454 Mox ADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Cristaria. 



Malva coccinea. Fraser. catal. 



On the dry prairies and extensive plains of the Missouri. 

 1/ . Aug. Sept. V. V. ; v. s. in Herb. Lewis. Flowers 

 scarlet. 



Caulis ieres, subpedalis, ramosus, ramis difFusis, tomento- 

 sis, pilis steljatis distuictis obsitis, uti tota planta. Folia 

 alterna, petiohita, palmato-3 — S-partita : laciniis sub- 

 pinnalifido-incisis, lobis sinubusque acutis. Petioli 

 teretes, longitudine folii. Sti/mlce linea/es, erectae, 

 marcescentes. Flares terminales, racemosi, coccinei, 

 , diaraetro poUicari. Calyx 5-fidus, laciniis lanceolatis 



acutis. Petala 5. oblique cuneato-obcordaia, subun- 

 guiculata, ad ungues fasciculato-viUosa, calyce duplo 

 longiora. Fdamentn monadelpha, numerosa, in co- 

 lumnam brevem connata, superne libera, patentia. 

 Styii circiter 10. Fruclus orbiculatus. 



The singularly stellated fasciculi of hair, placed on the 

 \ close tomentum, and its bright scarlet flowers, make 



this plant particularly hiteresting. 



.'554. MALVA. Gen. /j/. 1134. 



ahuliloides. 1 . M. foliis 5-angulari-lobatis tomentosis, pedunculis sub- 

 4-floris bihdis axillaribus, capsulis polyspermis, Willd. 

 sp.pl. 3. p. 780. 

 Icon. Jacfj. hort. schoenlr. 3. t. 293. Cavan. diss. 2. 



t. 16. f. 2. 

 On the sea-coast of Carolina. 1/. June — Aug. v. v. 

 Flowers large, purple. 



caroliniava. 2. M. foliis 5- lobis palmatisve inciso-dentatis, pedunculis 

 petiolo longioribus, petalis integris, fructu villoso, 

 caule prostrato, IVilld. sp. pi. 3. p. 784. 



Icon. Cavan. diss. 2. t. 15. f. 1. Dill. elih. t. 4./. 4. 

 Schkuhr handb. \Q2. 



In fields : Virginia and Carolina. Q. July — Sept. v. v. 

 Flowers dark red. 



rotundifoUa. 3. M. caule prostrato, foliis cordato-orbiculatis obsolete 5- 



lobis, pedunculis fructiferis declinatis. It^illd. sp. pi. 3. 



p. 786. 

 Icon. Fl. dan. 721. Cavan. diss. 1. t. 26. f. 3. Schkuhr 



handb. 1. 

 In cultivated grounds : Pensylvania to Virginia. % . June 



— Sept. V. V. Flowers white, small. 



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