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PELARGONIUM oenanthifolium. 
Dropwort-leaved Stork' s-bill. 
P. oenanthifolium , villoso-pilosum, caule suffruticoso car- 
noso, foliis inferioribus pinnatis divaricato-patentibus : 
foliolis pinnatifidis bipinnatifidisve; superioribus pin¬ 
natifidis : segmentis oblongo-linearibus obtusis apice 
barbatis, umbellis multifloris, tubo nectarifero calyce 
triplo breviore. 
Roots large and fleshy. Stem short, suffrutescent, suc¬ 
culent, when young thickly clothed with long woolly white 
hairs, those wear off as it becomes older, it is then clothed 
with a brown rugged bark. Flower-stems paniculately 
branching, swollen at the joints, densely clothed with long 
entangled villous hairs, particularly at the joints. Leaves 
more or less divided, hairy: lower ones pinnate, divari¬ 
cately spreading; the leaflets petiolate, pinnatifid or bi- 
pinnatifid; the segments oblong or oblongly linear, obtuse, 
mostly toothed, but some few entire, wdth a bunch of long- 
ish hairs or setae at the points : upper leaves only pinnati¬ 
fid, more hairy, and the segments rather more acute. Pe¬ 
tioles slightly flattened on the upper side and rounded 
below, swollen at the base, villosely hairy. Stipules ovate, 
acute, villous. Peduncles long, cylindrical, villosely hairy. 
Umbels many-flowered. Involucre of numerous lanceo¬ 
late, acute, villous bractes. Pedicles about the length of, 
or a little longer than the bractes. Calyoc 5-cleft, clothed 
with long spreading hairs: segments bluntish, the upper 
one ovate, obtuse, erect; the others lanceolate or linear, 
reflexed. Petals 5, of a dark crimson, edged with bright 
scarlet, the two uppermost broadest, obovate, the three 
lower ones narrower and lignlate. Filaments 10, connected 
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