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ERODIUM incarnatum. 
, Flesh' coloured HerorC s-hill. 
E. incarnatum pedunculis plurifloris, foliis scabris cor- 
datis tripartitis ternatisve quinquelobis dentatis 
scabriSj caule fruticuloso, petalis superioribus basi 
punctatis. 
Erodium incarnatum. Willden. sp. pi. 3. p. 637. Botan, 
magaz. 261. VH&it. geran. t, 5. Pers. syn. 2. p. 
225. Hart. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 158. 
Geranium incarnatum. Cav. diss. 4. f. 223. t. 97. f. 3. 
Andrews s geran. c. ic. 
Stem sufFruticose, with few branches ; branches 
short, thickly clothed with leaves, smooth and glossy ; 
flowering branches elongated, bearing numerous um- 
bels of flowers. Leaves rough, of a dark glossy green, 
cordate, not hairy, some ternate, others 3-parted or 
5-lobed, deeply toothed with bluntish teeth that are 
terminated with a blunt callous mucro: lobes une- 
qually and deeply cut and toothed. Petioles long and 
slender, flattened on the upper side and convex on the 
lower, very rigid. iS'^ijow/e* sub ulately linear joined to 
the base of the petioles, smooth and shining. Peduncles 
slender, clothed with very short hairs, generally 4- 
flowered. Involucre of 6 subulate fringed bractes. 
Pedicles gradually thickened upwards, curved inwards, 
slightly hairy. Sepals 5, lanceolate, acute, thickly 
covered with short villous hairs; the upper one widest. 
Corolla of 5 equal oblong blunt flesh-coloured petals, 
the two upper ones have 6 little dots at the base, in a 
bright red circle, above that is a circle of white, then 
another circle of a lighter red. Filaments 10, united 
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