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capsules numerously wrinkled, smooth ; seeds without dots. 

 Downy Crane's-bill. 



Hob. Cultivated and waste grounds, very common. April 

 Aug. 



6. G. pusillum, stalks 2-flowered ; flowers bluish -purple, the 

 petals notched, and scarcely extending beyond the calyx ; leaves 

 kidney-shaped, palmate, cut, downy ; capsules keeled, even, 

 clothed with erect hairs; seeds without dots; anthers only 5. 

 Small-flowered Crane's-bill. 



Hal. Gravelly fields and waste grounds. " Hedges near 

 Paxton," Thomp. June Sept. Q 



7. G. dissectum, stalks 2-flowered ; flowers small, purplish, the 

 petals cloven, rather shorter than the much awned calyx ; leaves 

 in 5 deep laciniated segments ; capsules hairy ; seeds reticulated. 

 Jagged-leaved Crane's-bill. 



Hob. Road-sides and pastures, particularly in new pas- 

 tures on a gravelly soil, common. May, June. Q 



8. G. sanguineum, stalks single-flowered ; flowers large, crim- 

 son ; leaves roundish, in 5 or 7 deeply separated, 3-cleft lobes ; 

 capsules even, bristly at the summit ; seeds minutely wrinkled. 

 Bloody Crane's-bill. 



Hob. On the Links of Holy Island, Winch. Sea-banks 

 at Hudshead ; and on the Links from Scrammerston 

 southwards, abundant, and highly ornamental. July 

 Sept. If 



III. POLYANDRIA. 

 211. MALVA. 



1. M. sylvestrls, stem upright, herbaceous, much branched; 

 leaves with 7 acute lobes; footstalks and flowerstalks hairy; 

 flowers large, purple, veiny. Common Mallow. 



Hob. Waste places and road-sides. June Aug. 11 



The leaves boiled are in common use amongst the poor as a 

 poultice, to which they ascribe many opposite virtues. 

 It is as good and cheaper than one of bread and milk. 



