MALVAGBM. 



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America have been distinguished, which have carpels tapering at 

 the apex into a sort of short hollow beak, whose cavity is sepa- 

 rated by an interior processus horizontally directed. If to this 



Althcea officinalis. 



Fig. 141. 



Floriferoua branch {\). 



character were always added the dehiscence of the carpels into two 

 valv es and the reduction of the bracts of the involucel to two or one, 

 or if they were even totally absent, this genus Callirhoe might be 

 kept distinct ; but their inconstancy makes it seem preferable to us to 

 make it only a section of the genus Malva. 



