MALVACEAE. 



VOL. II. 



Tall perennial herbs. 



Leaves white-pubescent beneath ; seeds glabrous, or nearly so. 

 Leaves glabrate, or stellate-hairy above ; bractlets not ciliate. 

 Capsule glabrous or nearly so. 



Corolla pink ; capsule short-tipped. 

 Corolla white, with a crimson eye ; capsule beaked. 

 Capsule stellate-pubescent. 

 Leaves soft-hairy above ; bractlets ciliate. 

 Leaves glabrous on both sides ; seeds hairy. 

 Low hairy annual of waste places. 

 Tall woody shrub, escaped from gardens. 



1. H, Moscheutos. 



2. H. oculiroseus. 



3. H. incanus. 



4. H. lasiocarpos. 



5. H. militaris. 



6. H. Trionum. 



7. H. syriacus. 



i. Hibiscus Moscheutos L. Swamp Rose- 

 Mallow. Mallow Rose. Fig. 2869. 



Hibiscus Moscheutos L. Sp. PI. 693. 1753. 

 Hibiscus pahistris L. Sp. PI. 693. 1753. 

 Hibiscus opulifolius Greene, Leaflets 2 : 65. 



Erect, 4-7 high, forming numerous cane-like stems 

 from a perennial root. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceo- 

 late, 3'-7' long, cordate or obtuse at the base, acute or 

 acuminate at the apex, the lower or sometimes all 

 lobed at the middle, palmately veined, dentate or 

 crenate, densely white stellate-pubescent beneath, green 

 and glabrous or slightly stellate above; petioles i'-s' 

 long; flowers 4'~7' broad, pink, clustered on stout 

 pedicels at the summits of the stems ; peduncles often 

 adnate to the petioles; bractlets linear, not ciliate, 

 shorter than the calyx; calyx-lobes ovate; capsule 

 ovoid, i' long, glabrous or sparingly pubescent, ab- 

 ruptly short -pointed or blunt ; seeds glabrous. 



In brackish marshes, eastern Massachusetts to Florida 

 and Louisiana, and on lake shores and in saline situations 

 locally in the interior to western Ontario, Indiana and Mis- 

 souri. Sea-hollyhock. Water- or swamp-mallow. Aug.- 

 Sept. 



2. Hibiscus oculiroseus Britton. Crimson-eye 

 Rose-Mallow. Fig. 2870. 



Hibiscus oculiroseus Britton, Journ. N. Y. Bot. Card. 4 : 

 220. 1903. 



Similar to the preceding species in stems, foliage and 

 pubescence, and about as high, the flowers about as 

 large. Calyx-segments triangular-lanceolate, acute, near- 

 ly twice as long as wide; corolla white with a dark 

 crimson center; capsule ovoid-conic, long-pointed. 



In salt marshes, southeastern New York and New Jersey. 

 A hybrid, with intermediate characters between this and the 

 preceding, occurs on Staten Island, and also appeared in the 

 New York Botanical Garden. Aug.-Sept. 



3. Hibiscus incanus Wendl. Velvety Rose- 

 Mallow. Fig. 2871. 

 Hibiscus incanus Wendl. Bot. Beob. 54. 1 798. 



Perennial, erect, 6 high or less. Leaves ovate or 

 broadly lanceolate, 4'-7' long, acuminate at the apex, 

 obtuse or subcordate at the base, dentate, rarely 

 somewhat lobed, pale and finely velvety beneath, 

 dark green above, long-petioled ; bractlets linear, not 

 ciliate, about half as long as the velvety calyx ; calyx- 

 segments ovate, acute or acuminate ; petals white to 

 pink, blotched at the base, $'-4' long; capsule ovoid, 

 stellate-pubescent, rather shorter than the calyx. 



Marshes, Maryland to Florida and Louisiana. May- 

 Aug. 



