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PELARGONIUM carbasinum. 
Linen-flowered Stork’s-bill. 
P. carbasinum , subviscidum, foliis cordatis plants pal- 
mato-subseptemlobis subdenticulatis utrinque pilo¬ 
sis : lobis distinctis horizontaliter patentibus, stipulis 
lanceolatis ovatisve acutis ciliatis, pedunculis pluri- 
floris, petalis superioribus cuneatis, tubo nectarifero 
calyce reflexo duplo breviore. 
Stem frutescent, erect, clothed with a brown cracked 
bark, much branched: branches more or less spreading, 
thickly clothed with short woolly hairs, when young 
slightly viscous, as are the leaves, peduncles, and calyx. 
Leaves cordate, scarcely acute, flat, or the edges slightly 
undulate, generally palmately 7-lobed, and more or less 
toothed with very short blunt teeth, clothed with short 
hairs on both sides: lobes horizontally spreading, dis¬ 
tinct, flat, or a little hollowed on the upper side, scarcely 
acute, the lower ones divided nearly to the base, and 
2-lobed. Petioles rather slender, slightly flattened on 
the upper side, and rounded on the lower, clothed with 
short woolly hairs, as are the peduncles and calyx. Sti¬ 
pules variable, the lower ones lanceolate and taper- 
pointed ; the upper ones ovate and acute, all hairy and 
fringed. Peduncles axillary or opposite to a leaf, cylin¬ 
drical, a little thickened and transparent at the base. 
Lnvolucre of 6 to 8 bractes, generally connected into two 
sets at the base; bractes ovate or lanceolate, acute, vil- 
losely hairy and fringed. Pedicles longer than the brac¬ 
tes. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments all reflexed, bluntish, 
and mucronate; upper one broadest, ovate, the others. 
