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XVI. MALVACEiE. 



iMdlva. 



baceous, leaves with 5 



(common 3L) ; stem usually erect her- 

 7 rather acute deep lobes, peduncles and 



a straight line. 



— ^w — ^, — . — .. ^. — , ^ ^^^ -^«^^, t-'v^v^win.ics aim 



petioles hairy, fruit glabrous reticulately wrinkled. E.Bx 67] 



Waste places and way-sides; not common in Scotland, l^. g^^g 

 ■ Stem 2 — 3 ft. or more high, branched. Flowers 3 or 4 too-ether 

 axillary. Petals obcordate, usually large and of a purplish rose' 

 colour with deeper veins, combined by the base of their claws. Dr 

 Bromfield tinds in the Isle of Wight a variety with flowers of a sky! 

 blue colour, another with prostrate stems, and a third with small 

 flowers. Whole plant, especially the fruit, mucilaginous and emol- 

 lient. 



2. M. rotundifolia L. {dwarf M.) ; stem decumbent, leaves 

 roundish cordate slightly and bluntly 5-lobed, fruit-stalks bent 

 down, petals 2 — 3 times longer than the calyx, fruit pubescent 

 carpels smooth rounded on the edge. E. B. t. 1092. 



Waste places and way-sides, not unfrequent in England ; rare in 

 Scotland, as about Edinburgh. 1|. 6—9. — Stems 10 — 12 inches 

 long, branching only from the root. Flowers small, roundish. Brae- 

 teas linear-lanceolate. Carpels meeting at the line of junction with 



Fries and some other foreign botanists consider the 

 next to be the true Af. rotundifolia L., and call this M, vulgaris, or 

 31, neglecta, 



3. M. "^pusilla Sm. {small-flowered M.) ; stem decumbent, 

 leaves roundish-cordate slightly and bluntly 5-lobed, fruit-stalks' 

 bent down, petals the length of the calyx, fruit pubescent, 

 carpels slightly reticulated margined. -E. B. t. 241. M. 

 borealis LiljebL 



Hythe, Kent: Hudson. ©? 7. — Of this as a British plant we 

 know nothing; only one specimen seems ever to have been found, 

 and that was probably introduced with corn : seeds taken from it 

 yielded the specimen from which the figure in the E, B. was made 

 in 1795. Supposing it to be a distinct species from the last, the 

 name originally given by Smith seems to be the oldest; but the 

 pubescence of the fruit and reticulation of the carpels appear to vary 

 so much in several allied species, that we fear these characters are only 

 of secondary importance. 



4. M. moschdta L. {Musk M.) : stem erect, radical leaves 

 reniform in 5 or 7 broad cut lobes, cauline ones 5-partite pin- 

 nato-multifid their segments linear, calyx hairy, leaflets of the 

 involucre linear. E, B. t. 754. 



Meadows, pastures, and road-sides, especially in a gravelly sou ; 

 not unfrequent. H. 7,8. — Stem 2—3 ft. liigh. /'Wm large, 

 beautiful, rose-coloured, 1 — 2 from the axils of the terminal leaves. 

 The foliage yields a faint musky smell if drawn through the hand. 



[M. verticillata L., (Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. vi. p. 259., tab. 

 7.) an erect plant, having leaves with 5 deep acute lobes, nearly 

 sessile flowers scarcely longer than the calyx, and glabrous carpels 





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