374 MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 



balfamic pc6toral for coughs and hoarfencfTes. 

 It IS found alfo to be ferviceable in nephritic 

 complaints, and the ftranguary ; and is ufed in 

 cataplafms and fomentations againft fwellings. 

 The root will turn water to a jelly. 



LAVATERA. Gen, pL 842. 

 CaL duplex, exterior trifidus. Jrilli plurimi, mo- 

 nofpcrmi. 

 arhorea t. LAVATERA caule arboreo, foliis feptemangula- 



ribus tomentofis plicatis, pedunculis confertis 



nnifloris axillaribus. Sp. pL 972. (Figuramjiden- 



dam non invenio.) 

 Sea Tree-mallow. Jnglis, 

 On roclis upon the fea coait, as in Inch-Garvey and 



MykriC'hch^ in the Firth of Forth^ and in Ba£e 



ifiand. Sihbald, ^ . Yll. 

 The ftalk is erect, branched, and three or four feet 



high, firm and flrong : the flowers are red, ftreak'd 



with veins of a deeper color. It is often brought 



into gardens for ornament. 



MALVA. Gen, pi 841. 

 CaL duplex, exterior 3-phyllus. yfn'/// plurimi, mo- 

 nofpermi. 

 rotundifolia MALVA caule prollrato, foliis cordato orbiculatis 

 ^ , obfolete quinquelobatis, pedunculis frudiferis 



declinatis. Lin. fyft. nat, 460. Sp. pL 969. (Ger, 

 em. 930./. 2. Moris, hift. f, 5. /. 17./. 7.) 



Dwarf> 



