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PELARGONIUM sanguineum. 
Crimson Stork's- bill. 
. sanguineum, umbellis multifloris, foliis decompositis 
glabris apice recurvis; segmentis cuneatis inciso- 
dentatis: infimis divaricatis, caule carnoso nodoso, 
involucro polyphyllo calycibusque ciliatis. 
Pelargonium sanguineum. Sprengel in Novi Proventus 
Hortorum Academicorum Halensis et Berolinemis. 
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\ Stem shrubby, succulent, not much branched, 
swelled at the joints. Branches knotted at the joints, 
glaucous, and clothed with horizontal unequal hairs. 
Leaves decompound, smooth, of a light green inclin- 
ing to glaucous, points recurved; leaflets pinnatifid, 
segments wedge-shaped, deeply cut and toothed; lower 
ones widely spreading with reflexed points. Petioles 
very long, nearly cylindrical, or a little flattened on 
the upper side, slightly hairy. Stipules very large, em- 
bracing the stem, cordate, ciliate, entire or sometimes 
cloven at the point. Peduncles very long, cylindrical, 
glaucous, and thickly covered with horizontal hairs. 
Umbels 8- to 13-flowered. Involucre of several lanceo- 
late, acute, fringed bractes. Cali/x 5-cleft, segments 
lanceolate, bluntish, reflexed, margin membranaceous 
and ciliate. Nectariferous tube very unequal, in some 
flowers very long, nearly sessile, in others very short, 
not much longer than the calyx, flattened on both sides 
and covered with short pellucid hairs. Petals 5, spa- 
thulate, the 2 uppermost widest, all of a dark scarlet 
colour, marked in the middle of each with a velvetty 
black. Filaments 10, united into a tube, 7 bearing 
anthers, 3 sterile ones shortest, erect, subulate. Ger- 
