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feet high} fending out feveral irregular branches. Leaves 
r.oundifh, with the Tides erect, fo as to form a hollow or 
hood ; whence Linnaeus calls them cucullatum, or cowled ; 
they are heart-fhaped at the bafe, or kidney-fhaped accor¬ 
ding to Linnaeus ; and from the footftafk run many 
nerves ariling from a point, but diverging towards the 
fides. The flowers are produced in large panicles (or 
umbels) on the tops of the branches ; calyx deeply cut, 
and clofely covered with foft hairs; petals large, entire, 
purple. It flowers from June to September; and the 
feeds have fhort hairy beaks. The whole plant is pubef- 
cent, higher than mod of the other fpecies, ftiffer, and 
more upright. Introduced in 1690, by Mr. Bentick. 
36. Pelargonium angulofum, or marfh-mallo.w-leaved 
ftork’s-billi umbels many-flowered; leaves rounded, 
cowled, angular, toothed. This bears much refemblance 
to the preceding, and has been confounded with it; but 
the leaves are of a thicker fubftance, divided into many 
acute angles, having purple edges, which are acutely in¬ 
dented. The ftalks and leaves are very hairy. The 
branches are not fo irregular as thofe of the former, nor 
are the bunches of flowers near fo large. It was culti¬ 
vated in the'Chelfea garden in 1724; and flowers in July 
and Auguft. 
37. Pelargonium acerifolium, or maple-leaved ftork’s- 
bill : umbels five-flowered, or thereabouts ; leaves pal- 
mate-five-lobed, ferrate, wedge-fhaped, at bottom undi¬ 
vided. Cultivated in 1734, by Mr. Archibald Thomp- 
fon. It.flowers in April and May. 
38. Pelargonium cordatum, or heart-leaved ftork’s- 
bill : umbels many-flowered; leaves cordate, acute, 
toothed ; lower petals linear, acute. Stem fhrubby, 
branched : when young red, when very-young green and 
villofe, when old covered, with an afh-coloured bark. 
Flowers at the ends of the Hem and branches in nume¬ 
rous umbels; corolla papilionaceous, large, pale purple, 
the two upper petals wider, longer, marked with deeper- 
coloured lines, red from the claws to the middle; the 
three lower whitifh, linear; antheras ovate-oblong, yel¬ 
low.* Introduced in 1774, by Mr. Maflon; flowers from 
March to July. There are feveral varieties. 
39. Pelargonium echinatum, or prickly-ftalked ftork’s- 
bill: flem flefny ; ftipules fpinefcent; leaves cordate- 
roundifh, from three to five lobed ; flowers umbelled ; 
umbels feven or eight flowered. Stalk green ; furface 
fmooth, and fomewhat glofly, befet with fpines which 
bend back and terminate in brownifli weakifii points; 
t’hefe appear to have been primarily the ftipules, which 
become thus flefliy and rigid. The flowering ftem pro¬ 
ceeds from the fummit of the ftalk, and is a foot or more 
in height; flowers in an umbel of feven or eight toge¬ 
ther ; the three lowermoft petals are pure white, with a 
little gibboflty at the bafe of each ; the two uppermoft 
are marked with three irregular fpots, of a rich purple 
colour, inclining to carmine, the two lower fpots nar- 
roweft, and of the deeped colour; ftigma red, divided 
into five parts^ and a little longer than the fertile fila¬ 
ments. In its habiothis plant fomewhat refembles the 
preceding. It flowers from May to September, and in 
favourable feafons produces feeds here. It varies with 
petals of a rich purple colour, in which the fpots are 
limilar, but not fo confpicuous. 
40. Pelargonium tetragonum, or fquare-ftalked ftork’s- 
bill: peduncles two flowered ; branches four-cornered, 
flefliy; corollas four-petalled. Stems angular; angles 
four, fometimes three, fucculent, as is the whole plant; 
procumbent when they fiioot out into length, at firft 
hairy, afterwards very fmooth, much branched, and three 
feet high. Leaves alternate, almoft equal to the petioles, 
oi;bicu!ate, five-lobed; the younger villofe, tooth-cre- 
nate, violet-coloured underneath, aDd above having a 
dark red zone; the older crenate, flefliy, dark green, with 
a few villofe hail's, and frequently with a zone. Stipules 
ftiort femicircular, fpreading, ftirivelling. Peduncles 
axillary, ere if, rugged; with.four fubovate ftipules at 
the forks. Calyx tubular, long, fegments acute, fpread- 
ing ; the uppermoft wider. Corolla very handfome, pa¬ 
pilionaceous; the two upper petals an inch and a half in 
diameter, femi-tubular at the bafe, upright, reflex at the 
tip, purple on the outfide, white within, having two ob¬ 
long feathered fpots, of a deep purple colour; the two 
others lateral, fickle-(liaped, parallel, with narrow claws ; 
between thefe come out the ftamens and piftil, which are 
long, perpendicular to the upper petals, and thence from 
bowed upright; feven of the filaments very long, deep 
red, with dark-purple ovate antheras ; the other three 
fhorter and barren. Germ five-cornered, pubefcent : 
ftyle pyramidal, at firft green, then purple. Capfules. ob¬ 
long, villofe, fliarp at the bafe: awn an inch long, 
bearded, fpiral. Seeds fmooth, refembling a grain of 
wheat. 
“A vein of Angularity,” fays Mr. Curtis, ‘-'runs 
through the whole of this plant; its ftalks are unequally 
and obtnfely quadrangular, fometimes more evidently 
triangular; its leaves few, and remarkably fmall ; its 
flowers, on the contrary, are uncommonly large, and, 
what is more extraordinary, have only four petals; pre¬ 
vious to their expanfion the body of filaments is bent fo 
as to form a kind of bow, in which ftate we have repre- 
fented one of the blofloms in our figure. It flowers 
from June to September. When it flowers in perfeftion, 
which it is not apt to do in all places, the largenefs of its 
blofloms renders it one of the molt ornamental of the 
genus. There is a variety of it with beautifully co¬ 
loured-leaves of which we have availed ourfelves in its 
representation.” See Plate II. fig. 3. - 
41. Pelargonium peltatum, or peltated ftork’s-biil : 
umbels few-flowered; leaves five-lobed, quite entire, 
flefliy, peltated; branches angular. This has many 
weak flmibby ftalks, which require fupport, and extend 
to the length of two or three feet. Leaves on (lender 
footftalks, faftened into the dilk ; they are fmooth, of a 
lucid green, with a circular purple mark in the middle ; 
have an acid flavour, and are placed alternate on the 
branches. A leaf, having its footftalk inferted into the 
diflc or middle part of it, or near it, is called by Linnaeus 
peltatum, targeted ; hence the name of this fpecies : it 
may be obferved, however, that fome of the leaves have 
this chara&er more perfectly than others. The flowers 
are on pretty long axillary peduncles, each fuftaining 
four or five purple flowers, coming out in fucceflion du¬ 
ring moft of the fummermonths, and the feeds frequent¬ 
ly ripen here. It was cultivated in 1701, by the duchefs 
of Beaufort. See fig. 4. 
42. Pelargonium lateripes, or ivy-leaved ftork’s-bill : 
umbels many-flowered ; leaves cordate, five lobed, fome¬ 
what toothed, flefliy ; branches round. Cultivated in 
1787, by Meflrs. Grimwood and Barret at Kenfmgton. 
It flowers moft part of the fummer. 
43. Pelargonium cortufaefolium, or cortufa- leaved 
ftork’s-bill : umbels many-flowered; leaves cordate, gafli- 
lobed, waved, bluntly toothed ; ftipules awl-fhaped. Na¬ 
tive of the fouth-weft coaft of Africa. Introduced in 
1786 by Mr. Anthony Hove; it flowers in July. Jac- 
quin gives Geranium tabulare of Burman and Cavanilles, 
with Herm. Afr. p. 11. and Raii Suppl. 514. 36. as fyno- 
nyms of this. See N° 7. 
44. Pelargonium crafflcaule, or thick-ftalked ftork’s- 
bill: umbels many-flowered ; leaves kidney-form, ob- 
acuminate ; ftem flefliy, branched, even. Native of the 
fouth-weft coaft of Africa. Introduced in 1786, by Mr. 
Anthony Hove. It flowers in July. 
45. Pelargonium cotyledonis, or hollyhock-leaved 
ftork’s-bill: umbels compound; leaves cordate, peltate, 
wrinkled ; ftem flefliy. Native of the ifland of St. He¬ 
lena. Introduced in 1765, by Mr. John Bufh. It flowers 
fronrMay to July. 
V. Shrubby, with a woody ftem. 
46. Pelargonium ovale, cr oval-leaved fiork’s-bill: um- 
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