37<5 MONADELFHIA POLYANDRIA. 



the dyfcntery, tenefmus, and gonorrhasa, and is 

 ufed by way of cataplafm in inflammations : the 

 ancients fed upon a fpecies of mallow, tho' pro- 

 bably not this kind, as we learn from Horace : 



- * Me pafcunt olivas, 



Me Cichorea, Je^vefq ', tnal'va. Lib. I. Ode. xxx. 



mofchata 3. MALVA caule ere6lo, foliis radicalibus reniformi- 

 bus incifis j caulinis quinquepartitis pinnato-mul- 

 tifidis. Lin. fyft. nat. 461. ^. fl, 971. {Column, 

 ecph. L p, 148. /. 147. Moris, hiji, f. 5, /. 18./. 



4.) 

 Jagged-leav'd Mallow, or Mufk-mallow. Jnglis, 

 In meadows and paftures, but not very common. 

 We obferved it about Duplin, near Perlh, &c. 

 ^.VIII. 

 The ftalk is a cubit high, branched and hairy •, the 

 hairs erc6l, and arifing each fingle one from a 

 prominent dot or tubercle : the radical leaves are 

 obfcurely divided into five lobes, and ferrated on 

 the edges : thofe on the llalk have their lobes 

 divided to the bafe, which lobes are pinnatlfid, 

 and thefe pinnule again fharply ferrated : the 

 flowers are flefh-color'd, have a mufky fmcll, 

 and grow in clufters at the tops of the branches, 

 one on a peduncle : the capfules are hairy, and 

 about fifteen in a circle round the receptacle. 



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