Species
The genus formerly included a number of additional species now treated in the genus Alcea (Hollyhocks).
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“Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.”
—James Madison (17511836)
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—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
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