944 MALVA. [CLASS XVI. ORDER III. 
flowers, bright and shining, a deep purple towards the base. Pedun- 
cles slender, about an inch long, downy, shorter than the leaf stalk, 
single flowered. Calyx of one piece, cut into five erect acute lobes, 
surrounded by a Jarger involucrum, of one piece, cut into three broad 
spreading lobes. Petals five, abruptly heart-shaped, flat, and spread- 
ing, the claw short, inserted into the tube of the stamens. Fruit 
formed of from seven to fourteen compressed carpels, somewhat 
wrinkled at the back, ranged in a circle round the columnar axis, 
each carpel is formed of one cell, two valved, and bearing a single 
kidney-shaped seed. 
Habitat—Maritime rocks in the South and South-West of England, 
but rare. Islets off the coast of Anglesea; islesin the Frith of Forth; 
the harbour of Galway, the south isles of Arran, near Dingle, and on 
Ireland’s Eye, and near Ballantry, Ireland. 
Biennial ; flowering from July to October. 
This is a large branched plant, bearing numerous handsome 
showy flowers, which succeeding one another for a length of time, 
render it a valuable and ornamental plant for shrubberies, borders, 
&e., especially in gardens near the sea. 
GENUS IV. MAL'VA.—Lixn. Mallow. 
Nat. Ord. Matva'cEx. Brown. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx surrounded by a three Jeaved involucrum. JLruit 
of numerous one seeded capsules, arranged in a circle round a 
common axis.—Name altered from paraxn, soft: in allusion to 
the mild mucilaginous properties of the species. 
1. M sylves'tris, Linn. (Fig. 1094.) Common Mallow. Stem erect, 
or ascending; leaves seven lobed ; the petioles and axillary peduncles 
hairy, erect in fruit ; corolla large, very much longer than the calyx. 
English Botany, t. 671—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 245.—Hooker, 
British Flora, vol. i. p. 261.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 40. 
Root whitish, tapering, branched. Stem erect or ascending, from 
one to three feet high, round, branched, leafy, and clothed with soft 
spreading hairs. Leaves a dark green, paler beneath, clothed with 
soft pubescence, the lower ones with long round hairy petioles, of 
seven rounded crenated lobes, the upper ones with shorter petioles, 
more acute lobes and serratures. Inflorescence axillary clusters of 
large handsome pink flowers, with deeper radiating veins. Peduneles 
slender, hairy, erect in flower and fruit. Involucrum of three spread- 
ing ovate lanceolate hairy pieces. Calyx of one piece, cut into five 
broadly acute lobes, hairy. Corolla of five spreading obcordate 
petals, the lobes often obliquely cut. ruit numerous, carpels 
united together around a common axis, each carpel is kidney-shaped, 
rough, with reticulations on the margin, single seeded. 
