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GERANIUM ibericum. 
Iberian Crane's-bill. 
G. ibericum, pedunculis bifloris, petalis trilobo-emar- 
ginatiSj foliis inferioribus septemlobis inciso-denta- 
tis; superioribus quinquelobis, caule petiolisque 
villosis. 
Geranium ibericum. fVillden. sp. pi. 3. p. 702. Pers. 
syn. 2. p. 235. Hart. Kew. ed. 2. vol. 4. p. 186. 
Lamarck diet. 2. p. 658. Bieberst. Fl. Taur. 2. p. 
135. Cav. diss. 4. p. 209. t. 124. f. 1. Botan. 
magaz. 1386. 
Perennial, herbaceous. Stem short and thick, of a 
brown colour, clothed with the persistent stipules and 
base of the footstalks. Flowering branches forked and 
elongated, thickly covered with soft villous hairs, as are 
the petioles, peduncles, and calyx. Lower leaves 7- or 
9-lobed, unequally cut, and toothed with blunt teeth, 
rugose, and hairy on both sides; upper leaves on the 
flower-stems 5-lobed, gradually lessening upwards. 
Petioles on the lower leaves very long, slightly flattened 
on the upper side and rounded on the lower; on the 
upper leaves very short and more flattened. Stipules 
cordately lanceolate, membranaceous, keeled, and cili- 
ate; on the lower part of the stem hardened and 
remaining persistent. Peduncles 2-flowered, or some- 
times only 1 -flowered, when two generally spring from 
the same joint. Flowers very large. Sepals 5, ovately 
lanceolate, 5-nerved, and terminated with a weak 
mucro. Petals 5, emarginate, 3-lobed or obcordate, 
of a dark blue colour, reddish at the base. Stamens 
10, united at the base. Style pubescent. Stigmas 5,' 
