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BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
MALVA VERTICILLATA, Linn., detected in a corn-field in 
Wales, by James MorLEx, Esa. 
(With a Figure, Tas. VII.) 
During the summer of 1845, James Motley Esq. dis- 
covered in a corn-field at Llanelly, Glamorganshire, a Malva, 
Which he and Mr. Borrer and myself for a long time were 
disposed to consider an undescribed species, though from its 
locality, not unlikely to have been imported with grain or 
seed of some kind from the continent. “It is indeed,” writes 
Ms discoverer to Mr. Borrer, “ quite a mystery how this 
plant could get into the field," where indeed very few 
Specimens have been found. “It varies in height from 
i few inches to (in my garden) between 3-4 feet. When in 
this tall state, its habit is peculiar, being very erect, and the 
stem, until autumn, simple: if luxuriant, the flowers are 
Very much crowded and almost sessile, 8-10 in number, but - 
ES when the plant is smaller, one, two or three, (usually two), 
_ and borne on longer stalks. The number of carpels varies 
. Considerably; but so far as I have seen, they all possess the — — 
_ Same peculiarities of structure, whether few or many” —— 
_ Mr. Borrer had the kindness to communicate to me —— 
Small wild specimen from the field at Llanelly, and one, — 
about twice the size, raised from wild seed, and of which — 
the upper three-fourths of the plant is here represented. 
a VE) "The most remarkable characteristic of the 
species is the absence of margin (or angle to the margin 
the carpels, so that there are deep grooves or chann 
as it were, between them, and they only seem t 
at the axis of the entire fruit. There is, 
