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peatedly dichotomous, green. Fl. green, often solitary in the 

 forks of the stem, or densely corymbose. A biennial state (S. 

 biennis Rent.) is often taken for Sp. 2. Sandy fields. A. VI. 

 VIII. E. S. I. 



2. S. percn'nis (L.) ; decandrous, sef/m. of fr.-cal. connivent 

 blunt rounded with a broad blunt membranous margin. E. B. 

 352. Styles usually falling short of the stamens. St. nearly 

 simple or irregularly branched, procumbent, glaucous, at length 

 reddish. Fl. variegated with green and white. L. erect, di- 

 rected to one side. Sandy fields in Norfolk and Suffolk. 

 Stanner rocks, Radnorshire. P. VI. VIII. E. 



Order XV. MALVACEAE. 



Sep. 5 or 3 or 4, more or less connected below, often double, 

 valvate in the bud. Pet. as many as the sepals, adnate to base 

 of stain., twisted in the bud. Stam. many, connected at the 

 base into a tube ; anth. 1-celled, reniform, bursting transversely. 

 Ovary formed by the union of several carpels round a common 

 axis. Carp, 1- or many-seeded. Embryo curved with twisted 

 or doubled cotyledons, albumen variable in quantity. L. alter- 

 nate, with deciduous stipules. Fl. axillary. 



1. MALVA. Styles many. Cal. double, outer 3 -leaved, inner 

 5-h'd. Carpels in a ring round a thick axis, each 1-seeded. 



2. ALTHAEA. Styles many. Cal. double, outer 6 9-Jid, 

 inner 5-fid. Carpels as in Malva. 



3. LAVATKRA. Styles many. Cal. double, outer 3-lobed, 

 inner 5-fid. Carpels as in Malva. 



1. MAL'VA Linn. Mallow. 



I. M. moschdta (L.) ; st. erect, 1. palmate with 5 7 deep 

 bipinnatifid lobes, lower 1. incise-crenate, stipules lanceolate 

 acute, fruitstalks erect, outer sep. linear-lanceolate, fruit hairy. 

 E. B. 754. R. v. 169. Fl. large, rose-coloured, on axillary 

 single-flowered peduncles, crowded at the extremity of the stem 

 and branches. Cal. hairy. St. 1 2 feet high. [Varies consider- 

 ably in the cutting of the 1. : the common British form, var. laciniata 

 Lej., has all the 1. deeply lobed with narrow segments ; var. heterophylla 

 Lej. has the lower roundish entire, the upper deeply lobed; var. in- 

 teqrifolia Lej. has all roundish and more or less entire.] Gravelly 

 places. P. VII. VI11. Musk Mallow. E. S. I. 



[M. Alcea (L.) ; outer sep. ovate acute, fr. glabrous ; should 

 be found in England.] 



