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equal,, entire or with a few glandular teeth, generally bordered 

 by black dots ; petals with few black dots. Stony heaths, 

 pastures, and bogs. Fl. July. 



H. Elodes: stems diffuse, 6-12 inches long, covered with 

 loose, woolly, whitish hairs ; leaves orbicular, stem-clasping, 

 woolly ; flowers pale yellow, few together in a leafless cyme, 

 at first terminal, but becoming lateral ; sepals small, ovate, 

 copiously fringed with glandular teeth ; petals with a small 

 fringed appendage at their base. Spongy and watery bogs. Fl. 

 July, August. 



(64) Malva, MALLOW. 

 * Stems decumbent or spreading at the base. 



M. rotundifolia : annual ; stems procumbent, J-l foot long, 

 tough, slightly downy; leaves long-stalked, orbicular, cordate 

 at the base, with 5-7 short and broad crenate lobes ; flowers 

 clustered in the axils, small, pale purplish ; carpels about fifteen, 

 downy, rounded on the back. Roadsides, and waste places. 

 Fl. June to September. 



** Stems erect or ascending. 



M. sylvestris : biennial ; stems 1-3 feet high ; leaves long- 

 stalked, orbicular, slightly cordate at the base, with 5-7 broad, 

 short, deep lobes ; flowers in axillary clusters, reddish purple ; 

 carpels about ten, flat on the back, with angular edges. 

 Waste places, roadsides, etc. Fl. June to September. 



M. moschata: stems erect, simple, or slightly branched, 

 1 ^ foot high ; radical leaves orbicular, with short, broad lobes, 

 those of the stem deeply divided into linear or wedge-shaped 

 segments, which are again pinnatifid or three-lobed; flowers 

 large, rose-coloured, rarely white, crowded at the summits of 

 the branches ; carpels rounded on the back, very hairy. 

 Hedge-banks and gravelly pastures. Fl. July, August. 



