p. 38. 
Erodium Goussoni. Link mum. 2. p. 185. 
Perennial. Herbaceous. Stems ascending, thickly 
clothed with reflexed hairs. Leaves cordate, ovate 
bluntly rounded, entire, 3 to 5-lobed, crenulate, softly 
toiftentose, the sinuses of the bottom ones overlapping 
at the base: lobes bluntly rounded. Petioles very 
thick, slightly flattened and furrowed on the upper 
side and rounded on the lower, thickly clothed with 
white reflexed villous hairs. Stipules large, red, membra- 
naceous, scariose, bluntly rounded. Peduncles longer 
than the leaves, thickly clothed with reflexed villous 
hairs. Umbels several-flowered. Involucre of 2 or 3 
large concave, cordate, membranaceous, scariose 
bractes. Pedicles long and slender, clothed with short 
white hairs. Cali/x of 5 sepals, which are unequal 
oblong, concave, plaited or channelled, blunt, but 
terminated with a short rigid arista inserted a' little 
below the point. Petals 5, unequal in size, nearly 
double the length of the calyx, the lowermost rather 
largest, a little wrinkled, of a rosy purple, the two 
upper ones marked a little above the base with a large 
