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PELARGONIUM cratsegifolium. 
Hawthorn-leaved Stork's-bill. 
P. cratcegifolium, ramis flexuosis glabriusculis, foliis reni- 
formibus trilobis planiusculis inaequaliter denticulatis 
ciliatis glabriusculis: lobis latis sublobatis, stipulis ova- 
tis breviter acuminatis ciliatis, pedunculis plurifloris, 
tubo nectarifero calyce subasquali. 
Stem frutescent, branching: branches erect or ascending, 
flexuose, with a smooth glossy bark, slightly viscous, when 
young thickly clothed with spreading white hairs. Leaves 
kidney-shaped, flat, or slightly undulate while young, of a 
light glossy green, much broader than long, an inch and 
half long and 2 inches and a half broad, slightly recurved at 
the point, deeply 3-lobed, the lobes very broad and in gene¬ 
ral slightly lobed, thinly clothed with hairs when young, but 
becoming smooth by age, toothed with numerous small 
teeth that are very unequal in size, the margins fringed with 
short hairs, strongly 3-nerved from the base, the nerves 
branching in all directions. Petioles rather slender, slightly 
flattened on the upper side and rounded on the lower, widen¬ 
ed at the base, thinly clothed with spreading unequal hairs. 
Stipules ovate, tapering to a short point, fringed. Umbels 
several-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, more or less bent, 
thinly clothed with hairs. Involucre of 6 or 7 short, broad¬ 
ly lanceolate, or ovate, acute, fringed bractes, generally 
more or less connected at the base. Pedicles long, hairy. 
Calyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, acute, villosely hai¬ 
ry : upper one broadest and keeled. Nectariferous tube 
about the length of the calyx, flattened and slightly keeled 
on each side, and gibbous at the base. Petals 5; the two 
upper ones obovate, very unequal-sided, of a dark salmon 
