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PELARGONIUM senecioides. 
Groundsel-like Stork?s-bill. 
P. senecioides, caule herbaceo paniculato-ramoso, foliis bi- 
pinnatifido-laciniatis pinnatifidisque glabris, pedunculis 
subtrifloris paniculatis, involucris calycibusque obtusis, 
petalis omnibus obovatis, tubo nectarifero calyce glan- 
duloso-piloso sesquilongiore. 
Pelargonium senecioides. Li Merit, geran. t. 11. DC. 
prodr. \.p.660. TVillden. sp.pl. 3. p.66 1. Pers. syn. 
Q.p, 230. Hort. Kew. v. Q.p. 420. Ed. 2. v. 4 .p. 169. 
Stem herbaceous, annual or biennial, paniculately 
branching; branches elongated, jointed, knotted at the 
joints, densely clothed with a short glandular pubescence, 
which when bruised emits a strong smell of turpentine. 
Leaves bipinnatifid on the lower part of the stem, tapering 
to the base; upper ones pinnatifid, or laciniate, smooth or 
slightly pubescent, segments oblong or obovate, bluntly 
rounded. Petioles slender, quite flat on the upper side, 
pubescent. Stipules small, acute, fringed. Peduncles pa- 
nicled, 2 or 3-flowered, cylindrical, slender, thickly clothed 
with a glandular pubescence. Involucre of 4 short, ovate, 
concave, bluntly rounded bractes, of a thin membranaceous 
transparent texture, with a strong green vein down the 
centre of each, that is clothed with a glandular pubescence. 
Pedicles short, or sometimes wanting. Calyx 5-cleft, seg¬ 
ments very unequal, oblong, bluntly rounded, membrana¬ 
ceous, strongly 1 to 5-nerved, the nerves glandularly pu¬ 
bescent. Nectariferous tube variable in length, some¬ 
times scarcely longer than the calyx, at other times more 
than half as long again, also densely glandularly pubescent. 
Petals 5 , all obovate, white, tinged with blush, and red 
veined, all very narrow at the base, the two upper ones 
