MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 375 



Dwarf-mallow. Angles. 



In waJle places and by way-fides near towns and 

 villages. O . Vir. VIII. 



Befides what is imply'd in the fpecific difference, 

 the leaves are crenated : the peduncles are about 

 an inch long, bearing generally a fingle flower, 

 but fometimes two or three : the petals are com- 

 monly white, fhreaked with red veins : the ieg- 

 ments of the interior calyx are denticulated ; the 

 leaves of the exterior are narrow and linear : the 

 jlyles are thirteen or fourteen, hairy on one fide. 



(ylvejiris i, M. caule erefto herbaceo, foliis feptemlobatis acu- 

 tis, pedunculis petiolifque pilofis. Sp. -pi. <^(>()* 

 (Ger. em. 930./. i. Moris, hijt. f. v. t. ij. f' S. 

 Blackivell /. 22) 



Common Mallow. Anglis. 



In wafte places and by way- fides. $ . Vl-Vlll. 



l^he ftalk is a yard high, or more, and branched : 

 the leaves are ferrated : the flowers grow in cluf- 

 ters from the al<e of the leaves, one on a pedun- 

 cle : the petals are widely expanded, and deeply 

 emarginated, of a purple color, with deeper 

 veins : the calyces are hairy : the capfuUs from 

 ten to fifteen. 



The whole plant is mucilaginous and emollient •, a 

 decodion of it, or an infufion of the flowers is 

 recommended as a^pcdoral, and good for the 

 flone and gravel, and other complaints in the 

 urinary paflages j it is Ukewife given in clyfters in 



