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on short petioles: the stipules lanceolate: the flowers axillary, soli- 

 tary, peduncled; peduncles longer than the leaf: the calyxes sub- 

 tomentose: the segments of the outer heart-shaped, with a very 

 sharp point; of the inner oblong acute: the corolla large, spreading, 

 pale violet or purplish, shaped like those of the Marsh-mallow, but 

 larger: petals emarginate: the capsules about twenty (fourteen) in a 

 wing of a papery substance, somewhat sugged, about a columnar 

 receptacle, which has many wings from the permanent sides of the 

 capsules, like the cogs of a mill-wheel, ending in a conical awl- 

 shaped point : the seeds flatted a little, smooth, subcinereous or 

 brown. It is a native of Sweden, flowering from July to September. 

 The fourth species rises with a strong thick stalk the height of 

 eight or ten feet (in gardens), dividing into many branches at the 

 top: in its wild state, when largest, from four to six feet high, and as 

 much as four inches in diameter: the leaves are alternate, numerous, 

 cordate, roundish-seven-angled (some five, and others three-angled), 

 the angles blunt, soft as velvet, shorter than the petioles: the stipules 

 short, smooth, acuminate at the tip, broad at the base: the flowers 

 mostly in pairs, sometimes three together, on upright peduncles an 

 inch and a half in length : the outer calyx ovate at the base, divided 

 half way into three broad blunt segments ; inner only half the size, 

 divided half way into five sharp segments: the corolla purplish red, 

 jith dark blotches at the base, spreading bell-shaped (like that of 

 the common Mallow), an inch or more in diameter: the petals 

 broader at top, narrow at the base, so that the calyx appears between 

 the claws: the cylinder of filaments purple, woolly at the base: the 

 germ very smooth: the style usually eight cleft at top : the stigmas 

 revolute, reddish: the ring or whorl of fruits is seven or eight cap- 

 suled: the common receptacle awl-shaped, with a conoid globule at 

 top, and small crescent shaped lamellae at the base and the inter- 

 stices of the capsules : the capsules . are reniformed-rounded, sharply 

 three-cornered, membranaceous, wrinkled, closed on all sides, pale 

 bay-coloured, not opening : the seeds kidney-shaped, and ash- 

 coloured. It is a native of Italy, &c. flowering from June or July to 

 September or October. 



