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AlthtEa, Lin. — Anmial or perennial plants, with stems, leaves, 

 and flowers as the same organs in Malva. Calyciale 6-9 bracts 

 (leaflets), united below. Calyx 5-cleft. Fruit as in Malva. 



A. oBicinalis, Lin, Marsh Mallow. — e.b. 147. l.b.s. 208. 

 A. 8. C. 15. Lat. 50-56°. Alt. yds. Tem. 51-48°. 



Root perennial, thick, vertical. Stems erect, branched, soft 

 and hoary, leafy. Leaves mostly cordate at the base, ovate, an- 

 gular, lobed and toothed or crenated, vei'y soft [tomentose-hoary) . 

 Flowers pale rose-colour, in axillary fascicles. Bracts of the ca- 

 lycule linear, numerous. Petals much larger than the sepals. 

 Carpels tomentose. 



In salt marshes, common; rare in other marshy places. It 

 used to be cultivated in gardens as a vulnerary, and may have 

 thence got a footing near habitations. Per. ; July, August. 



A. hirsuta, Lin. Hairy Mallow. — e.b. 2674. l.b.s. 209. 



Alien. See ' Cybele,' vol. i. p. 241. 



Stems erect, ascending or spreading, invested with long spread- 

 ing hairs, leafy. Root-leaves cordate, roundish, crenated, on long 

 petioles ; upper leaves palmate, with 3-5 oblong toothed lobes ; 

 all hairy. Flowers axillary and solitary, on pedicels (peduncles) 

 which equal the leaves. Calyx dilated at the base, with linear- 

 lanceolate ciliate sepals. Petals scarcely as long as the sepals. 

 Carpels glabrous, reticulate. 



Wandsworth Steam-boat Pier; Cobham Park, Kent. An- 

 nual; July-September. 



Lavatera, Lin. — Calycule growing from the peduncle, trifid. 

 Stigmas setaceous. The other parts as in Malva. 



L. arborea, Lin. Tree Mallow. — e.b. 1841. l.b.s. 210. 

 A. 6. Lat. 50-56°. Alt. yds. Tern. 52-48°. 



Stems somewhat woody, 3-9 feet high, much branched, leafy. 

 Leaves large, 7 -lobed, plaited, very soft, more or less tomentose, 

 the lower rounded; the upper, as usual in this Order, more deeply 

 lobed, and the lobes are more pointed. Peduncles unequal, 

 shorter than the leaves, Calycule (lower calyx or bracts) larger 

 than the calyx, and increasing when the fruit is ripening ; divi- 

 sions of the calyx triangular acute. Petals twice as long as the 

 calyx-lobes. Carpels yellow when ripe, wrinkled; axis crowned 

 with a conical apex. 



Rocks by the seashore; rare. On ledges of the Elyange 

 Stack, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, teste 'Botanical Looker- 

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