Archive image from page 495 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer02bail2 Year: 1900 1351. Virginian Stock—Malcomia maritima. N.'itiiral size. (See p. 969.) MALPIGHIA (Marcello Malpighi, 1628-1693, distin- guished anatomist at Boulogne, who wrote on the anatomy of plants). Malpighiacem. About 2
Archive image from page 495 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer02bail2 Year: 1900 1351. Virginian Stock—Malcomia maritima. N.'itiiral size. (See p. 969.) MALPIGHIA (Marcello Malpighi, 1628-1693, distin- guished anatomist at Boulogne, who wrote on the anatomy of plants). Malpighiacem. About 20 species of small trees or shrubs, mostly natives of tropical America, one of which is the Barbadoes Cherry, M, glabra. The fruit is about the size and shape of a small northern cherry, but inferior in quality. It has an acid taste. It is borne on a shrub, which grows about 6 ft. high and has handsome crimson fls. of a distinct appearance. The fl. is about in. across, and the 5 petals have a claw about as long as the fringed blade. This shrub is a native of the West Indies and is cult, in all the Islands as well as S. Amer. It is also offered in S. Pla. Malpighias have opposite, short-stalked Its., glabrous or tomentose,entire or spiny-toothed: fls. axillary,clus- tered or corymbose, rarely solitary, red, rose or white; calyx 5-parted, 6-10-glandular; stamens 10: ovary 3- celled: styles 3, distinct: drupe 3-stoned, the stones with or without 3-5 crests or wings on the back. glabra, Linn. Barbadoes Chekkt. Lvs. ovate, gla- brous, entire, usually pointed, having a few biscuspi- date hairs which disappear early: umbels 3-5-fld.: ca- lyx 6-8 glandular: stones obtusely 4-angled. 813. W. M. MALUS. See Pyrus. MALVA (old Latin name from Greek matoc/ie; refer- ringto the emollient lvs.). Malv&cea. About 16 species of herbs, widely scattered, 4 of which are cult, in America and have escaped from old gardens, while one, M. rotun- clifolia (Fig. 1352), the common Mallow, is a fami
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