64 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
cultivated ; it has become naturalized along the gee of New England 
and Long ¢ island. The whole e plant, especially the root, contains a great 
deal of mucilage, and is employed by European physicians for poultices 
and such purposes as Slippery Elm bark is used with us. ALTrH#A 
nose is the common ean aia of the gardens, many vorlation of which 
are cultivated for ornam 
2. MAL’VA, DL. Mattow. 
[Latinized from the Greek, Malache, soft ; in allusion to its emollient nature.] 
weg of 3 oblong or setaceous fossa: Carpels several, dry, inde- 
hiscent, arranged in a Bele paisa y the axis, as in Althea. 
1, M. rorvnptro’t1a, L. Stem herbaceous, prostrate ; leaves cordate- 
orbicular, pe pscurely lobed, crenate-toothed ; pedicels axillary, 1-flowered, 
geome’ Matya. Running Mallows. Low Mall 
Petite Mauve. Germ. Rundblaettrige Malve. ee Malva de 
hoja redo: ci . 
Root perennial. Stem 1-2 or 3 feet a we branch: base or from the root. Leaves 
1-2or3 teohes? in diameter, oenagecd 5- Serve pg dese fags 2-6 6 or 8 i inches to age mes 
es <M ng i ewes ques Gd thane twice as lou as Peer the calyx, reddish white with Site a 
July —October. —— site May “plan 
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