262 DIADELPHIA — HEXANDRIA. IFumaria. 



■ Waste-places and way-sides, frequent. Fl. June — Sept. U. — Ste7ns 



10 12 inches long, branching only from the root. Floivers small, 



roundish. 



3. M. moschdta, L. (^Musk 3fallow); stem erect, radical leaves 

 reniform in 5 or 7 broad cut lobes, cauline ones 3-partite pinna- 

 to-multifid their segments linear, calyx hairy, leaflets of the ext. 

 calyx linear. E. Bot. t. 754. 



Meadows, pastures and road-sides, especially in a gravelly soil ; not 

 unfrequent. Fl. July, Aug. "U .—2—3 feet high. Flowers large, beauti- 

 ful, rose-coloured, 1 — 2 from the axils of the terminal leaves. The 

 foliage yields a faint musky smell if drawn through the hand. 



5. KvTHMx. Linn. Marsh-mallow. 



1. A. officinalis, L. (^common Marsh-malloxo); leaves soft and 

 downy on both sides cordate or ovate toothed, entire or 3-lobed, 

 peduncles axillary many-flowered much shorter than the leaves. 

 E. Bot. t. 147. 



Marshes, mostly near the sea : rare in Scotland ; Sohvay Firth, and 

 near Campsie. Fl. Aug. Sept. "U. — 2 — 3 feet high, remarkable for the 

 dense, exquisitely soft and starry pubescence of the leaves and stems. 

 Flowers 3 — 4 together, on axillary stalks, large, pale rose-colour. — Af- 

 fords an abundant mucilage, and a decoction of it is in very general use. 

 In France it is made into lozenges, called Pates de Guimauve. 



2. A.*hirsu(a, L. (Jiisjnd Marsh-mallow); leaves cordate 

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

 nate, stem hispid, peduncles single-flowered longer than the 

 leaves. Cav. Diss. v. ii. t. 29. y] 1. Hook, in E. Bot. Suppl. t. 

 2674. 



Fields and waste places, rare. In a field near Cobbam, Mr J. Flayer. 

 At the same station, that is, between Cobham and Cuxton, the Rev. 



Prof. Henslow finds it abundantly. Fl. June, July. © Remarkable 



for its very hispid stems and calyces. 



CLASS XVIL DIADELPHIA. Fdaynents combined 

 in two sets; — {except in the first division of the 3d Order.) 



ORD. r. HEXANDRIA. Q Stamens. 



1. CoRYDALis. Cal. of 2, small, deciduous leaves. Pet. 4, 

 one of them gibbous or spurred at the base. Pod 2-valved, 

 compressed, many-seeded — Nat. Ord. Fumauiace^e, DC. — 

 Named from zopudaXig, the Greek name for the Fumitory^ with 

 which the present genus was, till lately, united. 



2. Fumaria. Cal, of 2, deciduous leaves. Pet. 4, one of 

 them gibbous or spurred at the base. Fruit indeliiscent, 1- 

 seeded, the style deciduous. — Nat. Ord. FuMARiACEiE, DC. — 

 Named iaomfumus, smoke, it is said on account of the smell. 



