MONADELFHIA POLYANDRIA. 373 



Dvvarf-maliow. Jngl^s. 



In wafle places and by way-fides near towns and 

 villages. G . YU. VJil. 



Befides what is imply'd in the fpecific difference, 

 the leaves are crenated : the peduncles are about 

 an inch Jong, bearing generally a fingle flower, 

 but fometimes two or three : the petals are com- 

 monly white, flreaked with red veins : the leg- 

 ments of the interior calyx are denticulated ; the 

 leaves of the exterior are narrow and linear : t\\Q 



fiyles are thirteen or fourteen, hairy on one fide. 



Jytvejtris 2. M. caule eredlo herbaceo, foliis feptemlobatis acu- 

 tis, pedunculis petiolifque pilofis. Sp. pL g6g, 

 (Ger, em. 930./. i. Moris, hift. f, v. /. 17./. 8. 

 Blackwell /. 22) 

 Common Mallow. Anglis. 

 In wafte places and by way- fides. <^ . VI-VIII. 

 The ftalK is a yard high, or more, and branched : 

 the leaves are ferrated : the flowers grow in cluf- 

 ters from the aU of the leaves, one on a pedun- 

 cle : the petals are widely expanded, and deeply 

 emarginated, of a purple color, with deeper 

 veins : the calyces are hairy : the capfuks from 

 ten to fifteen. 

 The whole plant is mucilaginous and emollient -, a 

 decodion of it, or an infufion of the flowers is 

 recommended as a peroral, and good for the 

 (tone and gravel, and other complaints in the 

 urinary paflages j it is likewife given in clyfl:ers in 



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