The BRITISH HERBAL. 
DIVISION 1. BRITISH SPECIES. 
1. Common Mallow. 
Maha vulgaris. 
The root is long, large, white, and furniflied 
with many fibres. 
The leaves rifing from it (land on long foot- 
ftalks, and are oi a roundifii form, but deeply 
waved, or finuated and notched. 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, and a yard 
high: the leaves on it refemble thofe from the 
root, but are fmaller and more waved. 
The flowers are large, and of a beautiful red. 
They ftand in great numbers at the tops of the 
ftalk and its branches. 
The feeds are collefted into a round, flatclufler, 
and preferved by the cup. 
It is common in all wafie places, and flowers 
throughout the fummer. 
C. Bauhine calls it Maha Jilvcjlris folio finuato. 
Others, Malva 'oulgaris. 
1. L.ittle white-flowered Mallow. 
Maha fimila fiore alho. 
The root is long, aud whice, and has many 
fibres. 
The leaves rife in a tuft or chiller, and have 
moderately long footlfalks. They are of a 
roundifh figure, and pale green colour, and are 
lefs finuated than thofe of the common malloiv. 
The ftalks are numerous, and they lie upon 
the ground, though fufficiently thick, and firm. 
The leaves on them are like thofe at the bot- 
tom, but fmaller. 
The flowers ftand on flicrt footftalks, and are 
large, and of a pale whitifh colour, fometimcs 
with a few ftreaks of purplifh, and fometimes a 
faint tinge of the fame colour throughout. 
The feeds ftand in little round clufters. 
It is common by way fides, and flowers all 
fummer, 
C. Bauhine calls it Maha fylvefl.ris folio rolunJo. 
3. Small purple-flowered rough-feeded Mallow. 
Maha fiore minors purpurea feminibus rv.gofu. 
The root is long, white, and hung round with 
many fibres. 
The leaves ftand on long, flender footflalks, 
and are little, of a roundifli figure, but deeply 
finuated, and of a dufky green. 
The ftalk is thick, tolerably cre£V, and about 
a foot high. 
Its leaves are altogether like thofe from the 
root, but fmaller, and on fliorter footftalks. 
The flowers are numerous, very fmall, and of 
a blueifh purple. 
'i he feeds follow in a fmall, rounded, flat 
clufter, and are rough to the touch. 
It is not common with us, but grows in Kent 
and Suflix, and fome other places in barren 
ground. It flowers in June. 
Boerhaave calls it Maha fiheflris foliis finuatis 
minoribus fiofculis minimis Anglica. Ray, Maha 
minor fiore parvo carulio. 
4. Tree Mallow. 
JMalua arborea. 
The root is very large, woody, white, long, 
and tuU of fibres. 
The leaves that rife irom it ftand on long 
footftalks, and arc of a rounded figure, deeply 
finuated and notched ; and of a pale green colour^ 
and velvety foftnefs to the touch. 
T'he ftalk rifes in the midft of the cJufter of 
them, and they prefcntly after fade and wither away. 
This is fix or feven ioot high, and very thick, 
firm, and woody. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it on long foot- 
ftalks, and are fo much finuated that they fre- 
quently appear in fome degree curled. 
The flowers are fmall, and whitifii, with a 
pale blufli of purple. 
The feeds ftand in round, flat clufters. 
It is not unfrequent about our fea-coafls, and 
flowers in July. 
Mcrret calls it Maha arborea marina nofiras. 
DIVISION II. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
1. Curled Mallow. 
Maha foliis crijpis flo: c albido. 
The root is long, white, and thick. 
The leaves rifing from it ftand on long foot- 
ftalks, and are large, rounded, but a little ob- 
long, and very beautifully curled about the edges. 
If this were the fole dirtinftion irom the common 
kind, we fiiould fay culture or accident gave it, 
and fliould make it a variety ; but there are others 
that fliew it to be a diftind fpecies. 
The ftalk is firm, upright, and fix, feven, or 
eight foot high, thick enough to fupport itfelf very 
erect; but not nearly fo thick as in the tret malloiv. 
The leaves on it are lomewhat more oblong 
tlian thofe from the root. 
The flowers fland in clullers about the inferti- 
ons of the footftalks of the leaves : they have very 
fliort pedicles, and are of a pale whitilh colour. 
3. 
The feeds ftand in a rounded, flat head. 
It is a native of the fouth of France, whence 
we have brought it into our gardens. It flowerg 
in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Maha foliis crifpis. J. Bau- 
hine, Maha crifpa. 
2. The Hollyhock. 
Maha rofea. 
The root is I'ong, white, thick, and hard, and 
has about it a vaft quantity of fibres. 
The firft leaves are roundifh, and curled about 
the edges. They are of a pale green, fomewhat 
hairy, and ftand on long footftalks. 
The ftalk is feven or eight feet high: the leaves 
ftand irregularly on it, and are large, and placed 
I on long footftalks. They are of a more oblong 
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