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MONADELPHIA rOLYANDBU. 

 347. ALTHiEA. Marsh-mallow. 



Linn. Gen. 353. Jiiss.272. Fl.Br.739. DeCand. Prodr. v. \. 

 436. Lam.t.bSX. Gcsrtn.t. 136. 



Nat. Ord. CoUimniferce. Linn. 37. Malvacece, Juss. 74. 

 Two following genera the same. 



Cal. double, permanent ; outer smallest, of 1 leaf, in about 

 9 narrow deep segments ; inriei^ of 1 leaf; divided half 

 way down into 5 broader segments. Pet. 5, inversely 

 heart-shaped, abrupt, rather oblique, flat, attached by 

 their broad claws to the bottom of the tube of the sta- 

 mens. Filam. numerous, capillary, united below into a 

 tube ; separate in the upper part, both at the summit 

 and sides. Anth, somewhat kidney-shaped. Germ, or- 

 bicular, depressed. Style cylindrical, as long as the tube 

 of the filaments. Stigmas about 20, bristle-shaped, nearly 

 the length of the style. Capsules as many as the stigmas, 

 compressed, ranged in a circle ronnd the columnar r^- 

 ceptacle^ each of 2 valves and 1 cell, finally deciduous. 

 Seeds solitary, kidney-shaped, compressed. 



Upright her^bs, either finely downy, or hairy, with lobed, 

 usually palmate, toothed, stalked, alternate leaves. Sti- 

 pulas in pairs. Fl. stalked, aggregate, axillary and ter- 

 minal, reddish. 



Alcea, the Hollyhock, is united to this genus, perhaps just- 

 ly, by Schreber, Jussieu, DeCandolle and others, as dif- 

 fering chiefly in the fewer segments of its exterior calyx. 



1. A. officinalis. Common Marsh-mallow. 



Leaves simple, very soft and downy, slightly five-lobed. 



A. officinalis. Unn. Sp. Fl. 966. M^illd. v. 3. 770. Fl. Br. 739. 



Engl.Bot.v.3.t.\47. JVoodv.t. 53. Hook. Scot. 20S. DeCand. 



Prodr. V. 1 . 436. Fl. Dan. t. 530. Cavan. Diss. 93. t. 30./. 2. 



Bull. Fr. t. 373. 

 A.n. 1074. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 23. 

 A. vulgaris. Raii Syn. 252. 

 A. Ibiscus. Ger. Em. 933. f. 

 Althaea. Fuchs. Hist. \5.f. Ic. 7.f. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 276./. 



Camer. Epit. 667. f. Dalcch. Hist. 590. f. 

 /3. A. vulgari similis^ folio retiiso brevi. Raii St/u. 252. 



