Volume Iv Part 1 (1/2)

The Botanical Magazine.

by William Curtis.

VOL. IV.

Observe the rising Lily's snowy grace, Observe the various vegetable race; They neither toil nor spin, but careless grow, Yet see how warm they blus.h.!.+ how bright they glow!

What regal vestments can with them compare!

What king so s.h.i.+ning, or what queen so fair.

THOMSON.

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LAVATERA TRIMESTRIS. ANNUAL LAVATERA.

_Cla.s.s and Order_.

MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.

_Generic Character._

_Calyx_ duplex: exterior 3-fidus. _Arilli_ plurimi, monospermi.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

LAVATERA _trimestris_ caule scabro herbaceo, foliis glabris, pedunculis unifloris, fructibus...o...b..culo tectis. _Linn. Sp. Pl. 974._ _Hort.

Kew. v. 2. p. 452._

LAVATERA _(althaeaefolia)_ foliis infimis cordato-orbiculatis, caulinis trilobis ac.u.minatis glabris, pedunculis unifloris, caule herbaceo.

_Miller's Gard. Dict. ed. 6. 4to._

MALVA folio vario. _Bauh. Pin. 315._

MALVA Hispanica flore carneo amplo.