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detect the species, and was on the point of publishing it 
as new, when, on examining carefully the fruit of Malva 
verticillata in the Linnean Herbarium, I did not hesitate 
to refer Mr. Motley's plant to it. The Linnæan sample 
- seems to be a cultivated one, and China is the country given 
as the habitat. Native wild specimens I have not seen; 
but I possess the same species from the Botanic Garden 
of Glasgow ; and the * Malva microcarpa” of Montbret, from 
Egypt, does not appear different. The M. verticillata of 
Turezaninow,* from Dahuria, in my Herbarium, has no 
perfect fruit; Bernhardi has constituted of that a new 
M. pulchella. 
I am happy to have my view of the identity of this plant 
with the Linnean M. verticillata confirmed by so careful : 
an observer as Mr. Borrer, who writes thus,—“ I have | 
looked again at the Linnæan specimen of Mawa verticillata, E 
and agree with you that it seems the same species as the — 
Welsh intruder; though the cuneato-cordate base of the - 
larger leaves, their unproduced middle segment, and broader 
and more rounded crenatures, rather staggered me. The 
carpels look just like the unripe ones of ours. The stem is, 
as Jacquin figures, and Cavanilles describes it, *spica densa 
aphylla terminatus; which is not the case in the Welsh 
plants. Cavanilles, however, represents it as leafy. to the 
. summit; and it is observable, that both the Linnean Sp 
