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Original Articles. 
LAVATERA SYLVESTRIS, Brot., IN BRITAIN. 
By Henry Trovey, M.B., F.L.S. 
(Tas. 191.) 
In the January number of this Journal (p. 16) will be found a note 
recording the occurrence of avatera sylvestris, Brot, in the Scilly 
Isles, where it was gathered by Mr. Curnow. We are indebted to 
hairy externally, denticulate-ciliate, with tufts of hair at the margin. 
Petals about thrice as long as calyx, narrow, notched or shallowly bi- 
ments, which are connivent in a reduplicate valvate manner over it, 
eir points meeting in the centre and erect ; the epicalyx also becomes 
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be seen from the above description , and from the accom- 
gure, that this species has a close 
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greyish-green colour and stellate hairiness, the more acute stipul 
the rather smaller and bluer flowers, the fewer carpels which are 
perfectly smooth and unwrinkled on the back, and the more e 
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where L. sylvestris has been collected in England. 
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