MALVA Linncei Gen. PL Monadelphia Po lyandria.
Cal. duplex : exterior triphyllus. Arilli plurimi monofpermi.
Raii Syn. Gen. 15. Herbas semine nudo po l ysperm y.
MALVA Jylveßris caule ere&o herbaceo, foliis feptemlobatis acutis, pedunculis petiolifque pilofis.
Linncei Syß. Vegetab. p. 520.
MALVA caule ere&o ; folife Iobatis; lobis ferratis, quinis et feptenis. Haller hiß. n. 106g.
MALVA Jylveßris. Scopoli Fl. Carniol. ri. 859.
MALVA Jylveßris folio finuato. C. Bauhin. pin. 314.
MALVA vulgaris. Parkirjon.
MALVA Jylveßris. Gerard. Raii Syn. p. 269, Common Mallow. Hudfion Fl. Angl. p. 268.
RADIX perennis, albida, craflitie digiti, in terram f
alte defcendens, fibris paucis majufculis *
inftru&a, fapore dulci et vifcido prasdita. |
CAULIS plerumque ere&us, pedalis ad tripedalem, |
teres, pilofus, ramofus.
FOLIA petiolis praelongis hirfutis infidentia, quinque |
aut feptemlobata, ad bafin macula purpurea $
fspe notata, fubplicata, crenata, fuperne f
las via, fubtus hirfutula. |f
FLORES ampli, purpurei, axillares, fubumbellati, |
venis faturatioribus pifli. 4
STIPULAE duas ad bafin cujufvis petioli. %
CALYX : Perianthium duplex, perfiftens, hirfutum, %
exterius triphyllum, foliolis lanceolatis, fig. I
1 ; interius femiquinquefidum, majus, laciniis |
' ovato-acutis, fig. 2. %
COROLLA: Pet ala quinque, obcordata, prsmorfa, |
bafi coalita, plana, fig. 3. 5 f
STAMINA: Filamenta plurima in tubum purpu- |
rafcentem coalita,^. 5, fuperne laxa, reflexa: f
A nther y reniformes, albida2, fig. 6, au6i. %
PISTILLUM: Ge rmen orbiculatum: Stylus cylin- ?
draceus, brevis: Stigmata plurima, fetacea, |
rubicunda, longitudine Styli, fig. 7., 8, 9. §
SEMINA plurima reniformia Arillo introrfum de- I
hifcente tefta, fig. 10, 11. $
ROOT perennial and whitifh, the thicknefs o f ones
finger, ftriking deep into the earth, thinly
furnilhed with large fibres, and having a
fweetifh vifcid tafte.
STA LK generally upright, from one to three feet
high, round, hairy, and branched.
LEAVES ftanding on long hairy foot-ftalks, having
five or feven lobes, often marked at bottom
with a purple fpot, fomewhat folded, crenated
or notched at the edges, fmooth above, and
{lightly hairy beneath.
FLOWERS large, purple, growing in a kind of um-
bell in the bofoms of the leaves, painted
with deeper veins of the fame colour.
STIPULAE two at the bottom of each foot-ftalk o f the
leaf.
C A L YX : a double Perianthium continuing, and
hairy ; the outer one compofed o f three
leaves, which are narrow and pointed, fig. 1;
the inner one larger and divided into five
fegments,which are broader and pointed 2.
C O R O L L A : five Petals heart-fhapecJ, a piece of
the apex as if bitten out, uniting at bottom,
and flat, fig. 3.
STAMINA: Filaments numerous, uniting into a
purplifh tube, fig. 5, above unconnected and
turning back: A nther y kidney fliaped,
and wnitilh, fig. 6, magnified.
PISTILLUM: G ermen orbicular: Sty le cylindrical,
and fhort: Stigmata numerous,
thread-fhaped, of a red colour, the length
o f the Styles, fig. 7, 8, 9.
SEEDS numerous, kidney-fhaped, covered with an
Arillus which opens inwardly, fig. 10, 11.
thence it has been ranked by writers on the Materia Medica among the emollients, and confidered as ferviceable
I mall cafes where emollients are proper: but it has more particularly been ufed in difeafes o f the urinary
I panages, where the parts have been either injured by calculous concretions, or inflamed from other caufes ;
I as in the {tone, gravel, bloody urine, ftrangury, gonorrhaea, &c. In cafes of cough, hoarfenefs, roughnefsof
I * I V L CeSrr fpfc n !*as a^° keen recommended. Its ufe however has been much fuperfeded by the Marjhmallow,
K l i p P°“e^es i | S v^ uable qualities in a fuperior degree. The method o f ufing it is by making a decoftion
lo t the leaves or root : or it may be made into a fyrup in the manner o f Marfmallows. In fomentations and
I ciyiters the leaves are alfo not unfrequently ufed.
Mallows were formerly eaten as food by th& Romans; not the fpecies here figured however; but according
0 Haller, the Malva rotundifolia italica fiore amplo of T ournefort was ufed for this purpofe. This
author alfo informs us, that a tree of the Mallow kind is in like ufe with the Egyptians ; and that the Chinefe
mix aned Mallow leaves with their food.
Cattle do not appear to be fond o f i t ; and as it is a ftrong growing plant, it often does much harm in good
cn ground : the:root however, though perennial, is not of the creeping kind, and confequently is eradicated
nout much difficulty. The beft inftrument will be found to be what is called a docking-iron, o f which we
; a! 8lve aJJ account in deferring fome one of the Docks; and the beft time for taking them up is late in the
^hen the herbage being eat down pretty clofe, the leaves of the Mallow are eafily difeerned, and the
r Dage luiiers little from the operation.
wwm nancs.
to the end of Summer. The Anthers before the opening o f the flower,
very pleating fpe&acle, and are figured by G rew, in a magnified ftate, in