246 MONADELPHIA-POLYANDRIA. Malva. 



M. n. 1069. Hall. Hist. V. 2.22. 



M. vulgaris. Rail Sijn. 251. 



M. equina. Brunf.Herb.v.2.7\.f. 



M. sylvestvis elatior. Fiichs. Hist. 509./. Ic. 291 ./. 



Malva. Malth. Valgr. v.\.AU.f. Carner. Epit. 238./. 



About hedges, road sides, and in cultivated as well as waste ground, 

 common. 



Perennial. May — .-August. 



Root tapering, branching, whitish. Stetn much branched and 

 widely spreading, 1| to 3 feet high ; in a barren soil recumbent. 

 Leaves deep green, soft and downy, serrated, plaited j the up- 

 permost with fewer, but deeper, more acute, lobes, than the 

 lower ones. Fl. numerous, of a shining purple, veiny, on sim- 

 ple, aggregate, hairy, axillary stalks. Pollen whitish, large. 

 External part of the capsules reticulated. 



Mucilaginous and emollient like the Marsh-mallow. 



2. M. rotundifolia. Dwarf Mallow. 



Stems prostrate. Leaves roundish-heart-shaped, bluntly 

 five-lobed. Stalks when in fruit bent downwards. 



M. rotundifolia. Linn. Sp. Pl.969. Willd.v. 3.786. F/. Br. 741. 



Engl. Bot. V. \Q.t.\ 092. Curt. Lond.fasc. 3. t. 43. Hook. Scot. 



208. DeCand. Prodr. v. 1. 432. Fl. Dan. t. 721 . Cavan. Diss. 



79.t.26.f.3. Bull.Fr.t.\6l. 

 M. n. 1070. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 22. 

 M. sylvestris minor. Rail Syn. 251. 

 M. sylvestris pumila. Ger. Em. 930. f. Fuchs. Hist. 508./. Ic 



290./. Dad. Pempt. 653./. 

 Malva. Bru7if. Herb. v. 2. 70./. 

 /3. M. pusilla. Engl. Bot. V. 4. t. 241. With. 6\2. 

 M. parviflora. Huds. 307 ; not of Linn. 

 M. minor, flore parvo cseruleo. Dill, in Rail Syn. 25 1 . 



In waste ground, and by way sides in towns or villages, frequent. 



/3. Near Hithe in Kent. Sherard, and Hudson. 



Annual. .June — September. 



Root tapering. Whole plant smaller than the last, and quite pros- 

 trate, with numerous stems, scarcely branched. Leaves on long 

 stalks, with 5, often 7, shallow lobes. FZ. pale lilac-coloured, se- 

 veral together, on axillary hairy stalks. Pet. usually above twice 

 the length of the calyx, but in /S they are only as long as that 

 part, pale, and very inconspicuous. Caps, reticulated at the 

 back, in both varieties, as in M. sylvestris. 



M. microcarpa, DeCand. n. 37, sent by M. Thouin from the Paris 

 garden, has prostrate stems, and appears to me but a slight va- 

 riety of rotundifolia, with rather avaaWerJlowers than usual. 



