I4r;:5 



HIBISCUS* palustris. 

 Marsh Hibiscus. 



MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. MvLVACE-f: Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 33.) 



HIBISCUS. — Supr<), vol. 1 . fol. 29. 



Sect. VI. Abf.lmosciius. Med. malv. p. 45. 



Carpella polysperma. Semina glabra aut in dorso linea subvillosa. 

 Corollse expansse. Involucella foliolis 8-15 integris constantia. D. C. 



§ 2. Caule inermi. 

 H. palustris ; foliis ovatis dcntatis suhlrilobis subtus cano-tomentosis, perli- 



ccllis axillaribus a petiole liberis l-iloris supra medium articulatis. — De 



Cand. prodr. 1. 4'30. 

 H. palustris. Linn. sp. pi. 976. Cav. diss. 3. p. 162. t. 65. f. 2. Willd. 



sp. pi. 3. 808. But. mag. 882. 



Caulis herbaccus, sesquipedalis v. 2-pedalis, dense tomentosus. Folia 

 ovata V. cordato-ovata, triloba, lobo intermedio majore, leviter dentata 

 iitrinrpte mollia siibtiis incana, petiolo limbi circiter longitudine. Flores 

 in fastiginm caulis congesti, maximi, rosei. Invoiucellum calyce brevius, 

 \0-phy Hum, foliolis moUihus linear i-subulatis. Calyx campanulatus, mollis, 

 5-fdus, laciniis oblongis acutis. Petala cuneata, apice undulata, indivisa. 

 Ovarium subrotundum, 5-loculare, polyspermum. 



A perennial plant, native of the swamps of North 

 America, from Canada to Carolina, which it adorns with 

 its fine rosy blossoms. It was one of the first species 

 introduced from the New World ; and yet it is very rarely 

 cidtivated in this country, because it seldom or never 

 flowers in the open border, where, being quite hardy, it 

 is usually placed. This is, we believe, owing to the 

 general lowness of our isothermal temperature. Mr. Col- 

 vill, with whom it has now flowered, informs us, that 



* The 'i'iit(rx.o; of Dioscorides was one of the South of Europe Malvaceous 

 plants ; but it is not certain which. 



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