170 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



LinnfEus appears to liave confounded tliis plant with the pre- 

 ceding; but the name "rotundifolia" has been so generally applied 

 to the latter that mistakes are not likely to arise. 



Small-floioered Malloio. 



German, Rimdblcittrige Kcisepajij^el. 



SPECIES v.— M ALVA VERTICELLATA. Linn. 

 Plate CCLXXXIV. 



Stem erect. Leaves all roundish-reniform, deeply cordate at 

 the base, with 5 deltoid rounded crenate-serrate lobes, the middle 

 one slightly longer than the others. Pruit pedicels erect, mostly 

 shorter than the calyx. Epicalyx of 3 lanceolate lobes, three-quar- 

 ters as long as the calyx. Calyx with 5 deltoid-acuminate hairy 

 ciliated lobes, erect and enlarged in fruit. Petals twice as long as 

 the calyx. Carpels glabrous, with the sides gradually rounded into 

 the back, which is also rounded and not reticulated ; the sides with 

 prominent elevated ridges, not margined or bordered. 



In cornfields at Llanelly, in Carmarthenshire, in 1843 and suc- 

 ceeding years ; but not indigenous, as its native country is China, 

 and it does not occur at all wild in Europe. 



[England]. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 



Stem solitary, slender, 8 to 18 inches high in the British speci- 

 mens which I have seen, with the leaves on rather long stalks, inter- 

 mediate in form between those of M. rotundifolia and sylvestris, 2 

 to 3 inches across. Elowers i inch across, in clusters few together, 

 some of them sessile, but usually one at least of each cluster dis- 

 tinctly stalked. Petals white, shading into lilac towards the apex. 

 Carpe'ls more strongly wrinkled on the sides than in any of the other 

 British species, but without the honeycombed back which gene- 

 rally accompanies this mode of sculpturing ; the radiating lines being 

 in fact continued Avithout break, and disappearing gradually in the 

 middle of the back. Whole plant dull green, slightly hairy, with 

 the upper part of the peduncles and the pedicels covered with stel- 

 late pubescence. 



Erect Mallow. 



