MALVACEyE. Ill 



The plant above described was gathered in a wood in Osterley 

 Park, Middlesex. 



On the Carnarvon side of the Conway, by the roadside, not far 

 from Tal-y-bont, a village between Conway and Trefriew, a variety 

 of this species was gathered, which in foliage was intermediate 

 between M. moschata and M. sylvestris. Several of the speci- 

 mens had their upper leaves only lobed and toothed, not deeply 

 divided, as in the common forms; some had them cleft, and some 

 had all the forms, viz. lobed, cleft, and palmate leaves on the 

 same plant. 



About Clent, near Hagley, Worcestershire, this form was very 

 common; the stem-leaves assumed the usual form of the root- 

 leaves. In September, or even later, this plant flowers before 

 throwing up a long stem, and before stem-leaves of the usual form 

 are developed. This was the most common Mallow about Clent, 

 and it was abundant on the very hill-ridges, which are at least 

 three hundred yards high. 



M. sylvestris, Liu. Comnioti Mallow. — e.b. 671. l.b.s. 205. 

 A. 17. C. 70. Lat. 50-58°. Alt. 0-200 yds. Tern. 52-47°. 



Roots woody. Stem ascending or spreading, branched, hairy, 

 hispid, especially at the summit. Leaves cordate at the base, 

 with 5-7 short, broad, blunt lobes, toothed or crenulate; the 

 upper leaves have longer and sharper lobes, all petiolate, and 

 usually with a dark spot at the base. Flowers in axillary tufts. 

 Pedicels of the fruit erect. Calyx erect after flowering, but not 

 completely enveloping the fruit. Corolla purple, veined, much 

 longer than the calyx. Carpels usually glabrous, reticulate. 



Waysides and waste places. Per. ; June-October. 



M. rotundifolia, Lin. Round-leaved Mallow. — e.b. 1092. 

 L.B.S. 206. 



A. 15. C. 60. Lat. 50-58°. Alt. 0-100 yds. Tern. 52-47°. 



Root and stem as in M. sylvestris, only this species is more 

 prostrate and slenderer than that. All the leaves are round in 

 their outline, deeply cordate at the base, with 5-7 very short and 

 rounded, crenulate or toothed lobes. Flowers in axillary tufts. 

 Pedicels of the fruit drooping. Calyx not quite enveloping the 

 fruit. Corolla pale rose-colour, about twice as long as the calyx. 

 Carpels pubescent, not reticulate. 



By waysides, walls, and dry places. Biennial or perennial ; 

 June-October. 



