56 MALVACEZ, (MALLOW FAMILY.) 
pels 12-14, hairy, inflated, truncate, 3-seeded, with two long and spreading 
spines. — Waste places chiefly in the middle and upper districts. Introduced. @ 
— Stem 2°-5° high. Leaves 4'—6' wide. Flowers orange-red. 
2. A. Hulseanum, Torr. Stem hispidly pilose ; leaves orbicular-ovate, 
abruptly acuminate, velvety beneath with a whitish pubescence, roughish-tomen- 
tose above, crenate-dentate ; peduncles axillary in the upper leaves, several- 
flowered ; styles about 12. — Tampa Bay, Florida. — Leaves 3 inches or more 
in diameter. Flowers 1j' in diameter, purplish ; pedicels very short. 
3. A. Jaequini, Don. Stem erect (29 —39), branching, smooth or soft- 
downy ; leaves long-petioled, cordate or oblong-cordate, acuminate, unequally 
crenate, velvety on both surfaces and hoary beneath, or roughish above; pedun- 
cles solitary in the upper axils, 1-flowered, about the length of the petioles, or the 
upper ones longer; lobes of the calyx ovate or oblong, shorter than the yellow 
petals ; carpels 8 —10, rigid, hairy, longer than the calyx, acute or beaked, 3-seeded. 
(A. peraffine, Shuttl. Lavatera Americana, L. Sida abutiloides, Jacg. S. lig- 
nosa, Cav.) — South Florida. — Flowers 9'' — 12" wide. 
4. A. crispum, Gray.  Hoary-tomentose; stem sparingly branched ; 
Jeaves round-cordate, acuminate, finely crenate ; peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, 
elongated, filiform, refracted after flowering ; carpels 10, beakless, inflated, cor- 
rugated, hispid, 2-seeded. — Key West. — Stem slender, 19 —29 high. Leaves 
1/-2/long, the upper ones nearly sessile. Peduncles as long as the leaves. — 
Flowers 4!! — 6" wide, white. pue 
6. MODIOLA, Mench. 
Involucel 3-leaved, persistent. Stamens 10— 20. Ovaries 14 - 20, transversely 
2-celled, each cell l-ovuled. Stigmas capitate. Carpels 2-valved, 2-seeded, sep- 
arating at maturity from each other and from the central axis, each valve tipped 
with a slender spine. — Prostrate herbs, with palmately divided leaves, = small 
axillary flowers. 
1. M. multifida, Mench. Hirsute; stems diffuse; leaves long: petioled, 
cordate-ovate, more or less deeply 5-7 spared ; the divisions lobed and toothed ; 
peduncles longer than the petioles ; carpels hispid. (Malva Caroliniana, Z.) — 
Waste places, Florida to North Carolina and westward. July- October. y — 
Stems 19-29? long. Earliest leaves orbicular, undivided. Petals red, as long 
as the calyx. 
7. PAVONIA, Cay. 
Involucel 5 —15-leaved, persistent. Ovaries 5, l-eelled, 1-ovuled. Stigmas 10, 
capitate. Carpels indehiscent or somewhat 2-valved, naked or armed at the 
apex with three hispid awns, separating at maturity. Embryo incurved. Rad- 
icle inferior. — Chiefly shrubs, with petioled stipulate leaves, and solitary flow- 
ers on axillary peduncles. 
— P. Lecontei, Torr. & Gray. Stem “el MURUS ighish-pubes- 
cent; leaves ovate or somewhat sagittate, obtusely toothed, densely | 
