Malva rotundifolia. D WARF Mal LOW. 
MALVA Lhmai Gen. Ph Monadelphia Polyandria. 
Cal. duplex; exterior triphyllus. JriUi plurimi, monofpermi. 
Paii Syn. Gen, 15. Herb.® semine nudo polysperm®. 
MALVA rctundtfoUa caule proftrato, foliis cordato-orbiculatis obfolete quinquelobis, pedunculis fruflifc- 
ris declinatis. Un. Syfi. Vegetah. p, 520. 
MALVA caule repente, follis cordato orbicularibus, obfolete quinquelobis. Halkr hijl. n. 1070. 
MALVA rotundifolia. Scopoli FI. Carn. n. 858. 
MALVA fylveftris folio rotundo. B. pin. 314. 
MALVA lylveftris pumila. Ger. em. 930. 
MALVA lylveftris minor. Park. 299, Raii Jyn. 251. Small wild Mallow or Dwarf Mallow. 
Hudfon. PL Angl. ed. 2. p, 307. 
Jaighifoot. Flor. Scot. p. 375. 
RADIX annua, in terram alte defcendens, albida. • 
CAULES plures ex una radice, proftrati, dodrantales, : 
etiam pedales et ultra, teretes, pubefcentes, ; 
extus purpurafccntes. 
FOLIA alterna, petiolata, utrinque minutim pubef- 
centia, fcabriufcula, fubrotundo reniformia, 
quinque vel feptemloba; lobis rotundatis, 
margine ferrata, fubtus fubfeptemnervia, ex- 
trema fenlim majora. 
PETIOLI teretes, elongati, pubefcenti-fcabri, fupra 
fulcati. 
STIPULA duae, oppolitre, parviufcul*, lanceolate, 
acutje, ciliatae, pubefcentes. 
FLORES plerumque gemini, pedunculati, axillares, 
pedunculis petiolis brevioribus, filiformibus, 
teretibus, pubefcentibus, fepius inaequalibus. 
CALYX: Perianthium duplex, exterius triphyl- 
lum ; foliolis lineari fubulatis, obtufis ; in- 
terius campanulatum, pubefcenti fcabrum, 
quinquefidum ; laciniis ovato acutis, eredtis, 
carinatis, margine ferratis, fubundulatis. 
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COROLLA alba, venis rubellis pidla, Petala 
quinque, lineari cuneiformia, cbtufa, emar- 
ginata, calyce paulo longiora, erefta fubfef- 
filia. fg. 2. 
STAMINA: Filamenta plurima, monadelpha, co- 
lumna cylindrica, glabra, corolla breviore, 
fuperne breviter libera. 
ANTHERjE parvae, fubrotundae, echinatae, undique 
nutantes, fig. 3. 
PISTILLUM ; Germen orbiculatum, depreflum, in- 
fra receptaculum corollae; Styli plures, 
fubulati, eredti, vix pubefcentes, longitudine 
flaminum ; Stigmata fimplicla. fg. 4. 
SEMINA ut in fylveftri, at minora, fg. 5. 
ROOT annual, ftriking deep into the earth, of a 
whitifti colour. 
: STALKS feveral from one root, laying proflrate on 
: the ground, from nine to twelve inches in 
\ length or more, round, downy, and moft com- 
: monly purplifli. 
LEAVES alternate, ftanding on footftalks, covered 
on both fides with a fine down, flightly 
I rough, of a roundifli, kidney-fliaped form, 
ufually divided into five or feven roundifli 
• lobes, ferrated at the edge, having generally 
on the under fide feven ribs, thofe fartheft 
from the root gradually largeft. 
LEAF-STALKS round, long, downy, with a flight 
roughnefs, grooved on the upper fide. 
STIPULE two, oppofite, Imallilh, lanceolate, point- 
ed, edged with hairs and downy. 
■ FLOWERS generally growing in pairs, connefled to 
; flower ftalks, which' fpring from the alze 
; of the leaves, and which are fliorter than the 
I leaf-flalks, thread fliaped, round, downy, 
I and for the moft part unequal. 
J CALYX ; a double Perianthium, the outer one 
I compofed of three linear tapering leaves, 
^ bluntifli at the point ; the inner one bell- 
I fliaped, downy, with a flight roughnefs, di- 
I vided into five fegments, of an oval pointed 
i fliape, upright, keel’d, the edge ferrated and 
I flightly waved, fg. i, 
I COROLLA white, ftriped with reddifli veins, Petals 
i five, of a narrow wedge fliape, blunt, notch- 
I ed at the extremity, a little longer than the 
% calyx, upright, nearly feifile. fg. 2. 
I STAMINA : Filaments numerous, united into one 
I body, the column cylindrical, fmooth, fliort- 
i er than the corolla, at top fliort and loofe. 
I ANTHERjE fmall, roundifli, prickly, hanging down 
? all around, fg. 3. 
I PISTILLUM : Germen orbicular, flatten’d, placed 
f _below the receptacle of the corolla ; Styles 
I numerous, tapering, upright, fcarcely downy, 
I thelengthof theftamina; Stigmat Afimple.4. 
f SEEDS as in the fylveftris, but fmaller. fg. 5. 
We meet with this fpecies of Mallow on dry Banks, alfo under Pales and Walls in great plenty, it is obvioufly 
diftinguiftied from the common mallow by having a procvunbent ftalk, and fmall white flowers flightly tinged 
with red. 
It continues''to blow from June to September. 
Haller andSooPOLi defcribes the ftalk as creeping, nur plant certainly does not creep. 
