808 MONADELPHIA. POLYANDMA. Malva. 
(A. hirsu'ta. Leaves three-cleft, rough with hairs, smooth on the upper 
surface: peduncles solitary, one-flowered. 
Jacq. Austr. 170. 
Stems spreading, rough with expanding hairs. Calyx, the outer with eight 
segments, inner the length of the blossom, sharp-pointed. Blossom pinky 
white, scolloped. Linn. Root-leaves kidney-shaped. Hal. 
Rough Althyea. This species was first announced to the British Botanist 
by the Rev. Jelinger Symons in his Synopsis, as discovered in a field near 
Cobham, by Mr. Jacob Rayer, in 1792. By the kindness of Mr. W. 
Christy, we have been favoured with specimens gathered on the same 
spot in 1827 by Mr. W. Peete. P. E.) 
MAL'VA. # Calyx double, outer three-leaved : Capsules eight 
or more, whorled, monospermous. 
M. rotundifo'lia. Stems short, prostrate: leaves heart-shaped, cir-« 
cular, plaited, indistinctly five or seven-lobed : fruit-stalks when 
in fruit declining. 
Curt.—FI Dan. 721— (E. Bot. 1092. E.)— Fuchs. 508 —J. B. ii. 549. 2— 
Trag. 369— Dod. 653. 2— Lob. Obs. 371. 2, and Ic. i. 651. 1— Ger. Em. 
930. 2 —Lonic. i. 156. 2. 
Stem and branches lying close to the ground. Leaves serrated. Leafstalks 
very long. Leaf-scales in pairs, spear-shaped, fringed. Fruit-stalks 
much shorter than the leaves, with one flower. Blossom purplish, or 
white, with purple veins. Woodw. Petals twice as long as the calyx. 
(Var. 2. M. pusilia. E. Bot. 241. M. rotundifolia (3. Sm. By Hooker and 
Greville scarcely deemed a permanent variety. M. parviflora. Huds. ; 
not of Linn. Petals so diminutive ns scarcely to exceed the calyx. E.) ' 
Mauls. Dwarf Mallow. (Welsh: Hoccys bychan . E.) Road sides, 
among rubbish. A. June—Oct. 
M. sylves'tbis. (Stem erect, herbaceous: leaves five or seven-lobed, 
toothed : outer calyx leafits partly united at the base: leaf and 
flower-stalks hairy. E.) 
Curt. — {E. Bot. 671. E.)— Blackw. 22—Woodv. 54— Fuchs. 509— J. B. 
949. 1 —Ger. 785. 1—11. Ox. v. 17. 8 —Dod. 653. 1 —Lob. Obs. 371. I, and 
Ic. i. 605. 2— Ger. Em. 930.1. 
prescribed in all cases wherein mild mucilaginous substances are useful. (It is fur¬ 
ther recommended in sharp defluxions upon the lungs, hoarseness, dysenteries; and 
likewise in nephritic and calculous disorders; not that it has any peculiar power of 
dissolving or expelling the calculus, but by lubricating and relaxing the vessels, it pro¬ 
cures a more free and easy passage. Of several' officinal preparations from this herb, 
the syrup alone is now retained. Mallows have not only been long celebrated for assuaging 
wounds, but were used to decorate the graves of our ancestors : and so indispensable were 
they deemed to each domicile of the living, that, as a matter of decided ill omen, the 
poet exclaims, 
t( Alas ! when Mallows in the garden die.” E.) 
* (Possibly from yakctcaw , to soften ; in reference to its emollient and relaxing qualities ; 
though Gerard deduces it from the Chaldee name Malluach , as growing among rubbish 
abounding in saltpetre. E.) 
