Malva.] MALVACEviE. 



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fruit pubescent, carpels smooth rounded on the edge." — Br Fl 

 p. 76. E. B. t. 1092. 



In dry waste or rulibishy places, under walls, by roadsides and on hedsebanks, 

 mostly in or about towns and villages ; frequent. Fl. June — October. 2^. 



Common in farm-yards. 



E. Jfed.— Amongst the ruins of Quarr Abbey. Apse heath. At Lake, by San- 

 down. By Hasely farm. By the gate of Shanklin farm, and abundant in a 

 walled space in the field facing the Well House at Niton. At Froghill farm, and 

 at French Mill, by the roadside. Abundant in Thorley farm yard. [By the fer- 

 ryhduse, St. Helen's, Dr. Bell-Sdter, Edrs.] 



W. Med. — About Freshwater village. 



3. M. moschata, L. Musk Mallow. Stem erect, radical leaves 

 reniform in 5 — 7 broad cut lobes, cauline leaves 5-partite pinnato- 

 multifid the segments linear, calyx hairy, leaflets of the outer one 

 linear, capsules hispid. Br. Fl. p. 76. E. B. t. 754. 



Var. /3. Flowers white. 



Not rare, but rather local, in woods, copses, along hedges, roadsides and bor- 

 ders of fields. Fl. June — October. %. 



E. A/erf.— Woods between Ryde and the Priory, occasionally, and in that on 

 the S. side of the Newport road facing Quarr Abbey. Between Shanklin and 

 Hide farm. In a wood under Arreton down, on the S. side, and in hedge-bottoms 

 of fields adjoining on the chalk, in cirasiderable plenty. Moors about the Wilder- 

 ness sparingly. Field-hedge near Play-Street farm. Fields about Preston farm, 

 and in hedgerows along the road between Tromblefield and Westridge. Knigh- 

 ton west copse. Edge of a wood near Yaverland farm. 



W. Med. — Very fine and abundant in woods on the Thorley side of the Yar- 

 mouth river. Frequent iu the woods at Swainston. Plentiful in a copse (Stop- 

 lets) between Yarmouth and Thorley. Common in Sluocombe coppice, a litiie 

 W. of Koughborough farm. Plentiful near Shorwell, with the upper leaves often 

 less divided than usual, and the middle stem-leaves like those at the root. Lime- 

 kiln cliff, W. Cowes, Miss G. Kilderbee. Between Carisbrook and Swainston, 

 B. T. W. 



|S. Road by Newtown (Parkhurst ?) Forest, Rev. G. E. Smith, who observes 

 that this variety is cultivated in cottage-gardens, and emits a powerful odour of 

 musk. A specimen near Newport Mill. On the Dover, Ryde, occasionally, pro- 

 bably an escape from gardens. At Sandown. 



Root large and tapering, tough and woody in the centre, fleshy externally, with 

 a brown wrinkled bark, branching at the crown. Stems numerous, erect or 

 ascending, 2 or 3 feet in height, somewhat woody at the base, terete, pale green, 

 often with a glaucous bloom, filled with a white pith, leafy and clothed with 

 copious spreading and deflexed, simple, rigid hairs, on tubercular bases, unmixed 

 with finer pubescence. Leaves alternate, the radical ones soon withering away ; 

 stem-leaves roundish, cleft to the very base into mostly 6 divisions, the lobes cut 

 and pinnatifld, their segments linear, pointed, incised, channelled and undulated, 

 more narrowly and deeply divided as they ascend, more or less pubescent, as are 

 their grooved petioles, with small hairs like those on the stem, but scarcely tuber- 

 cular at the base. Stipules linear-lanceolate, erect, entire or slightly notched, 

 fringed. Flowers aggregate, terminal on the stem and short branches, occasion- 

 ally solitary, handsome, rose-coloured or sometimes white, considerably larger than 

 those of the common Mallow, often 2 inches in diameter. Calyx clothed with 

 softer hairs than those on the stem, the exterior one of 3 lanceolate or linear-lan- 

 ceolate distinct segments, of which one is commonly inserted below the others at 

 some distance, evidently proving their relation to bracts, of which they occupy the 

 place : sometimes it is a fourth segment which is thus remote, which then appears 

 as a true bract, though by its situation it is evidently a part of the exterior calycine 

 whorl, and like the other leaflets is edged with white at the base ; interior or true 



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