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 Malva Alcea. Vervain Mallow. 



Class and Order. 



MONADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cat. duplex : exterior 3-phyllus. Caps, plurimae mo- 

 nospermy. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Malva Alcea; caule erecto, foliis inferioribus angulatis; 

 superioribus quinquepartitis scabriusculis, calycis ex- 

 terioris foliolis oblongis obtusis. Willd. Sp. PL 3. 

 p. 790. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 217. 



Malva Alcea; caule erecto, foliis multipartitis scabriusculis. 

 Lin. Sp. PL 971. Scop. Cam. 2. p. 43. Host. Syn. 

 PL Austr. p. 384. Poll. Pal. n. 660. Zorn. ic. 219. 



Malva Alcea ; caule erecto glabro, foliis cordatis ; inferio- 

 ribus subrotundo-peltatis crenatis; reliquis profunde 

 quinquepartitis. Cav. Diss. p. 75. t t 17. / 2. 



Malva caule erecto, foliis scabris, trilobatis : lobis latera- 

 libus bipartitis, medio tripartito et quinquepartito. 

 Hall. Hist. n. 1071. 



Alcea major vulgaris. Bauh. Pin. 316. Blackw. Herb, 

 t. 309. Jig. mala. 



Alcea vulgaris. Dod. pempt. p. 656. / 2? Lob. ic. 1. 

 655. f. 2 ? 



Alcea. Cam. Epit. 669. Fuchs. Hist. 79. t. 80. 



Descr. Stems erect, three feet high, rounded, smooth at 

 the lower part and hairy at the upper, the hairs collected in 

 little bundles, spreading. Stipules linear-lanceolate, ciliate. 

 Leaves petioled, 3 — 5-partite : segments incised, obtuse, 

 rugose-veined. Peduncles one-flowered, axillary and termi- 

 nal, aggregate and solitary, somewhat hispid with fascicled 



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