PELARGONIUM urbanum. 
Homebred Stork's-bill. 
P. urbanum, foliis inferioribus magnis rotundo-renifor- 
mibus inmqualiter acute dentatis utrinque pilosis: 
superioribus cordatis cuneatisve acutis, stipulis ova- 
tis cuspidatis ciliatis, umbellis multifloris, pedicellis 
bracteis duplo longioribus, tubo nectarifero calyce 
duplo breviore, petalis crenulatis, stylo glaberrimo. 
Stem strong, frutescent, erect, not much branched : 
branches clothed with long spreading white hairs and 
some shorter ones intermixed. Leaves variable, of a 
Smooth appearance, though clothed with longish hairs 
on both sides, nearly flat, or but very slightly undu¬ 
late ; deeply toothed with sharp rigid teeth, that are 
very unequal in length, the points of the longest some¬ 
what reflexed: lower leaves 6 inches and a half broad 
and three and a half long, roundly kidney-shaped, 
somewhat cordate at the base, strongly nerved under¬ 
neath, the nerves branched but not numerous: stem- 
leaves cordate, becoming cuneate on the flowering 
branches; acute, deeply and sharply toothed. Stipules 
ovate, ending in a sharp point, hairy and fringed. 
Umbels many-flowered. Peduncles long, and rather 
slender, cylindrical, thickly clothed with long, spread¬ 
ing, unequal hairs. Involucrum of numerous ovate, 
concave, sharp-pointed, keeled bractes. Pedicles about 
twice the length of the bractes, very hairy, the upper 
part tinged with red. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments long, 
lanceolate, taper-pointed, of a brown colour, villosely 
hairy; upper segment rather broadest, straight; the 
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