Genus 2. 



MALLOW FAMILY. 



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2. Malva rotundifolia L. Low, Dwarf or Running Mallow. Cheeses. Fig. 2849 



M. rotundifolia L. Sp. PI. 688. 1753. 

 Annual or biennial, procumbent 

 and spreading from a deep root, 

 branched at the base, stems 4-12' 

 long. Leaves orbicular-reniform. 

 1-3' wide, cordate, with 5-9 broad 

 shallow dentate-crenate lobes ; pe- 

 tioles slender, 3'-6' long ; flowers 

 clustered in the axils, pale blue, 

 4"-/" broad; pedicels 6"-i5" 

 long ; petals about twice the length 

 of the ovate acute calyx-lobes ; 

 carpels about IS, rounded on the 

 back, pubescent. 



In waste places, common nearly 

 throughout our territory, and widely 

 distributed as a weed in other tem- 

 perate regions. Naturalized from 

 Europe. Native also of western 

 Asia. English names, dutch-cheese, 

 doll or fairy cheeses, pellas. Blue, 

 common or country mallow. Malice. 

 May-Xov. 



Malva parviflora L., another Eu- 

 ropean weed, with smaller flowers, 

 the similar carpels reticulated, widely 

 distributed in the Southern and Western States, has been found in Missouri, and in ballast about 

 cities on the Atlantic Coast. 



3. Malva verticillata L. Whorled IMallow. Curled 

 Mallow. Fig. 2850. 



Malva verticillata L. Sp. PI. 689. 1753. 

 Malva crispa L. Sp. Ph Ed. 2, 970. 1763. 

 Malva verticillata crispa L. Sp. Ph 689. 1753. 



Annual, erect, glabrous or nearly so, 4-6 high. Leaves 

 nearly orbicular with 5-1 1 shallow, angular dentate lobes, 

 their margins often wrinkled and crisped ; petioles elon- 

 gated; flowers white or whitish, sessile, clustered in the 

 axils, about the size of those of M. rotundifolia; petals 

 about twice the length of the calyx-lobes ; carpels rugose- 

 reticulated. 



In waste places. Nova Scotia to Quebec, South Dakota and 

 Pennsylvania. Adventive from Europe. Summer. 



4. Malva moschata L. Musk Mallow. Musk- 

 plant. Musk. Fig. 2851. 



Malva moschata L. Sp. PI. 690. 1753. 



Perennial, erect, l-2 high, branching, pubescent 

 with long hairs, or glabrate. Basal leaves orbicular, 

 3'-4' wide, with 5-9 short broad rounded dentate lobes; 

 stem-leaves deeplj- divided into linear or cuneate, pin- 

 natifid or cleft segments; flowers il'-2' broad, pink or 

 white, racemosely clustered at the summits of the stem 

 and branches ; petals obcordate or emarginate, 5-8 times 

 as long as the triangular-ovate acute calyx-lobes ; car- 

 pels 15-20, densely hairy, rounded on the back. 



In waste places and along roadsides. Nova Scotia to On- 

 tario, British Columbia, New Jersey, Virginia, Wisconsin 

 and Oregon. Naturalized from Europe. Plant with a faint 

 odor of musk. Summer. 



