5H 



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. //. Mosclieulos. 



2. H. ocnliroseus. 



3. H. iitcanits. 



4. //. lasiocarpos. 



5. //, inililaris. 



6. H. Triontim. 



7. H. syriacus. 



I. Hibiscus Moscheutos L. Swamp Rose- 

 Al allow. Alalluw Rose. Fig. 2869. 



Hibiscus MoschcHlos L. Sp. PI. 693. I753- 

 Hibiscus paluslris L. Sp. PI. 693. 1753. 

 Hibiscus opulifolius Greene, Leaflets 2: 65. 



Erect, 4-/ high, forming numerous cane-Hke stems 

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

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

 acuminate at the ape.x, the lower or sotnetimes 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 caly.x ; calyx-lobes ovate ; capsule 

 ovoid, l' 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 Wemll. \'elvety Rose- 

 Alallow. Fig. 2871. 



Hibiscus iiicanus Wendl. Bot. Beob. 54. 1798. 



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

 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, 3-4' long; capsule ovoid, 

 stellate-pubescent, rather shorter than the calyx. 



Marshes. Maryland to Florida and Louisiana. May- 

 Aug. 



