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PELARGONIUM filipendulifolium. 
Dropwort-leaved Stork* s- bill. 
P. filipenduli folium, subcaulescens, foliis inferioribus 
pinnatifido-laciniatis ; pinnis obovatis lobatis inciso- 
dentatis : superioribus bipinnatifidis glabriusculis ; 
segmentis acutis laciniatis dentatis, calycibus re- 
flexis, tubo nectarifero calyce quintuple longiori. 
Pelargonium filipendulifolium. Ifort. sub. lond. p. 150. 
n. 44. Colv. Catal. p. 21. col. 3. 
Pelargonium triste (3. filipendulifolium. Bot. mag. 1641. 
Suhcaulescent. Root tuberous^ v^ry large, brown 
and scaly, branching off into numerous other irregular 
tubers. Stem short, not much branched; flowering 
branches elongated, in our specimen between two and 
three feet high, of a glaucous green colour, thickly 
clothed with long spreading villous hairs, bearing 
several umbels of flowers. Leaves smoothish, but hairy 
on the nerves, of a light green colour, inclining to 
glaucous ; lower ones pinnatifid or deeply laciniate ; 
segments obovate, lobed, deeply and sharply cut and 
toothed; stem-leaves bipinnatifid; segments acute, 
deeply divided and toothed, upper leaves once pinna- 
tifid, segments lanceolate, very sharply cut and toothed. 
Petioles slightly flattened on the upper side and rounded 
on the lower, thickly clothed with long villous hairs, 
as are the peduncles. Stipules large, cordate, bluntish, 
mostly toothed. Peduncles very long, many-flowered. 
Involucre of numerous lanceolate bluntish bractes, 
joined at the base, slightly fringed. Calyx 5-cleft, seg- 
ments unequal, lanceolate, obtuse, reflexed. Nectdri" 
ferous tube flattened and furrowed on each side, clothed 
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