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Locality. In woods, copses, along hedges, roadsides, and borders 

 of fields, but rather local. P. Fl. July, August. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



In all the districts on a gravelly soil, rare on the clay and chalk. 

 Whole plant clothed more or less with spreading simple not starry 

 hairs, unaccompanied by any short dense woolly pubescence; Calyx 

 clothed with softer hairs than those on the stem, the exterior one of 

 three lanceolate or linear lanceolate 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. 

 This species derives its trivial name from the agreeable musky odour 

 it exhales, which is perceptible chiefly on opening a box in which 

 the plant has been kept, or in dry warm weather, or when made to 

 flower in a room ; at other times it is inodorous or nearly so. The 

 present is less mucilaginous than the other British species, and is 

 seldom used in medicine, but the beauty of its blossoms entitle it to 

 a place in the flower garden. It has by some botanists been con- 

 founded with the "Malta Alcea," (Linn.) Vervain Mallow, but it may 

 be distinguished from that species, by the hairs on the plant being 

 simple, the root leaves kidney-shaped, and the three outer leaves of 

 the calyx being spear-shaped. In "M. Alcca" (Linn.), the hairs on 

 the plant are starry, the root leaves angular, and the three outer 

 leaves of the calyx egg-shaped. The white flowered variety of "M. 

 moschata" which is sometimes cultivated in gardens, I have observed 

 in plantations on Salisbury Plain, and in Bradford Wood. Mr. 

 William Bartlett informs me he has likewise noticed it near Great 

 Bedwyn. 



2. M. sylvcstris, (Linn.) Wood or common Mallow. Engl. Bot. 

 t. 671. Reich Icones, v. 168. 



Locality. Woods, roadsides, and waste places. Very common. 

 P. Fl. June, September. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. In all the Districts. 



3. M. rotundifolia, (Linn.) Round-leaved or Dwarf Mallow. Engl. 

 Bot. t. 1092. M. vulgaris, Fries. Reich Icones, v. 167. 



Locality. Waste places near houses, frequent. P? Fl. June, 

 September. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



Distributed more or less throughout all the Districts. All the 

 species of this Genus, as well as of the Genera Althcea and Lavatera, 



