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Stems from 1 inches to 1 foot in length, branching only from the 



root. Flowers small, roundish. 

 3. M. moscliala (Musk Mallow}, stem erect, radical leaves reni- 



forni in 5 or 7 broad incised lobes, cauline ones 5-partite pin- 



nato-multind, segments linear, cal. hairy, leaflets of the ext. 



cal. linear. Lig/itf. p. 3/6. E. B. t. 754. 

 HAB. Meadows and pastures, not uncommon. Dumbarton castle, 



&c., Hopk. FL Aug. "U 

 Two to three feet high. Flowers large, beautiful, rose colour, 1 2 



together from the axils of the terminal leaves. The leaves yield a 



faint musky smell if drawn through the hand. 



5. LAVATERA. 



1. L. arlorea (Sea-side Tree Mallow), stem arborescent, leaves 

 with about 7 angles downy plaited, peduncles axillary clus- 

 tered single-flowered. Lightf. p. 374. E. . M841. 



HAB. Rocks upon the sea-coast, as Inch-Garvey and Mykric-Inch, 

 in the Firth of Forth, and in Basse island, Sibbald. Fl. July, Aug. . 



Three to five feet high. Flowers large, purple rose colour, shining, 

 darker at the base of the petals. 



XVII. DIADELPHIA. 



1. HEXANDRIA. 



1. FUMARIA. Cal. small, of 2 leaves. Pet. 4, irregular, one 

 of them gibbous at the base. Filaments 2, membranaceous 5 

 each bearing 3 anthers. 



2. OCTANDRIA. 



2. POLYGALA. Cal. of 5 leaves, 2 of them wing-shaped and 

 coloured. Caps, compressed, obcordate. 



3. DECANDRIA. 



* tam. all connected or monadelphous, the tube of ten cleft above, 



3. GENISTA. Cal. 2-lipped, upper one with 2, lower one with 

 3, teeth. Standard bent backwards from the rest of the 

 flower. (Genista and Spartium*, Sm.) 



4. ULEX. Cal. of 2 leaves, with a small scale at the base on 

 each side. Legume turgid, scarcely longer than the cal. 



6. ANTHYLLIS. Cal. inflated, 5 -toothed 5 inclosing the small, 

 roundish, 1 3-seeded legume. 



* I cannot see a single character attributed to Spartium (in S. scopariimi) 

 which is not equally found in Genista. I therefore follow Jussieu and De- 

 candolle, in uniting our only British species with Genista. 



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