That very common plant with large Mal- 
flowers, that grows fo plentifully on va * 
each fide of this road, you know, I make 
no doubt, is a fpecies of Mallow. It 
merits your attention as an example of 
the Clafs and Order Monadelphia Poly- 
andria> in which the clafllcal character 
may be diftinclly obferved without the 
help of your glafs. You fee there are 
manyy&zw/W united below in one body 
or brotherhood. The corolla confifts 
of five petals. The calyx is double, 
with but three leaves in the exterior 
range, by which laft circumftance it is 
diftinguimed from the genus Althea. 
We have in this kingdom four fpecies 
of Malva, viz. rotundifolia^ parvifora, 
mofchata and Jy foe/Iris, which laft is the 
plant you have pulled, and which is 
diftinguifhed from the other three, by 
its leaves being waved, in 5 or 7 lobes, 
obtufe, ferrated and their foot-ftalks 
hairy. 
Here is a plant about two feet in Sal- 
height, with a fmall blue flower, from vta * 
the gaping appearance of which, you 
fuppofe it to be of the Clafs Didynamia-, 
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