149 
/ 
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roundliii 
3 
d into 
d 
r 
eao-es 
notched at the 
the two ftipulcTS are p 
live or 
1 
fe\' 
lob 
ana ftand ur 
equally ferrated or 
long round liair^ 
7 
bafe of each footftalk 
the fl 
Iks 
owers 
are 
lart^e, 
r* r\ • 
f: 
g 
of i 
Live 
P 
h 
are 
{h ap e d 
3 
finuated 
a 
liu 
pe 
) 
lid of a purpl 
iiverfely h 
veins of. a deeper 
proceed from the botton 
outer is compofed of thr 
fep-ments : the ftamina a 
d ftand 
the 
up 
fl 
ped 
painted with 
which 
eaf-ftalks : the calyx is double, the 
d the inner of live oval pointed hairy 
numerous 
ted 
bafe 
m a 
) 
bending dov^^nv/ard 
C) 
furnillied 
drical fhape, above fej 
kidney-fliaped antheraj : the germ en is roundifli : the ftyle cyl 
ill or t 
and fiirniilied with many 
filiform ftigmata 
numerous, of a kldney-lhap 
d 
d with 
V 
the feeds are 
a coat, or arillus 
> 
hich opens 
diy. It is common under hedges and in wafte 
V7 
grounds, and flowers from June till September. 
This plant ^ has a ilrong afFuiity to the Althaea both in a botanical 
find in a medicinal refped : but the roots of the malva are ufelefs. 
hile thofe of althaea are of 
f 
A 
1^ 
efficacy than any other part of 
y 
find that only 
eaves 
d the fl 
of the former are direded by the colleee 
6 
for pi 
pof 
Formerly when horticulture was little underftood 
pu 
d I 
fe th 
ch 
^ 
of efcul 
ve 
getables extremely limited, the 
malva w^as admitted amon2;ft the more common articles of diet :" and 
that the Chinefe ftill eat the leaves of m 
fallad, or boiled as fp 
Refpeding the medici 
/ 
X 
qu 
s 
of this plant, little remains to 
be faid after the account we have given of Althaea, as the leaves 
a U 
y 
Malva quafi molva auod alvum molliat, ut Inquit Feftus, fecundum tritiim ilium 
Scholse Salem, verficulum, dixerunt malvani veteres 
G 
l/^xXcc^yi 
am i^a-Kocssm, ob eandem rationem,^ UtruoK^ue etymon improbat C. Hoffman nee taaieu 
J 
Tournf. 
b Me pafcunt oliv^ 
Me cichorealevefque malvse. 
Exoneraturas ventrem mihi villica malvas 
Auulit, & varias, quas habet hortus, opes. 
B. 
01 
3^ 
^. 
X 
Tl 
is plant is alio mentioned by Cicero.- 
Melanges inierejj 
Tom. 4. p. 28 
pl/1 
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