:'j6 MONADELFHIA POLYANDRIA. 



the dyfcntery, tenefmus, and gonorrhea, and is 

 ufed by way of cataplalm in inflammations : the 

 ancients fed upon a fpecies of mallow, tho' pro- 

 bably not this kind, as we learn from Horace: 



pafcunt olivse, 



Me Cichorea, le-uefq ; mal-va. Lib. I. Ode, xxx. 



mofchata 3. MAL\ A caule eredo, foliis radicalibus reniformi- 

 bus jncifis i cauhnis quinquepartitis pinnato-mul- 

 tiiid.s. Ljn. />-/?. nat. 461. Sp.pl. 971. {Column, 

 ecph. I. p. 148. /. 147. Moris, hiji. f. 5. /. 18./. 



4.) 



Jagged-leav'd Mallow, or Mufl<- mallow. Jnglis. 



in Hieadows and pafture?, bui not very common. 

 We obferved it about Duplin^ near Ferlb, &c. 

 S.YllL 



The ftalk is a cubit high, branched and hairy ; the 

 hairs errcft, and arifing each fmgle one from a 

 prominent doc or tubercle : the radical leaves are 

 obfcurely divided into five lobes, and ferrated on 

 the edges : thofe on the ftalk have their lobes 

 divided to the bafe, which lobes are pinnatlfid, 

 and thefe pinnul<:e again fliaiply ferrated : the 

 flowers are flefh-color'd, have a mufky fmell, 

 and grow in clufters at the tops of the branches, 

 one on a peduncle : the capiules are hairy, and 

 about fifteen in a circle round the receptacle. 



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