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fl. small and inconspicuous in axillary clusters, 1-3 or 4 . to- 
gether, mostly 2 or 3, and nearly or quite sessile ; pet. but little 
longer than the cal. retuse or widely notched, their claw very 
faintly and minutely ciiiate ; invol. br. or sep. 3 very narrow 
linear shorter than the broadly ovate sep. of the more or less 
smooth sometimes pubescent inner cal. ; pedic. in fr. slightly 
elongated mostly erect; fr. somewhat pubescent, rarely quite 
smooth, with the cal. spreading or erect and open; valves 
strongly and elegantly cancellated or sharply reticulated at the 
back, with the margins usually sharply raised or prominent and 
irregularly but distinctly toothed ; central disk small. — Linn. 
Herb.! Cav. Diss. 2. 68. t. 26. f. 1; Desf. ii. 116; Da i. 433; 
WB. ! i. 29 ; Presl 177 (except “ cor. caerulea ”). — Herb. ann. 
Mad. reg. 1, 2, ccc ; PS. reg. 1, 2, x ; ND. r ; GD. § ; SD. r. 
Roadsides and waste ground. March-July. — St. branched 6-18 
in. long. L. dark dull gr. on very long petioles which have fre- 
quently a thickly pubescent line on their upper side ; upper 1. 
always pubescent and more deeply and sharply lobed. Pet. 
pale pink or rose-colour, limb retuse with a wide irregular 
shallow sinus, the lobes unequal ; claw very slightly and spa- 
ringly fringed or ciiiate. Var. : 
a. pubescent ; st. prostrate ; fl. and fr. nearly or quite sessile ; 
pet. scarcely longer than the cal. — In dry poor soil or exposed 
places everywhere. 
/3. nearly smooth ; st. more erect or ascending ; fl. and fr. 
distinctly stalked, pedic. deflexed or declining ; pet. sometimes 
rather longer than in a, yet not exceeding twice the length of 
the cal. — In richer moister soil or amongst other herbage. — A 
rather larger stouter and more upright pi. than a, with the fruit- 
stalks often an inch long and mostly 2 or 3 together. I can 
perceive no sure or constant marks of difference to distinguish 
from this state of the species M. borealis (AVallm.) Bab., Koch 
{M. parvijlora Huds., M. pusilla Sm. EB. t. 241, M. rotundi- 
folia 1 3. DC., Sm. E. Fl., M. rotundifolia Fries) : and indeed, not 
only Hudson, but Linnaeus himself in his Herb, (see also EB. 
at t. 241) appears to have referred the plant in question to 
M. parvijlora L. : a specimen marked by Linnaeus himself 
“ parvifiora,” with “(Huds. J. E. S.) ” added in pencil by 
Sir J. E. Smith, being pinned in the Linn. Herb, to his original 
M. parvijlora , from which it only differs in the carpels being 
quite smooth (which is however sometimes the case in the 
Mad. pi.) and in their being perhaps somewhat more finely or 
neatly cancellated, with their margins not raised or prominent. 
It is remarkable that Dillenius in Bay’s Synopsis, p. 251, no. *3, 
calls the cor. “caerulea” in the “ Ilithe ” pi. (if/, parvijlora 
Huds.), as Presl does in his Sicilian M. parvijlora L. ; whereas 
it is as truly pink or rose-colour in the EB. “ Ilythe ” pi. as in 
