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MALVA VERTICILLATA, L. 
Annua, erecta, foliis longe petiolatis cordatis subprofunde 5- 
angulatis angulis lobisve obtusis crenato-serratis, floribus 
axillaribus fasciculatis brevi-petiolatis v. subsessilibus, pe- 
talis calycem (demum fructus omnino tegentem) paulo. 
superantibus, carpellis 10-12 in orbem totidem-lobatum 
dispositis orbiculari-reniformibus glabris dorso uninerviis 
marginibus rotundatis lateribus alte radiatim venosis-venis 
dorso (nisi ad margines) obsoletis. 
M. verticillata, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 970. Jacq. Hort. Tab. 40, 
Cav. Ic. 2. p. 78. t. 25. f. 3. De Cand. Prodr. 1. p. 433. 
(Tas. nostr. VII. Fig. 1. fruit ; f. 2. single carpel ; f. 3. seed : 
—magnified. 
Has. China, (Linneus.) 
Although the discovery of this Mallow in Wales has thus 
been, I trust, a means of enabling us in future better to 
distinguish the species, I fear we must not venture to con- 
sider it a native of Great Britain. It is not described even 
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