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DIMACRIA auriculata. 
Eared-leaved Dimaaria. 
D. auriculata , acaulis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis utrinque 
acutis pilosis margine ciliatis integerrimis basi saepe bi- 
auriculatis pinnatifidisve : segmentis lineari-lanceolatis 
acutis, umbella composita, pedunculis quandrangulari- 
bus, calycibus bracteisque incanis pilosissimis. 
Pelargonium auriculatum. Willd. sp. pi. 3. p. 643. DC. 
prodr. 1. p.651. 
Pelargonium ciliatum. Jacq. ic. rar. 3. t. 519. 
Stemless. Root tuberous. Leaves variable, clothed with 
long white hairs on both sides, and fringed round the mar¬ 
gins, ovate or lanceolate, acute, tapering at each end, some 
entire, others producing two segments or leaflets at the base, 
or sometimes pinnatifid ; segments or leaflets linearly lan¬ 
ceolate, acute. Petioles long and slender, very hairy, and 
clothed with a canescent pubescence. Stipules very long, li¬ 
near, acute, very hairy. Scapes branching, leafy at the 
base of the peduncles, clothed with long spreading white 
hairs. Peduncles quadrangular, also densely clothed with 
hairs. Umbels four to six-flow r ered. Involucre of several 
narrow taper-pointed bractes, densely clothed with long 
spreading white hairs. Calyx 5-cleft, densely clothed or 
bearded with innumerable spreading white hairs, which 
form a dense tuft: segments lanceolate, acute, erect. Nec¬ 
tariferous tube about the length of, or sometimes much 
longer than the calyx, also very hairy. Petals 5, reflexed 
about the middle, the two upper ones rather broadest, spa- 
tulate, white, with a dark purple patch near the base, which 
branches a little; lower ones quite white. Stamens 10, 
