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Time . 
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JDifcovery 
and Place. 
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bini folio Clus. 1 . iv. p. xxv. Tig. opt. Alee* Penfaphyllea 
Park • 302. Fig. Alcea Pentaph/lli folio vel Cannabina . 
I. B. 2. 1. 23. p. 9 5 8. Pig. Grows 6 or 7 foot high 5 its 
Hemp-like Leaves , eafily dittinguifh it from all others. 
Mr Ray has obferv’d this at Montpelier, as alfo in Italy 
and Sicily. . \ 
Curled Mallow. Mauve frifee Gall. Ray 597. 1. Malva 
crifpa Ger. 7S5. Fig. 3. JonJl. 931. Fig. 3. opt. [. B. 2.1. 
25. p. 952. Fig . Malva crifpatis oris Lob. Ic. 2 651. 
Malva crifpis folijs Pari \. 298- F/g. opt. folij. Malva 
folijs crifpis C- B 315. 5. Phyt. 628. 4. The curled 
Leaves and (mail vr hitifh Flowers , cluttering about its 
Stalks, diftinguitti it from others. This has been fo old 
an Inhabitant in Garden s x that its Native place is fcarce 
known. 
Grafs-leaved Crowfoot. Ray H. PI. 587. 1. Ranunculus 
Gramineus Park- parad. 218. 11. Fig. p.' 221. 1. Gra- 
mineus Lobelij Ger. 808. Fig. io- opt. Gramineus mini* 
mus C. B- phyt, 327. 28. Gramineus fl. luteo fimplici Park. 
336. Fig . Ranunculus 9. Jon ft- 953. mont. folijs Gra - 
mineo C. B. 180. v. Pumilus folijs LB. 3. p. 
850. Fig. Minimus Gramineis folijs Chabr. 470. Ic. 4. 
This has long 6]ueifh graffey Leaves, with a (ingle yellow 
Flower and ftringey Root , by which its known from the 
other narrower leaved Crowfeet. Grows in Meadow’s a- 
bout Montpelier , Narbone, and Provence. It Flowers in 
our Gardens in April and May. 
Dr. Lovell’s Venus Looking-glafs. Speculum Vetttrk 
fl. amplifilmo Thracicum. Ray H. PL 742: 2. The Leaves 
are broad and long like our great Stitchwort % and thofe 
about the Flower are hairy edg’d, by which and the 
fpecious largenefs of its Flowers , it differs from the rett. 
We owe the firft Difcovery of this beautiful and orna- 
mental Plant to that Reverend, Curteous and Curious 
Gentleman Dr. John Co veil. Matter of Chrifi Church in 
Cambridge , who in his Travels to Conjlantinople found rhis 
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