54 15. MALVACE&. 
Pubescence short, rigid, yellowish. Barren shoots usually long. 
L. variable in shape.—8. Edmondstonii (Wats.); 1. roundish- 
ovate dark green, st. short densely leafy—Alpine parts of Wales 
and Scotland. 8. Unst, Shetland. Mr. T. Edmondston. eee 
8. C. alpinum (L.); hairy, st. ascending, 1. ovate ovate-oblong 
or lanceolate, fl. few, sep. bluntish with membranous margins, 
bracts herbaceous their margins often narrowly membranous, 
caps. nearly cylindrical curved at the end, seeds small acutely 
tubercled, fruitstalks obliquely patent.—E. B. 472. St. 64.3.— 
Pubescence long, silky. St. much branched below then simple, 
elongated, prostrate or ascending. Fl. 1, 2 or 3 together, in a 
forked panicle, shorter than their stalks.—Alpine parts of Scot- 
land and the north of England. P. VI.—VIII. E. 8. 
9. C. trigynum (Vill.); st. decumbent with an alternate hairy 
line, 1, elliptic-oblong, ped. pubescent 1—3 flowered terminal, 
bracts herbaceous, styles mostly 3, caps. rather longer than the 
calyx.—Stellaria cerastoides L. E. B. 911.—St. 4—8 in. long, 
slender, leafless and much branched below. — L. light green, gla- 
brous (or hairy in C. nivale Don), subsecund and subfaleate. Fi. 
large, white. Tecth of caps. 6—10.—Highland mountains. P. 
VII. VIII. 8.1. 
Order XV. MALVACE. 
Sep. 5 or 3 or 4, more or less connected below, often double, 
wstivation valvate. Pet. as many as the sepals, wstivation twisted. 
Stam. monadelphous, indefinite; anth. 1-celled, reniform, burst- 
ing transversely. Ovary formed by the union of several carpels 
round a common axis. Carp. 1- or many-seeded. Embryo 
ewrved with twisted or doubled cotyledons, albumen variable in 
quantity.— L. alternate, with stipules. Fl. axillary. 
1], Matva. Styles numerous. Cal. double, outer 3-leaved, 
inner 5-fid. Caps. orbicular, many-celled : cells 1-seeded 
and circularly arranged. 
2. ALTH#A. Styles numerous. Cal. double, outer 6—9-fid, 
imer 5-fid. Caps. orbicular, many-celled: cells 1-seeded 
and circularly arranged. ; 
3. Lavarera. Styles numerous. Cal. double, outer 3-lobed, 
inner 5-fid. Caps. orbicular, many-celled: cells 1-seeded 
and circularly arranged. 
1. Manva Linn. 
1. M. moschata (L.); st. erect, 1. kidncyshaped with 5 or 7 
deep pinnatifid lobes, lower 1. incise-crenate, stipules lanceolate 
