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PELARGONIUM ursinum. 
Shaggy-calyxed Stork's-bill. 
P. ursinum , caule frutescente ramoso, ramis villosis, fo¬ 
lds cordatis acutiusculis undulatis argute cartilagi- 
neo-dentatis undique molliter tomentosis margine 
ciliatis, stipulis ovatis aeutis subdentatis, pedunculis 
3-4-floris, calycibus villosissimis, tubo nectarifero 
calyce duplo breviore. 
Stem frutescent, much branched: branches some¬ 
what spreading, thickly clothed with long woolly hairs 
and short down underneath. Leaves cordate, scarcely 
acute, somewhat rounded, a little hollow at the base, 
very slightly undulate, unequally toothed with rigid 
horny teeth ; very soft to the touch, being densely clo¬ 
thed with short woolly hairs on both sides, fringed with 
woolly hairs. Petioles slightly flattened on the upper 
side, and slightly furrowed, rounded below, thickly 
clothed with villous hairs. Stipules ovate, sharp-pointed, 
villous and fringed. Umbels 3 or 4-flowered. Peduncles 
cylindrical, villous. Involucre of 6 or 7 ovate, acute, 
villous bractes, that are mucronate at their points. 
Pedicles villosely hairy, longer than the bractes. Calyx 
5-cleft, densely clothed with long shaggy hairs; the 
segments broadly lanceolate, acute, concave on the 
inner side, erect or slightly spreading. Nectariferous 
tube about half the length of the calyx, villous. Petals 5; 
the two upper ones broadly obovate, unequal-sided to¬ 
wards the base, of a pale rosy pink, with a small vel- 
vetty spot in the centre, below which are numerous 
branching purple lines: lower ones narrower, obovate, 
rounded at the ends, of a paler colour, lined with nu- 
