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Lavatera Arborea, the Tree Mallow

Source:

• Baxter, William. (1835.) "British Phaenogamous Botany, or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of British Flowering Plants, vol. II." Self-published: Oxford. Archive via Google.

Key to the numbered plant parts: "Fig. 1. Outer Calyx or Involucrum. — Fig. 2. Outer and Inner Calyx with Stamens and Pistils. — Fig. 3. Cylindrical Tube formed by the union of the numerous filaments. — Fig. 4. Germen, Style, and Stigmas. — Fig. 5. Outer and inner Calyx, and Germen. — Fig. 6. A whorl of Capsules. — Fig. 7. A Seed."

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