nicle, by Mrs. Willmore, of the American Nursery, 
near Birmingham, growing amongst a bed of 
Hollyhocks, where it had stood the winter, and was 
supposed to be an accidental mule, between those 
plants and some unknown Pelargonium — an idea 
that may be supposed to have arisen partly from 
the peculiar form of the flowers, and partly from 
an apparent resemblance between the calyx of the 
plant and the involucre of the Hollyhock. 
It is, in reality, a semi-double Pelargonium, with 
the irregularity characteristic of that genus ex- 
changed for something very like the regularity of a 
wild Geranium. Each flower consists of from seven 
to nine rather convex petals, uneven at the edge, 
and spreading nearly equally round the common 
centre. There are from fifteen to seventeen 
stamens, many with perfect anthers. The stigmas, 
apparently also perfect, vary in number from nine 
to twelve. The calyx, which is very remarkable, 
consists of about eight hairy, broad-ribbed sepals, 
of which three stand on the outside of the others, 
are lobed at the end, and are very like the bracts of 
some malvaceous plant. The lobing observable in 
the sepals is much more remarkable in the stipules 
and bracts. 
We leara, from inquiry, that this singular plant 
is quite as woody as the Pelargoniums, and when 
taken up, had a tap root, very different from any of 
these plants. Should it produce seed, a curious 
offspring may be the result ; in the first season of its 
existence, however, a fair chance to do so has not 
been permitted it, from the desire to make cuttings 
of all available parts of so novel a production. 
