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ERODIUM hymenodes. 
Three-leaved Herori s-hill. 
E. hymenodes, pedunculis multifloris, foliis obtusis in- 
ciso-dentatis: inferioribus ternatis; superioribus tri- 
lobis, caule erecto. IVillden. sp. pi. 3. f. 635. 
Botan. magaz. 1174. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. p. 157. 
Pers. syn. 2. p. 225. VHerit. geran. t. 4. 
Erodium trilobatum. Jacq. ic. rar. 3. t. 508. Collect. 
4. p. 200. 
Geranium hymenodes. Andrews's reposit. 413. 
Geranium trifolium. Cav. diss. 4. p. 223. t. 97. f. 3. 
Geranium geifolium. DesJ^. atl. 2. p. 108. 
Perennial. Herbaceous, increasing yearly in size 
above ground, and branching off a little. Stalks nu- 
merous, erect, thickly covered with soft unequal hairs. 
Leaves opposite, lower ones ternate, upper ones deeply 
3-lobed; loles obtuse, unequally toothed, with round 
blunt teeth. Petioles flat on the upper side and 
rounded below, thickly clothed with soft villous hairs. 
Stipules membranaceous, white, some lanceolate, others 
oblong or ovate, pubescent. Peduncles many-flowered, 
villous. Involucre of 4 or 6 membranaceous bractes 
united into one at the base, and slightly pubescent. 
Pedicles arranged in 2 rows before the flowers expand, 
aftei-wards spreading all round and ascending when in 
seed. Calyx of 5 sepals ; sepals ovate or broadly lan- 
ceolate, obtuse, concave, with a membranaceous mar- 
gin, densely covered with soft villous hairs. Corolla 
of 5 petals, nearly equal in size, longer than the calyx^ 
nearly orbicular, and ciliated at the base: upper petals 
