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MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 375
Dwarf-mallow. Angles.
In waJle places and by way-fides near towns and
villages. O . Vir. VIII.
Befides what is imply'd in the fpecific difference,
the leaves are crenated : the peduncles are about
an inch long, bearing generally a fingle flower,
but fometimes two or three : the petals are com-
monly white, fhreaked with red veins : the ieg-
ments of the interior calyx are denticulated ; the
leaves of the exterior are narrow and linear : the
jlyles are thirteen or fourteen, hairy on one fide.
(ylvejiris i, M. caule erefto herbaceo, foliis feptemlobatis acu-
tis, pedunculis petiolifque pilofis. Sp. -pi. <^(>()*
(Ger. em. 930./. i. Moris, hijt. f. v. t. ij. f' S.
Blackivell /. 22)
Common Mallow. Anglis.
In wafte places and by way- fides. $ . Vl-Vlll.
l^he ftalk is a yard high, or more, and branched :
the leaves are ferrated : the flowers grow in cluf-
ters from the al<e of the leaves, one on a pedun-
cle : the petals are widely expanded, and deeply
emarginated, of a purple color, with deeper
veins : the calyces are hairy : the capfuUs from
ten to fifteen.
The whole plant is mucilaginous and emollient •, a
decodion of it, or an infufion of the flowers is
recommended as a^pcdoral, and good for the
flone and gravel, and other complaints in the
urinary paflages j it is Ukewife given in clyfters in