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SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVE^. 339
panicle always short, often very short. Sepals not turning up
again at the end. Are the young germens downy '? Petioles of the
panicle rounded above, not channelled as in R. rotundatas Miill. ;
they seem also to be rounded above on the barren stem. R. rotimdatus
appears to have sessile glands, but no setse on the panicle and
falcate prickles there.
Near Plymouth in both Devon and Cornwall,
places, Mr. T. R. Archer Bru/f/s.
in open exposed
Focke thinks it possible that this may be R. rutundatus Miill.,
but that has a remarkably spongy and very much furrowed stem,
or rather it has an angular stem with depressed flat and much
striated sides, forming depressed faces rather than furrows. A
manuscript description by Levent says that R. rotuiidatus has
" tige dressee arquee au summit." Briggs describes the Devonshire
plant as more or less arcuate. I do not find the beautiful compact
cylindrical panicle which we have in Devonshire amongst the
French specimens of R. rotundatiis. Genevier seems to have founded
his species chiefly upon specimens from the late M. B. Levent, of
the MS. description by Levent is valuable.
Eheims ;
Focke distinguishes this from R. incurvatus (Jouru. Bot. 1890,
129) by that having shorter prickles and smaller pink flowers, and
a long narrow panicle. I think that several other diflerences will
be seen by those who compare the plants carefully.
I think that this is probably the same as a plant gathered by
Syme at Brodick, in Arran, in Sept., 1872, and called R. incurvatus
by Baker ; and also found by me near Milford, Pembrokeshire. I
cannot identify this plant with any specimen in the Herb. Genevier,
or described in his Monographie. Its very near ally, R. incurvatiis,
is not found near Plymouth. Is Mr. Briggs' plant from Ermington,
Devon (August 8th, 1878),—not named, but said to "have some
resemblance to R. adscitics"—the same? Mr. Briggs is now well
acquainted with the proposed R. Diimnoniensis, and agrees with me
in distinguishing it.
SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF HALVEjE.
By Edmund G. Baker, F.L.S.
(Continued from p. 243.)
Malva L.
Sect. 2. Ftiscicidata DC. Prod. i. 432.—Bracteolre 3. Flores in
axilla foliorum cymoso-fasciculati aut glomerati. Folia lobata.
* Bracteulcc ovatcc v. ublonr/a.
5. Malva sylvestris L. ; DC. Prod. i. 132; Rchb. Ic. Fl.
Germ. v. t. 1G8; Kng. Bot. ed. 3, t. 281. M. vnhjarU Ten. Syll.
p. 336. M. recta Opiz, fide Nyman, Consp. p. 129. M. tomentcUa
Presl, Fl. Sic. i. p. 174. M. circinmttu Viv. Fl. Cors. Prod. App.
p. G.—Caule erecto hirto, foliis cordato-orbicularibns 5-7-lobatis,
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