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ERODIUM caucalifolium. 
Bur-parslei/ leaved HerovL s-hill. 
E, caucalifolium, acaule, pedunculis multifloris, foliis 
pinnatis: pinnis subpetiolatis pinnatifidis inciso- 
dentatis, petiolo com muni nudo hirto, petalis ovatis 
obtusis basi dense ciliatis calyce duplo longioribus. 
Perennial. Sfalkless. Leaves numerous, pinnate: 
pinnae alternate, pinnatifid or deeply dentated, hairy 
on both sides; segments lanceolate, acute, entire or 
rarely toothed, nerves prominent. Petiole flattened on 
both sides, slightly channelled above, hairy. Peduncles 
very long, hairy, and many-flowered. Flowers in a 
two-ranked umbel: pedicles widely spreading, a little 
swollen at the base. Calyx of 5 sepals : sepals concave, 
with a membranous margin, awned, very hairy. Co- 
rolla of 5 petals, twice as long as the calyx, ovate, ob- 
tuse, the two uppermost widest, of a bright rose colour, 
slightly marked with a darker colour at the base, 
something like Pelargonium: 3 lower petals rather 
smaller, rose-coloured, all densely ciliate at the base. 
Filaments 10, united at the base, 5 only bearing 
anthers. Germen villous. Arillus pubescent. Invo- 
lucre of one bracte, divided into many revolufe seg- 
ments. 
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We are indebted to Mr. W. Anderson, Curator of 
the Botanic Garden, Chelsea, for the opportunity of 
giving a figure of this beautiful, and, as far as we can 
trace, undescribed species of Erodium, which he raised 
from seed received from France under the name of E. 
alpinum; from which it abundantly differs, that being 
a branching plant, and its petioles toothed between 
the pinnee, this being without branches and the pe- 
