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PELARGONIXJM tanacetifolium. 
Tansy-leaved Stork's-bill. 
P. tanacetifolium , eaule erecto ramoso; ramis pulveru- 
lento-pilosis, foliis pinnatifido-lobatis obtuse dentatis 
utrinque pulvemlento-pilosis; laciniis obtusis inciso-Io- 
batis patentibus, stipulis cordato-ovatis acutis, umbellis 
multifloris, petalis superioribuscuneatis inferioribus ligu- 
latis, tubo nectarifero calyce subsequali. 
Pelargonium tanacetifolium. Swt. hart. hrit. add. p. 471. 
n. 434. 
Stem shrubby, erect, branched; branches a little swol¬ 
len at the joints, thickly clothed with very short spread¬ 
ing white hairs, appearing like a powdery pubescence. 
Leaves pinnatifid, or very deeply lobed, the number of seg¬ 
ments varying according to the size of the leaves, clothed 
on both sides with a powdery pubescence, and short hairs; 
segments spreading, blunt, more or less jagged or divided, 
and toothed with bluntly rounded teeth. Petioles flattened 
on the upper side, and convex on the lower; widened at the 
base, thickly clothed with small spreading white hairs, as are 
the peduncles and calyx. Stipules broad, but short, cor- 
dately ovate, acute, entire, the margins fringed with short 
hairs. Peduncles cylindrical. Umbels 5 to 7-flowered. In¬ 
volucre of 6 ovate, acute, keeled bractes. Pedicles longer 
than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments spreading, lance¬ 
olate, scarcely acute, the upper one largest, and the others 
unequal in size. Nectariferous tube about the length of the 
calyx, much flattened on both sides. Petals 5, the two up¬ 
per ones cuneate, very unequal sided, and much narrowed 
towards the base, of a lively red, lightest at the margins, and 
marked in the centre with an obscure spot, below which 
