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malva moschata. var. /3. undulata. 

 Undulated Musk Mallow. 



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C/ass ara£ Order. 



MONADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Calyx duplex : exterior 3-phyllus. Caps, plurimee, mo- 

 nospermae. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Malva moschata; foliis radicalibus reniformibus incisis; 

 caulinis quinquepartitis pinnato-multifidis, calyee pi- 

 loso. Smith. Fl. Brit. 2. 742. Engl. Botany, 754. 



Malva moschata ; caule erecto foliis radicalibus reniformi- 

 bus; caulinis quinquepartitis pinnato-multifidis, calycis 

 exterioris folioiis linearibus. Willd. Sp. PI. 3. p. 790. 

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



Malva moschata. Lin. Sp. PL 971. Flor. Dan. 905. 

 Curtis FL Lond. Cavan. Diss. 2. p. 76. t. 18. /. 1. 



Malva sive Alcea montana. Column. Ecphr. 147. 



Alcea tenuifolia crispa. Bauh. Hist. 2. p. 1067. 



(|3.) foliis atro-viridibus : laciniis undulatis. 



Malva laciniata, j3. Lam. Encycl. 3. p. 750 ? 



Malva moschata varies so much in the form,, colour, and 

 degree of hariness of the leaves, that it is not easy to de- 

 scribe them. Though supposed by Lamarck to be only a 

 variety of Malva Alcea, these plants are undoubtedly distinct 

 species ; moschata is of humbler growth, the leaflets of the 

 outer calyx are linear-lanceolate, not ovate ; the capsules 

 are pubescent ; the hairs of the stem and calyx are erect, 

 simple, growing from a tubercle, frequently, but not in our 

 specimen, of a red colour ; in Alcea the hairs grow in fasci- 

 cles and spread into rays ; the musk scent is also wanting 



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