24G MONADELPHIA— POLYANDRIA. Malva. 



Perennial. May — August. 



Root tapering, branching, whitish. Stem much branched and 

 widely spreading, I5 to 3 feet high ; in a barren soil recumbent. 

 Leaves deep green, soft and downy, serrated, plaited ; the up- 

 permost with fewer, but deeper, more acute, lobes, than the 

 lower ones. Fl. numerous, of a shining purple, veiny, on sim- 

 ple, aggregate, hairy, axiUary stalks. Pollen whitish, large. 

 External ))art of the capsules reticulated. 



Mucilaginous and emollient like the Marsh-mallow, 



2. M. rotundifolia. Dwarf Mallow. 



Stems prostrate. Leaves roundish-heart-shaped, bhiiitly 

 five-lobed. Stalks when in fruit bent downwards. 



M. rotundifolia. Limi.Sp. FL 969. miUI. v. 8. 786. Fl. Br 7\ I . 

 Engl. Bot. v.\6.t.\ 092. Curt. Loml.fasc. 3. t. 43. [look. Scot. 

 208. DeCan(l.Prodr.v.\.4?.2. FLDun.t.72l. Cavan. Dhs. 

 79. t.'2G.f. 3. Bull.Fr.t.lGl. 



M. n. 1070. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 22. 



M. sylvestris minor. Rail Sijn. 2i) 1 . 



M. svlvestris pumila. GVr. Em. 930. /. Fuchs. Hist.jOS.f. Ic. 

 29'0. /; Dod. Pempt. G.i3./, 



Malva, Brunf. Herb. v. 2. 70. f. 



^. M. pusilla, Engl. Bot. v. 4. t. 24 1 . inth. G 1 2. 



M. parviflora. Huds.307; not of Linn. 



M. minor, (lore parvo caeruleo. Dill, in Raii Syn. 25 1 , 



In waste ground, and by way sides in towns or villages, frequent. 



/S. Near Hithe in Kent. Sherard, and Hudson. 



Annual. June — September. 



Root tapering. Whole plant smaller than the last, and quite pros- 

 trate, with numerous steins, scarcely branched. Leaves on long 

 stalks, with .5, often 7, shallow lobes. Fl. pale lilac-coloured, se- 

 veral together, on axillary hairy sialks. Pet. usually above twice 

 the length of the calyx, but in (5 they are only as long as that 

 part, pale, and very inconspicuous. Caps, reticulated at the 

 back, in both varieties, as in M. sylvestris. 

 M. microcarpa, DeCand. n.37, sent by M, Thouin from the Paris 

 garden, has ])rostrate stems, and appears to me but a slight va- 

 riety oi rotundifolia, with rather smaller^o(i'e/A' than usual. 



3. M. moschata. Mask Mallow. 



Radical leaves kidney-shaped, cut ; the rest in 5 deep, 



pinnatifid, ja^oed segments. Calyx hairy; its outer leaves 



linear-lanceolate. 

 M. moschata. Linn. Sp. PI. 971 • ff'illd. v. 3. 790. /•/. Br. 742, 



Engl. Bot. V. \ \.t. 7i)4. Curt. Lond.fasc. 4. /.50. Sims in Curt. 



Mag. V. 49. f. 2298. Hook. Scot. 209. DeCand. Prodr. v.l. 432. 



Fl. Dan. t. 905. Cavan. Diss. 76. t. 18./. I . 

 M.n. 1072. Hall. Hist. V. 2.23. 



