The Marfli Hibifcus is a native of North-America, and 

 feems to have been very early introduced into Europe, being 

 mentioned by Dodonius as a foreign plant cultivated in the 

 gardens of Holland. It does not occur under this name in 

 Michaux's Flora of North-America, but we fufpecl that what 

 he has defcribed, as the Hibiscus mofcheutos of Linnaeus, is 

 the fame plant ; indeed we very much doubt whether both 

 fpecies are not in reality the fame. Be this as it may, we have 

 no doubt but that our plant is the paluflris of Linnaeus, having 

 had an opportunity of comparing it with a fpecimen from 

 Kalm in the Bankfian Herbarium, which however does not 

 appear to differ from the Hibiscus Mofcheutos of the fame 

 collection. In both, the peduncle and petiole appear rather to 

 be united at the bafe than to grow the one out of the other. 



Is a perfectly hardy herbaceous plant, but will rarely 

 flower in our gardens without the aid of artificial heat. 



