thsa oi the Shops to Malva, ftaclly fo called. 1 think 
it had been more proper^ to avoid Confufwn and Mijiake^ to 
have left in quiet Pojfejfion of the Name Alchsea, the Plant 
on which it was impofed hy the Ancients^ by which that 
Plant is denoted in ail the Writings of Herbarifts and Fhy» 
fitians^ Ancient and Modern ; and impofed a new Name 
on the Indian Mallow^ as Monfteur Tourriefort hath done, 
viz. Ketniia, Suca as bear naked Seeds he divides into 
Malve in Specie fo called, and Alcece, The Notes of 
Malva he conilitutes, Many naked femiluniry Seeds, 
difpofed in the Form of a Rundie or Placenta : a double 
C.alix divided into Eight Segments or more, as it were 
into fo many Leaves,- Flowers made up of Five Leaves 
or Petala^ joined at the bottom, and a Stile in the Middle, 
furnillied with many Apices ; or inftead-of fuch Style, 
made up of many Leaves iPetala ^] fimple Leaves, alter- 
nately fituate, either roundifh or oblong, either entire 
and undivided, or divided but not deeply. Thofe called 
by the Name of Alcea are, he faith, of Two Kinds, Thofe 
of the firft K.ind agree in their principal Parts with Mai- 
lows, \jMalv^e~\ only their Stalks and Leaves are fome- 
what more rough, and thefe divided into narrower and 
deeper £tic/»/.'f'or Jags. Their Flowers have no Petala in 
the middk, but a Style with many Apices proceeding 
fomecimes fingly, fomeiimes many togaher out of the 
Bofoms of the Leaves. Thofe of the latter Kind have 
naked Triangular Seeds, Five for the mcft parr, rarely 
more or fewer, clofe joined together into a Head [Capir 
tulim'] either of a fmooth Surface, or echinated after the 
manner of Xanthium. Their Calices are divided into 
Five Segments, their Flowers like thofe of the precedent 
Kind, but lefs, their Leaves either entire only nicked in 
the Edges, refembling.the Leaves of Hornbeam^ Elm or 
Muiberry, or divided lefs or more deeply into Lobes % 
Thofe of the Second Kind, or Indian Mallows^ w'hich 
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