NAT. ORDER. 
Papaveracece. 
ATHEiE ROSEA. GARDEN HOLLYHOKE. 
Class XVI. Monadelphia. Order VIII. Polyandria. 
Gen. Char. Calyx, double; the exterior six or nine-cleft. Cap- 
sules, numerous and one-seeded. 
Spe. Char. Leaves, simple and downy. 
The root is perennial, long, woody, fibrous, of a white color, 
tough, and very deeply set in the ground ; the stem is upright, round, 
downy, from three to five feet in height, and somewhat branched 
towards the top ; the leaves are alternate, petiolate, heart-shaped, 
pointed, serrated, downy, and those towards the top of the stalk 
somewhat cornered ; the flowers proceed from the axilla? of the leaves 
in thick pannicles, along the stem and branches in spikes, small 
leaves, flowers, and buds for flowers together ; the petals are five in 
number, broad, round, and assume a variety of colors ; the calyx is 
double, the exterior being divided into about nine segments, and the 
interior into five ; the filaments are numerous, united at their bases, 
and supporting kidney-shaped anthers ; the germen orbicular, bear- 
ing a cylindrical style, which supports many stigmas ; the seeds are 
numerous and uniform. 
The present figure is a representation of the Athece, rosea, formerly 
known and called by the name of Malva arborea, by Salmond, and 
by others Malva rosea. 
Athece hortensis, Double-flowered Holyhoke, in its roots, stalks, 
leaves, magnitude, manner and form of growing, and its seeds exactly 
resembles the former, the difference being the present one is double, 
Vol. iii. — 51. 
