Genus 3. 



MALLOW FAMILY. 



517 



2. Callirhoe digitata Xutt. Fringed 

 Poppy- -Mallow. Fig. 2854. 



Callirhoe digitata Nutt. Journ. Acad. Pliila. 2 : 

 181. 1821. 



Nuttallia digitata Bart. Flora N. A. 2 : 74. />/. 



6>. 1&22. 



Similar to the preceding species, sparsely 

 pubescent or glabrous. Divisions of the 

 stem-leaves longer, narrowly linear, some- 

 times quite entire and 4-5' long, some- 

 times deeply incised ; basal leaves sometimes 

 cordate-triangular, crenate, lobed or di- 

 vided ; involucels none ; flowers long-pedun- 

 cled, li'-a' broad, reddish-purple or lighter ; 

 petals beautifully iimbriate ; calyx-lobes tri- 

 angular to lanceolate, acuminate ; carpels 

 strongly rugose-reticulate, scarcely pubes- 

 cent. 



In dry soil. Illinois and Missouri to Kansas 

 and Texas, .^pril-july. 



3. Callirhoe triangulata (Leavenw.) 



A. Gray. Clustered Poppy-M allow 



Fig- 2855. 



Malva triangulata Leavenw. Am. Journ. Sci. 

 7: 62. 1824. 



Callirhoe triangulata A. Gray. 

 Acad. (II.) 4: 16. 1848. 



Mem. \m. 



Perennial, erect or ascending from a 

 deep root, ij-2l high, branched above, 

 stellate-pubescent with short hairs. Leaves 

 triangular-hastate, the lower long-petioled, 

 crenate or slightlj' lobed, acute or obtusish. 

 2'-3' long, the upper short-petioled or 

 nearly sessile, smaller, 3-5-cleft or divided, 

 the lobes narrow, dentate or crenate; flow- 

 ers in terminal panicled clusters, i'-2' 

 broad, short -pedicelled. deep purple: in- 

 volucel of 3 linear or spatulate bractlets, 

 nearly as long as the 5-lobed calyx; carpels 

 numerous, hairv, not rugose, short-beaked. 



Prairies. Indiana to Minnesota. North Caro- 

 lina. Missouri and Texas. June-.\ug. 



Callirhoe Bushii Fernald. of the Ozark Mountains. Missouri, has palmatifid leaves similar to 

 those of the following species, but with broader segments: it is described as erect, and its bractlets 

 as ovate, but a specimen examined has an ascending stem and linear bractlets. 



