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is perhaps the most elegant of the tribe, from its being so 
slender in all its parts, and is not very common, except on 
a dry gravelly or limestone soil. Leaves divided into five 
parts, which are so subdivided and narrow, that the leaf 
almost looks like a skeleton. The stem is very slender, and 
therefore recumbent. The flowers a light purple, small, 
and on very long foot-stalks, two together. I have described 
eight species of this genus; there are still five more found in 
England; but as they are rare I will not puzzle the young 
student with them. 
MoNADELPHIA. POLYANDRIA. 
THALAMIFLORE. MALVACER. 
MALVA. (Mattow.) 
Generic Character. Calyx double, the exterior part of 
three leaves, inner divided into five. Seed-vessels arranged in a 
circle, each having one seed. 
Matva sYLVEsTRIs. Common Mallow. This is the largest 
of the two common species. It has an erect, herbaceous 
stem, from two to three feet or more high, branched. Leaves 
with seven rather acute lobes. Flowers purplish rose-colour, 
with deeper veins, three or four together. Its seeds, growing 
in a little compact circle, are called by children cheeses, and 
in France ‘des petits fromageons.” 
