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3. It. catharticum (purging R) Pastures, etc., very frequent. 

 Plant from 2 to 8 inches high ; stem branching above. Lower 

 leaves opposite and oblong ; upper leaves lanceolate. Flowers 

 small arid white, in forked, spreading panicles. Park Hill. Dad- 

 dyhole Plain. (E. B. t. 382.) A. VI.-YIII. 



RADIOLA. FLAX-SEED. 



R. Millegr ana (Thyme-leaved F., or A ll-seed.) Moist heaths 

 and boggy soils. A very diminutive plant, from 1 to 2 inches 

 high ; stems repeatedly forked ; leaves ovate, distant from each 

 other. Flowers mostly terminal and solitary, on short stalks, but 

 some growing also from the axils of the branches. Bovey Heath. 

 Haldon. (Linum Radiola, Linn. E. B. t. 983.) A. vn. viu. 



OED. XVI. MALVACE.E. 



LAVATERA. TEEE MALLOW. 



Li. arborea (sea Tree Mallow?) On insulated sea-rocks in 

 the south and south-west of England. Plant with a somewhat 

 woody stem, varying in height from 3 to 8 feet, branching ; leaves 

 downy, divided into seven shallow crenated segments, alternate ; 

 flowers large, of a shining purplish rose-colour, with dark purple 

 streaks at the base of the petals. Orestone and Thatcher rocks, 

 off Torquay. (E. B. t. 1841.) B. vn.-ix. 



MALVA. MALLOW. 



1. M. sylvestris (common Malloiv.) Waysides and waste 

 grounds, very frequent. Plant growing to 2, 3, or 4 feet high ; 

 stem erect. Leaves divided into from 5 to 7 deep lobes, with 

 acute angles. Flowers axillary, in bunches of 3 or 4, deep rose- 

 coloured, with purplish veins. Roadsides and lanes in the vici- 

 nity. (E. B. t. 671.) P. vi.-ix. 



2. M. rotundifolia (dwarf M.} Similar localities to the pre- 

 ceding. Stem branching only from the root, decumbent, 8 or 10 

 inches long ; leaves roundish heart-shaped, with from 5 to 7 shal- 

 low lobes ; flowers small, rose-purple. Road to Ansti's Cove. 

 Babbicombe road, etc. (E. B. t. 1092.) P. vi.-ix. 



3. M. moschata (musk M.) In pastures and by roadsides. 

 A much more delicate-looking plant than the two last ; from 2 to 

 3 feet high ; the leaves much divided into almost linear segments ; 



