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MALVA MOSCHATA. 
NAT. CLASS,-DICOTYLEDONES ; ORDER,-MALVACEÆ. ART. CLASS,- 
MONADELPHIA ; ORDER,—POLYANDRIA. 
This plant has a tough, somewhat woody root, and 
an upright partially branched stem. The root leaves 
hâve long pétioles, with rounded limbs, which are eut 
into tbree to five lobes, and tbese are fartlier lobed and 
eut. The stem leaves are much more deeply lobed 
and eut than the root leaves,, so that their lobes appear 
to be pinnatifid with strap-shaped segments. The whole 
herbage is more or less hairy. The flowers are rose- 
coloured, or occasionally white, on long axillary 
pedicels crowded towards the summit of the stem and 
branches. The calyx consists of two whorls, the outer- 
most composed of three acute sepals, the innermost 
monosepalous and five toothed. The corolla has five 
wedge-shaped petals, jagged at the end. There are 
