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GERANIUM argenteum. 
Silvery 'leaved Crane* s- bill. 
G. argenteum, subcaulescens, pedunculis bifloris, foliis 
septempartitis utrinque sericeo-tomentosis: laciniis 
lineari-lanceolatis trifidis, petalis emarginatis. 
Geranium argenteum. Willden. sp.pl. 3. p. 707. Pers. 
si/n. 2. p. 236. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 188. 
Botan. magaz. 504. Cav. diss. 4. p. 205. t. 77./. 3. 
Stems very short, growing in clusters, thickly 
clothed with the brown persistent stipules. Leaves 7- 
parted, nearly to the base, thickly covered on both 
sides with a close silky toraentum, of a shining silvery 
appearance: segments linear or more generally lanceo- 
late, bluntish, mostly trifid, or 3-toothed, the two 
back ones often simple and entire. Petioles nearly cy- 
lindrical, clothed with a close silky down. Stipules 
lanceolate, taper-pointed, concave, membranaceous, 
joined to the base of the petiole, at last turning brown 
and remaining persistent. Flower-stalks branched, 
clothed with leaves 3 to 5-cleft, with entire lanceolate 
or linear segments. Peduncles 2-flowered. Involucre 
of 4 or 5 unequal sharply acuminate fringed bractes. 
Pedicles cylindrical, thickly clothed with short silky 
hairs. Sepals 5, ovate or widely lanceolate, concave, 
thickly clothed with soft hairs. Petals 5, broadly ob- 
cordate, of a blush colour, elegantly veined with stripes 
of a darker colour, which branch in all directions. 
Filaments 10, slightly united at the base, all bearing 
perfect anthers. Pollen pale yellow. Germen and 
aristce thickly clothed with silky down. Stigmas 5, 
reflexed. 
