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PELARGONIUM adulterinum. 
Hoary trifid-leaved Stork' s-hilL 
P. adulterinum, pedunculis 2-4-floris, foliis cordatis 
trilobis obtusis villosis mollibus, stipulis latis cor- 
datis, tubo nectarifero calyce breviori. 
Pelargonium adulterinum. UHerit. geran. t. 34. 
milden. sp. pi. 3. p. 683. Pers. syn. 2. p, 233. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4, p. 180. 
KutusofF's Geranium. Hortulanorum. 
Stem shrubby, of a woody texture, very much 
branched; branches spreading, thickly covered with 
long soft hairs. Leaves cordate, in the winter season 
slightly 3-lobed, in spring and summer deeply 3-lobed 
or trifid, densely clothed on both sides with short soft 
down of a whitish colour; lobes very obtuse, unequally 
toothed with short roundish teeth; nerves prominent 
branching in all directions. Petioles about the length 
of the leaf, flattened and slightly furrowed above, 
thickly covered with soft white hairs. Stipules short, 
broadly cordate, ending abruptly in an acute point, 
sometimes toothed, villous. Peduncles villous, 2 to 4 
flowered. Involucre of 4 or 6 bractes; bractes ovate, 
concave, very downy. Pedicles short but unequal in 
length. Calyx 5-cleft, segments very unequal, erects 
lanceolate, acute, concave, thickly covered with soft 
villous hairs. Nectariferous tube short and thick, 
about half as long as the calyx. Petals 5, the 2 upper- 
most widely obovate, of a dark red, approaching to 
purple, marked with dark stripes from the base, which 
branch in all directions, lower ones oblong, obtuse of a 
dark rose-colour. Filaments 10, united at the base, 7 
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