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 Hibiscus Trionum. Bladder Hibiscus. 



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Generic Charatler. 



Col. duplex : exterior polyphyllus. Cap/. 5-Iocularis, poly- 

 fperma. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



HIBISCUS 'Trionum foliis tripartitis incifis, calycibus inflatis. 

 Linn. Syft. Vegetal* ed. 14. Murr. p. 631. Ait. 



Kezv. v. 2. p. 458. 

 TRIONUM Linn. Hort. cliff. 349. 

 ALCEA veficaria. Banh. Pin. 317. 

 ALCEA peregrina five veficaria. Venice Mallow, or Good 



night at noone. Park. Par ad', p. 368. 307./. 2* 



Seeds of the plant here figured are fold in the feed-fhops 

 under the name of Venice Mallow, a name by which it was 

 known in the time of Gerard and Parkinson : Mr- Aitom 

 has changed this for the morefcientific one of Bladder Hibifcus. 

 Authors have alfo diftinguifhed this plant by terms expreffive 

 of the fhort-lived expanfion of its flowers, which Gerard 

 fays open at eight o'clock in the morning and clofe about nine, 

 from whence heobferves, that it might with propriety be called 

 Malva horaria: Miller lengthens the duration of its blowing 

 to a few hours : we have frequently obferved its bloffoms con- 

 tinue fufficiently open to (hew their beauty the greateft part of 

 the day, more efpecially towards the clofe of fummer. 



Few annuals are more admired than this, the infide of the 

 flower is of delicate cream colour, having the centre em- 

 bellifhed with a rich purple velvet, on which its golden an- 

 therae are proudly conipicuous. 



It is fair] to be a native of Italy; a Cape variety, differing 

 in hairinefs and a few other particulars is mentioned by 

 Miller, and confidered by him as a fpecies. 



The leaft poffible trouble attends the raifing of this beautiful 

 annual, as it readily ripens its feeds, which filling on the 

 ground produce plants in abundance the enluing fpring ; to 

 have it flower as long as may be, it will be proper to few 1* 

 at two or three different periods. 



