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MONADELPHIA. POLYANDRIA. Lavaters. 
Musk Mallow. Meadows, pastures, road sides, and ditch 
banks. [Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Derbyshire, and the 
_ North, frequent. .In Norfolk and Suffolk sparingly. Mr. Woopw. 
Very Common in the midland counties. } P. July, Aug. 
a LAVATE’RA. Cal. double, the outer 3-cleft : cap- 
: sules many, equal in number to the sum- 
mits ;. placed in. a circle, 1 seed in each. 
L,..Stem woody: leaves with 7 angles, cottony, plaited : 
fruit-stalks crowded, axillary, 1 flower 6n each. 
— Garin. 136. 2, Calyx and fruit-Besl. Eyst. estiv. vi. 6.1, 
on the authority of Gertuer, and Cavanill. diss. v. 139. 2, 
on that of Gmelin. 
_ Stem in the smaller plants like that of a cabbage, but taller; 
In the larger plants from 4 to 6 feet high, and as muchas 4 inches 
indiameter. Leaves with 7, 5, or 3 angles ; as soft as the finest 
velvet. Flowers mostly in pairs. Calyx, outer much larger 
than the inner ; the segments broad, blunt, sometimes notched. 
‘Bless. purplish red, with dark blotches at the base of the petals. 
The cylinder of united filaments woolly at the base. 
Tree Mallow, ot Velvet-leaf. Sea shores. Hurst Castle, over 
against the Isle of Wight. Portland Island, rocks of Caldey 
Island, and Basse Islands, near Edinburgh. Ray.—Inch Garvey 
and Mykrie-Inch, in the Firth of Forth. Stssaup. Cornwa 
and Devonsh. Huns. [Chissel in Portland Island. Mr. Warr 
At Teignmouth, ] : B. July— 
TAX’US. Male and female flowers on different 
plants: A/oss. none: calyx a 4 or a 7-leaved 
ud. 
Male. Anthers target-shaped ; 8-cleft. ° 
Fem. Siyle none: seed 1, surrounded at the base 
by a pulpy receptacle ; the upper half naked. 
T. Leaves solitary, strap-shaped, prickle-pointed, near bacca’ta. 
together: receptacle of the male flowers somewhat 
globular. ‘ 
E, bot, 746~Hunt. Evel. p.378; i. p. 275. ed. U1—Blackaw. 
572-Kniph. 1~Cam. epit. 840-Tourn. 302. 1-F. B. i. b. 
241. 2-Dod. 859. 1-Lob. obs. 637. 1, and ic. ti, 232= 
Ger. em. 1370=Ger, 1187. 2=Park.s 1412-Gars, 580 
Matth. 1099, 2 
