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1, Finger’d-leaved Vervain-Mallow. 
Alcea foliis digitatis. 
The root is large, thick, white, and fpread- 
ing. 
The leaves that’ rife from it are large, of a 
roundifh form, but deeply cut in five places: they 
~ ftand on long foot{talks, and are of a pale green. 
The ftalks are* numerous, firm, and woody : 
they rife to fix feet in height, and are of a yel- 
lowifh green, and rough to the touch, 
The leaves on thefe are numerous, and very 
beautifully divided into five parts, in a fingered 
manner : they ftand on rough footftalks, and are 
of a pale green. 
The flowers are numerous and large, and are 
of a very beautiful bright red: the feeds ftand 
in rounded fat clufters. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in Augutt. 
C. Bauhine calls it Alcea cannabina, J. Bau- 
hine, Alcea pentaphylli folio five cannabina. 
2. Hairy Vervain Mallow. 
Alcea bir futa. 
The root is long, white, and thick, and has 
many fibres, 
Si EieyR 1 
FOREIGN 
SPECIES 
The leaves that rife from it are rounded, but 
‘have three vifible indentings : they ftand on long 
footftalks, and are of a pale green, and hairy. 
The ftalks are numerous: they rife from the 
centre of this clufter of leaves; and are round, 
yellowifh, weak, and ten inches high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on them, and are 
divided each into three parts, and of a pale green, 
and hairy. 
The flowers are moderately large, and of a 
bright red; and they ftand in a rough hairy cup. 
The feeds follow in a flat rounded head. — 
It is a native of France and Italy, and flowers 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Alcea hirfuta. J. Bauhine, 
| Alcea villofa. 
The virtues of the vervain mallow are the fame 
with thofe of the common mallow, but in an infe- 
rior degree. 
There are feveral other plants allied to the ma/- 
Jow kind in their general appearance, but produ- 
cing their feeds in capfules: thefe are diftinguifhed 
by modern writers under the names of fda, €e. 
and will be treated of in the next clafs. 
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Thofe of which there are no fpecies natives of BRITAIN. 
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"THE flower is compofed of three petals, or of feveral ranges of petals, three in each ; and has 
three-leaved cup. The feeds ftand in a naked clufter; and are numerous, oblong, pointed ee 
each end, and lightly hairy. When the flower is fingle, there ftands’a tuft of numerous filaments in 
the centre: in the double flowers thefe are lefs diftinétly feen. 
Linnzus places this among the polyandria polygynia. 
In his firft works he makes it a feparate ge- 
nus; in his latter he confounds it with the anemone; but their difference is very obvious and 
certain, the anemone having no cup to the fower. There is properly only one fpecies of 
this plant ; 
but culture has raifed a multitude of varieties of it; fome of which that appea itti 
5 > th 
. from the reft, have been defcribed by authors as if diftin® fpecies. ge 
Single Blue Hepatica. 
Hepatica flore fimplici cer uleo. 
The root is compofed of a large flefhy head, 
and a vaft quantity of fibres: thefe laft fo cover 
the tuberous part on all fides, that it appears, 
on taking out of the ground, to be only a tuft 
of fibres. 
From feveral parts of. this root rife firft naked 
ftalks fupporting the flowers, and afterwards the 
leaves. As nature has inverted the general order 
in the growth of this plant, it is proper, in the 
defcription, we follow her courfe. 
The footftalks which fupport the flowers are 
fhort, and very flender :; one flower ftands on each 
and this is compofed naturally of three, fix. or 
nine petals; for in the wild plant there is found 
all that variety. When the petals are only three 
they ftand in a regular order; when fix, there is 
a fecond range of three over the firft; and when 
nine, a third range over that, In the centre there 
1s a great tuft of fibres; and under the flower 
there is a three-leaved cup, which temains when 
me is fallen. The common colour of the flower 
is blue in its natural ftate i 
Cece ee te, fometimes red, and 
The 
