52 MALVACEX. (MALLOW FAMILY.) 
* * Annuals: flowers small, crowned, expanding at night. 
8. S. Antirrhina, L. Stem slender, smoothish, clammy below the upper 
joints ; leaves linear, acute, sessile, the lowest lanceolate, narrowed into a petiole ; 
flowers panicled; calyx smooth; petals obcordate, rose-colored. — Dry old 
fields, Florida and northward. May and June. — Stems 6’- 2° high, simple or 
branched. Flowers minute. 
9. S. quinquevulnera, L. Hairy; stem branching; leaves spatulate, 
the upper ones linear; flowers in 1-sided racemes; calyx hairy; petals rounded, 
entire, pink or crimson with a paler border, — Near Charleston. Naturalized. 
— Stem 1° high. 
15. SAPONARIA, L. Soarworr. 
Calyx tubular, terete, 5-toothed. Petals long-clawed. Stamens 10. Styles 
2. Capsule sessile or short-stiped, 1-celled, or 2-celled at the base, 4-toothed at 
the apex. — Cymes dense-flowered. 
1. S. officinalis, L. Perennial; stems stout, erect, smooth; leaves ovate, 
connate, strongly 3-ribbed; petals crowned, white or rose-color, mostly double. 
— Waste places. Naturalized.— Stems 1°-2° high. 
16. AGROSTEMMA, L. Corn-Cocxtez. 
Calyx tubular, with 5 elongated linear deciduous lobes. Petals 5, entire, 
crownless. Stamens 10. Styles 5. Capsule 1-celled, 5-toothed. — Annual or 
biennial pubescent herbs, with linear leayes, and showy purple flowers on elon- 
gated peduncles, 
1 A. Githago, ‘L. Plant (1°-2° high) whitened with leng appressed 
hairs; stem forking; petals obovate, emarginate, shorter than the lobes of the 
calyx. — Grain fields. Introduced. June and July. @ — Peduncles 4'—6' 
long. Flowers 1’ wide, 
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Orper 22. MALYACEJE. (Marnow FAMILY.) 
Mucilaginous herbs or shrubs, with palmately veined alternate stipulate 
leaves, and regular monadelphous flowers on jointed peduncles. — Sepals 
5, united at the base, valvate in the bud, persistent, often with a calyx- 
like involucel. Petals 5, convolute in the bud. Stamens numerous, united 
into a column which is continuous with the claws of the petals: anthers 
1-celled, opening transversely, Ovaries united into a ring, or forming a 
several-celled capsule. Styles separate or united. Seeds kidney-shaped. 
Albumen scarce or none. Embryo large, curved, with leafy Sediiaed 
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