CLASS XVI. ORDER III. } LAVATERA. 943 
De Cand. Prod. 1. p. 643. 
Root small, tapering. Stem slender, spreading, branched, clothed 
with soft pubescence. Zeaves numerous, opposite, clothed with soft 
close pressed downiness, the lower ones with long spreading footstalks, 
roundish, kidney-shaped, deeply divided into from seven to nine 
wedge-shaped lobes, and mostly three-cleft, with rounded obtuse 
points, the upper leaves nearly sessile, not so much divided, and 
acutely pointed. Bracteas small. Flowers small, a blueish pink. 
Peduneles short, downy. Pedicles short, erect in flower, spreading, or 
deflexed in fruit. Bracteas awl-shaped. Calyw downy, of five ovate 
lanceolate three ribbed pieces. Petals ovate, notched, small, scarcely 
longer than the calyx. Stamens mostly only five. Curpels ovate, 
even, clothed with soft close pressed hairs. Seeds ovate, smooth, 
and even. 
Habitat—Dry sandy fields and waste places ; frequent in England, 
less common in Scotland. 
Annual; flowering from June to September. 
This, like the last species, is extremely variable in its size, 
according to the more or less humid or favourable situation for its 
growth. The peduncles are short, sometimes a solitary flower is 
found in the axis of the leaves, but this is a rare occurrence. 
ORDER III. 
POLYAN'DRIA. Many STAMENS. 
GENUS IIL LAVATE'RA.—Linn. Tree Mallow. 
Nat. Ord. Matva'chpm. Brown. 
Grn. Cuar. Calyx surrounded by an involucrum, from three to six 
lobed. Fruit of numerous one seeded capsules, arranged in a 
circle round a common axis.—Name in honour of two Lavaters, 
physicians of Zurich, friends of Tournefort. 
1. L. arbo'rea, Linn. (Fig. 1093.) Sea-tree Mallow. Stem shrubby ; 
leaves downy, plaited, seven angled ; peduncles numerous, axillary, 
single flowered, much shorter than the leaf stalk. 
English Botany, t. 1841.—Englisb Flora, vol. iii. p. 248.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 261.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 41. 
Root much branched, long. Stem erect, from three to eight feet 
high, round, thick, branched above into a leafy head, rough, with 
deflexed compound bristly hairs. Leaves alternate, of a greyish 
green colour, clothed with soft pubescence, the footstalks long, 
flexible, large, seven angled, plaited, and crenated on the margin. 
Inflorescence axillary clusters of numerous large purplish rose coloured 
