92 MALVACE.'K 



7-branched. — Walls and gravelly banks; common. — Fl. July, 

 August. I'erennial. 



*** Hirhs : sepals friiii;cd wllh :^lanJs ■- stamens 3, hranehed : 

 styles 3 



TO. H. luiarllfoliain (Narrow-leaved St. John's-wort). — Stem 

 erect, terete, 6 — 12 in. high; leaves linear, blunt, revolute ; sepals 

 lanceolate, acute, with glandular teeth ;and black glands below; 

 stamens ^o\A lo-branched. — Devon, Cornwall, and Jersey ; very 

 rare. — Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



11. H. pulchnim (Small Upright St. John's-wort). — A slender, 

 glabrous plant ; stem erect, round, 12 —iS in. high ; leaves cordate- 

 amplexicaul, with pellucid glands ; flower-binls stained with red ; 

 sepals obtuse, fringed with sessile glands ; petals hinged with 

 glands. -Heaths and woods; common. — I-'l. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



12. H. Jilrsiituin ("Hairy St. John's ^vort). -Stem erect, round, 

 hairy, about two feel high ; leaves slightly stalked, pubescent, with 

 pellucid glands ; sepals narrow, acute, frrnged with stalked glands. 

 — Woods, especially on calcareous soil. — Fl. July, August, 

 f-'erennial. 



13. H. mpntdnum (Mountain St. John's-wort). — ^V similar 

 plant, but glabrous, with sessile leaves, with black glands on their 

 margins. — T.imestone hills; not common. — Fl. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



14. H. elides (Marsh St. John's-wort). — A shaggy plant ; stems 

 creeping, ascending ; leaves roundish, densely clothed in shaggy 

 down ; y7('7/'(,7-.f few, pale )ellow ; sepals- fringed with red-stalked 

 glands. — Spongy bogs; common. — Fl. |uly, August. Perennial. 



Ord. XVn. M.AJ.\'ACE.E. — The- Mallow Family 



A large and important family of herbaceous plants, shrubs and 

 trees, with scattered, stipulate leaves, which are palmately veined 

 and lobed. The ploivers are polysymmetric and generally con- 

 spicuous, and are in most cases furnished with an epiealvx or 

 involucel of bracts ; sepals 5, more or- less united at the base, 

 valvate in bud ; petals 5, twisted in bud ; stamens originally 5, but 

 much branched and carried up on a tube, so as toapi)ear indehnite 

 and monadelphous ; ea/pels many in a whorl, generally united, 

 each i-secded ; styles as many as the carpels, distinct or united ; 

 fntit a regma. There are about a thousand species in the Order, 

 mostly natives of tropical regions, whac llicy form a large pro- 

 portion of the vegetation, the numlier of species gradually 



