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PELARGONIUM glaucum. 
Glaucous-leaved Stork's- bill. 
P. glaucum, pedunculis 1-2 florisve, foliis lanceolatis 
integerrimis acuminatis concavis glaucis, stipulis 
lineari-subulatis, caule erecto, tabo nectarifero sub- 
sessili calyce quintuplo longiori. 
Pelargonium glaucum. Willden, sp. pi. 3. p. 654. Pers. 
syn. 2. p. 230. Hort. Keiv. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 170. 
LHerit. geran. t. 29. Hort. sub. land. p. 151. n. 
74. 
Geranium glaucum. Andrews's geran. c. ic. 
Geranium lanceolatum. Botan. magaz. 56. Cavan. 
diss. 4. p. 235. t. 102. f. 2 ; nan Andrewsii. 
Stem shrubby, erect, with few branches. Branches 
erect, long and slender, slightly angular, smooth and 
glaucous ; young ones tinged with red, particularly at 
the joints. Leaves lanceolate, or spoon-shaped, entire 
or seldom toothed, taper-pointed, concave, quite smooth 
and glaucous. Petioles long and slender, nearly cylin- 
drical, slightly flattened and furrowed, on the upper 
side, a little swollen at the base; on the flowering 
branches much shorter and thicker. Stipules hnear or 
awl-shaped, entire, taper- pointed. Peduncles cylindri- 
cal, 1 or 2-flowered, either axillary or opposite to the 
leaf. Involucre of 2 lanceolate, concave, taper-pointed 
bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, concave, 
acuminate, the upper one erect, the others reflexed. 
Nectariferous tube nearly sessile, much flattened on 
both sides, about 5 times the length of the calyx. 
Petals 5, the 2 uppermost largest, obovate, at first of 
a buflf colour, but changing to a clear white, with a 
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