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densely velvety-pubescent all over. Leaves ovate, pointed or blunt at 

 the apex, toothed and usually somewhat three-lobed, the lower leaves 

 usually cordate, veins conspicuously raised on the lower surfaces. Flowers 

 pink or nearly white, about i^ inches broad in terminal and axillary leafy 

 clusters. Calyx segments five, ovate-lanceolate, subtended by six to nine 

 linear bractlets; petals five; stamens numerous, forming a central column 

 around the pistil and united with the bases of the petals; styles united 

 below. Carpels fifteen to twenty, each one-seeded, arranged in a circle 

 around the axis of the fruit. 



Flowering in June and July. The photograph for the illustration of 

 this species was taken near Port Washington, Long Island. 



Musk Mallow; Musk Plant 



Malva moschata Linnaeus 



Plate 128 



Stems erect, i to 2§ feet high, more or less branching and hairy, from 

 a perennial root. Leaves orbicular in outline, 3 to 4 inches broad with 

 several broad, rounded, toothed lobes; stem leaves deeply cut into narrow 

 segments. Flowers I5 to 2 inches broad, pink or white, slightly musk- 

 scented, clustered in leafy racemes at the summits of the stems and branches; 

 petals five, notched at the apex, several times longer than the pointed, 

 triangular-ovate calyx lobes; stamens numerous, forming a column in the 

 center of the flower; carpels of the frviit fifteen to twenty in number, densely 

 hairy, rounded at the back. 



Roadsides, fields and waste places throughout the eastern states. 

 Native of Europe and thoroughly naturalized in many places. Flowering 

 from Jvily to September. 



Other Mallows, native of the Old World and adventive or natural- 

 ized in the eastern states, are the High Mallow (Malva sylvestris 

 Linnaeus), the Low, Dwarf or Running Mallow, also known as Cheeses 

 (Malva rotundifolia Linnaeus), the Whorled Mallow or Curled 

 Mallow (Malva verticillata Linnaeus) and the Vervain Mallow 



