MAL\'ACE.i;. Kjy 



notched. Styles much longer than the stamens. Torus witli Ions? 

 hairs at the base. Carpels dark olive, rounded and slightly keeled 

 on the hack, Avith transverse radiating elevated ridges from the 

 sides, quite glabrous. Fruiting calyx erect, with the epicalyx 

 reflexed. Plant green, with long distant hairs. 



Hisjnd Malloio. 



Freucli, G-uimauve Herisaee. German, Eauhhaariger Eihisch. 



SPECIES II.-ALTHEA OFFICINALIS. Lian. 

 Plate CCLXXVIII. 

 Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Male. Tab. CLXXIII. Fig. 4849. 



Perennial, with a fleshy rootstock. Leaves all slightly 5-lobed 

 and doubly serrate, with a velvet-like pile or felt of stellate hairs. 

 Peduncles branched or two or three together, shorter than the 

 leaves from which they spring. Sepals clothed with a felt like that 

 on the leaves. Petals more than twice as long as the sepals. 

 Carpels nearly smooth, with a convex marginal ring, hispid. 



In salt marshes, sides of ditches and meadows, by the sea and 

 tidal rivers. Local, but occurring in most of the maritime counties 

 in the South of England, and ranging as far North as Lincolnshire 

 and South Wales. In Scotland it has only occurred by the shores 

 of the Solway and in Arran, and even there it has most probably 

 been introduced. 

 England, [Scotland]. Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Rootstock very thick and fleshy, tapering gradually into the 

 root. Stems erect, 2 to 4 feet high, round, simple or slightly 

 branched. Lower leaves stalked, roundish, 1^ to 3 inches across ; 

 the upper ones becoming narrower and gradually passing into ovate ; 

 all plaited, slightly 5-lobed, tlie lobes having triangular teeth of 

 unequal size. Peduncles axillary, 1 to 3-flowered, frequently 2 or 

 3 from the same axil, very short. Plowers pale flesh-colour, \\, to 

 2 inches across, arranged in irregular racemes or very contracted 

 panicles towards the extremity of the stem. Epicalyx of 8 or 9 

 linear triangular leaves, shorter than the sepals. Sepals ovate, 

 abruptly acuminate. Petals wedgeshaped-obovate, truncate and 

 emarginate at the apex. Styles about equal to the stamens. 

 Carpels brownish-olive, smooth and flat on the sides, surrounded by 

 a convex hairy ring. Fruiting calyx connivent over the carpels. 

 Plant pale greyish ^reen, .thickly covered with dense velvety stellate 

 pubescence, with slightly longer hairs on the ribs of the leaves. 



Harsh Malloio. 



Fiench, Guiiiiauve Officinale. Gernian, Gcbrdachllchcr EibUch. 



