MONADELPHIA— POLYANDRIA. Malva. L^47 



3. M. moschata. Musk Mallow. 



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

 pinnatifid, jagged segments. Calyx hairy ; its outer leaves 

 linear-lanceolate. 



M. moschata. Linn. Sp. PL 97 1 . mild. v. 3. 790. Ft. Br. 7-12. 



Engl. Bot.v. W. t. 754. Cart. Lond.fasc. 4. t. TjO. Sims in Curt. 



Mag. V. 49. t. 2298. Hook. Scot. 209. DeCand. Prodr. v. 1. 432. 



Fl. Dan. t. 90.3. Cavan. Diss. 7(j. t. 18./. 1. 

 M. n. 1072. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 23. 

 M. montana, sive Alcea rotundifolia laciniata. Column. Ecphr. 



148. t. 147. 

 Alcea tenuifolia crispa. Bauh. Hist.v.2.\0%7 .f. Dill, in Rati 



Sy7i.2D3. 

 A. vulgaris. Rail Syn. ed. 2. 139. ed 3. 252. All the synonyms, 



in both places, wrong. 

 A. folio rotundo laciniato. Bauh. Pin. 316. Moris, v. 2.527. sect.j. 



t.\s.j:4. 



In the grassy borders of fields, and by way sides, on a gravelly 

 soil. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root tough and woody. Herb bright green, more or less rough 

 with spreading, simple, not starry, hairs, unaccompanied by 

 any short, dense, woolly pubescence, and exhaling a musky 

 odour, especially in hot weather, or when drawn lightly through 

 the hand. Stems about 2 feet high, leafy, round, but little 

 branched. Radical leaves on long stalks, smaller, rounder, and 

 less deeply lobed than the upper ones, soon withering away j 

 stem-leaves divided to the very base into 5 pinnatifid lobes, all 

 whose segments are linear, acute, channelled, and frequently 

 undulated, usually in some degree hairy, seldom quite smooth. 

 Fl. on long, axillary, simple stalks, rose-coloured, large and 

 handsome. Cal. paler than the foliage, coarsely hairy or bristly ; 

 its 3 outer leaves linear-lanceolate. Pe/. wedge-shaped, slightly 

 cloven, jagged. Caps, clothed with dense silky hairs. 



The white-flowered variety, figured by Dr. Sims, is kept for cu- 

 riosity in gardens. It di'lVers in no other resi)cct from the, more 

 beautiful, wild plant. The musky scent undoubtedly proceeds 

 from the herbage, as described in Fl. Br. and Fugt. Bot., not 

 from the flowers. 



We scarcely ever find our great countryman, Kay, in an error, 

 but in this instance he mistook the plant of the Bauhins, whose 

 Alcea vulgaris Is Malva Alcea of LinniFUs, Fhrh. PI. Off. 118, 

 figured in Millers Iconcs, t.\7, and in Pctiv. //. Brii. t.39.f. 12. 

 Miller indeed, like Hudson, has erred in making both these 

 plants tiutives of England, and many authors have either taken 

 them for the same, or ccaifounded tiuir synonyms. M. Ahca may 

 be eleailv known bv the broader and more flat segments of it^ 



