56 15. MALVACEAE. 



** Root truly perennial, with prostrate leafy shoots. Pet. 

 longer than the calyx. 



6. C. arvense (L.) : st. ascending prostrate below, /. linear- 

 lanceolate, fl. many, sep. and bracts lanceolate slightly acute 

 with membranous margins and tips, caps, at last longer than 

 the calyx, seeds small acutely tubercled. E. B. 93. St. long. 

 Fl. 7 14, in dichotomous panicles. Fruitstalks erect, bent just 

 under the calyx. St. and 1. hairy or glabrous. In sandy and 

 gravelly and chalky places. P. IV. VIII. 



7- C. latifolium (L.) ; pubescence short, st. prostrate, caspitose, 

 1. elliptical or lanceolate, fl. 1 3, sep. blunt with membranous 

 margins, bracts herbaceous, caps, slightly narrowing straight, 

 seeds large rugose, fruitstalks obliquely patent. E. B. 4/3. 

 Pubescence short, rigid, yellowish. Barren shoots usually long. 

 L. variable in shape. /3. Edmondstonii (Wats.); 1. roundish- 

 ovate dark green, st. short densely leafy. Alpine parts of Wales 

 and Scotland. j3. Unst, Shetland. Mr. T. Edmondston. P. V. 



E. S. 



8. C. alpinum (L.); hairy, st. ascending, 1. ovate ovate-oblong 

 or lanceolate, fl. few, sep. bluntish with membranous margins, 

 bracts herbaceous their margins often narrowly membranous, 

 caps, nearly cylindrical curved at the end, seeds small acutely 

 tubercled, fruitstalks obliquely patent. E. .472. St. 64. 3. 

 Pubescence long, silky. St. much branched below then simple, 

 elongated, prostrate or ascending. Fl. 1, 2 or 3 together, in a 

 forked panicle, shorter than their stalks. Alpine parts of Scot- 

 land and the north of England. P. VL VIII. E. S. 



9. C. trigynum (Vill.); st. decumbent with an alternate hairy 

 line, 1. elliptic-oblong, ped. pubescent 1 3-flowered terminal, 

 bracts herbaceous, styles mostly 3, caps, rather longer than the 

 calyx. Stellaria cerastoides L. E. B. 911. St. 4 8 in. long, 

 slender, leafless and much branched below. L. light green, gla- 

 brous (or hairy in C. nivale Don), subsecund and subfalcate. Fl. 

 large, white. Teeth of caps. 6 10. Highland mountains. P. 

 VII. VIII. S. L 



Order XV. MALVACEAE. 



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

 jestivation valvate. Pet. as many as the sepals, aestivation twisted. 

 Stam. monadelphous, indefinite; anth. 1 -celled, reuiform, burst- 

 ing transversely. Ovary formed by the union of several carpels 

 round a common axis. Carp. 1- or many-seeded. Embryo 

 curved with twisted or doubled cot) r ledons, albumen variable in 

 quantity. L. alternate, with stipules. Fl. axillary. 



