CL. XVI.] MONADELPHIA POLYANDKIA. 283 



notched, a little longer than the calyx, which is prominently five- 

 angled, with heart-shaped, awned divisions ; capsules smooth and 

 even ; seeds reticulated. Stems procumbent, slender, with mi- 

 nute deflected hairs : two outer leaves of the calyx five-nerved, 

 each with two angles, the third four- nerved forming an angle by 

 one of its sides, the rest three-nerved : petals oblong, purplish 

 rose-coloured. Annual : flowers in June and July : grows in 

 gravelly soil : not common. Eng. Bot. vol. iv. pi. 259. Eng. FL vol. 

 iii.p. 241. 1012. 



** Peduncles one-floicered. 



12. G. sanguineum. Bloody Crane's-bill. Leaves roundish, with 

 seven deeply separated, three-cleft lobes ; calyx-leaves hairy, 

 awned ; petals inversely heart-shaped, twice the length of the ca- 

 lyx ; capsules even, sparsely hairy; seeds granulated. Root 



large, knotty. Steins numerous, from one to two feet high, pale- 

 green, covered with spreading hairs: calyx-leaves three-ribbed: 

 petals bright-red, with five transparent veins, their claws very 

 short, with two copious tufts of white hairs. Perennial : flowers 

 in June, July, and August : grows in hilly situations, and on the 

 grassy summits of maritime cliffs : not common. Eng. Bot. vol. iv. 

 pi. 272. Eng. FL vol. iii. p. 232. 1013. 



POLYANDRIA. 

 3. ALTHJE'A. MARSH-MALLOW. 



Calyx inferior, double, permanent ; the outer smaller, of one 

 leaf, deeply divided into nine segments ; the inner of one leaf, 

 divided into five segments. Petals five, inversely heart-shaped, 

 flat, with broad claws attached to the bottom of the tube formed 

 by the stamens. Filaments numerous, hair-like, united below 

 into a tube ; anthers nearly kidney-shaped. Germen round, 

 depressed. Style cylindrical, as long as the tube of the fila- 

 ments ; stigmas about twenty, bristle- shaped, nearly as long as 

 the style. Capsules about twenty, compressed, arranged in a 

 circle round the columnar receptacle, each two-valved and 

 one-celled. Seeds solitary, kidney-shaped, compressed. Name 

 from altho, to cure. 343. 



1. A. officindlis. Common Marsh-Mallow. Leaves simple, very 



soft and downy, slightly five or three-lobed. Stems erect, three 



feet high, simple, round, downy : flowers in axillar panicles : pe- 

 tals pale rose-colour. The whole plant, especially the root, yields, 

 by decoction, a mild mucilage, used medicinally. Perennial : 

 flowers from July to September : grows in salt marshes : not com- 

 mon. Eng. Bot. vol. iii. pi. 147. Eng. FL vol. iii. p. 244. 1014. 



2. A. hirsuta. Rough-leaved Marsh-Mallow. Leaves simple, 

 rough with hairs, the lower obtusely, the upper acutely lobed, cre- 



nate ; stem rough. Annual : flowers in June and July : found 



in a field between Cobham and Cuxton, but is not indigenous. 

 Eng. Bot. Suppl. pi. 2674. Brit. FL 4th ed. p. 262. 1015. 



4. MA'LVA. MALLOW. 



Calyx inferior, double, permanent ; the outer smaller, of 

 three egg-shaped, acute leaves ; the inner of one leaf, divided 



