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atro-ruhenteyC,iy^, Adonis flower. Red Maithes.' .| 
In the clofes betwixt Stonechurch and ^em hithe. j 
At Chatham : Alfo near Downham bridge, in Nor^ -1 
folk, Mr Martin, I 
Myosuros, Moufe-tail. The flower is pentape- 
talous, ' of an herbaceous colour : The feeds i 
grow in a long fpike, refembling a Moufe’s tail. { 
We have but one fpecies of this plant, viz, j 
Myofuros^ R. 251. Holofteo affinis^ Cauda muris^ \ 
C. 190. Hoi, Loniceri^ Cauda muris vocatum^ P. 500. } 
G. 345. Moufe-tail. On Wefton green, a little on c 
this flde Eltham, It has thick grafly leaves, nar- i 
row towards the flalk, and broader at the ends. It { 
has feveral round naked (talks, each bearing one 1 
little flower at the top, compofed of five herbaceous 
petals, fucceeded by a head of two or three inches 1 
Jong, refembling a moufe’s tail. 
Malva, Mallow. The flower is monopetalous, i 
in the (hape of a bell ; its brim wide expanded, 1 
and cut into five fegments to the bafe ; from its i 
bottom rifes a pyramidal tube, for the moil part^ i 
loaded with many little threads : 7 ’he ftyle, I 
which is fix’d, like a nail, in the lowermoft part s 
of the flower, and in a tube, (hoots from the : 
empalement, and is changed into a fruit, flat, i 
and round like a cheefe ; fometimes pointed, oft- \ 
en wrap’d up within the empalement, and divi- 1 
dedinto feveral cells ; fo difpofed round the axle, I 
that each lodge appears mod artificially jointed t 
within the feveral (Iri^, or channels. The feed i 
is frequently found of a kidney-fhape *, the leaves \ 
like thofe of the Greater Maple. The fpecies r 
are : 
* I. Malva vul^aris^ R, 2^19 P.299, 1 
G. 785. fylv, folio Jinuato^ C. 314. Common Mai- i 
low. By hedges, and among rubbilh. 
2. Malva fylveftris minor^ R.251, P.299, ‘ 
^umila^ G. 785. fylv, folio rotundo^ C. 314. Small 
Wild 
