222 FLORA OF FEILADELVHIA. 



Philadelphia— N aw J Yard (P.)- 



Camden — Camden, ballast (C.)- Salem — Hancock's Bridge (Wa.). 

 Cape May — Cape May (He.) (Te.), Wildwood (Ja.) (Mac), Avalon 

 (Ke.) (Le.), Ocean City (Pe.), Holly Beach (U. C. S.)- Atlav tic— Yeut- 

 nor (Gi.), Atlantic City, one specimen (Wn.). Ocean — Forked River, 

 Lavalette (Br.), Island Heights, Waretown (C), Seaside Park (Ha.). 

 Monmouth— Avon (Br.). Middlesex— South Amboy (C). 



New Castle — Milligan's Landing, Tatnall; Collins, Commonn. 



6. HIBISCUS L. 

 Tall perennial herbs. 



Leaves white-pubescent beneath ; seeds glabrous or nearly so. 



Pod nearly globular, blunt. 1. H. Moscheutos. 



Pod ovoid, long-pointed. 2. H. oculiroseus. 



Leaves glabrous on both sides; seeds hairy. 3. H. militaris. 



Low, hairy annual of waste places. 4. H. Trionum. 



1. Hibiscus Moscheutos L. Swamp Rose-mallow. M. p. 622. Brackish 



marshes. Late summer. 



2. Hibiscus oculiroseus Britton. Brackish marshes. Late summer. 



3. Hibiscus militaris Cav. Stveating Weed. M. p. 623. River banks. 



Late summer. 

 Lancaster— Yot\ Furnace, Dr. J. B. Brinton (B. C), Peach Bottom 

 (Ca.), island in Susquehanna near Kane's Station (Pr.), Safe Harbor 



(P.). 



4. Hibiscus Trionum L. Bladder Ketmia, Flower-of-an-hour. M. p. 623. 



Waste places. Late summer. 



Hibiscus Syriacus L. Shrubby Althaea, Rose-of -Sharon. M. p. 

 623. Escaped from cultivation. Late summer. 



Order 19. PARIETALES. 



Sepals distinct, mostly persistent. 

 Endosperm little or none. 



Trees or shrubs with alternate leaves and large, solitary axillary 



flowers. Fam. 1. Theaceae. 



Herbs or low shrubs with opposite or verticillate leaves. 

 Leaves punctate or black-dotted, estipulate. 



Fam. 2. Hypericaceae. 

 Leaves stipulate; minute or small marsh or aquatic herbs with 

 axillary flowers. Fam. 3. Elatinaceae. 



Endosperm copious. 



Flowers regular, but the two outer sepals smaller; stamens numer- 

 ous, ovules orthotropous. Fam. 4. Cistaceae. 

 Flowers irregular, some often cleistogamous ; stamens 5; ovules 

 anatropous. Fam. 5. Violaceae. 

 Sepals more or less united into a gamosepalous calyx. 



Fam. 6. Passiftoraceae. 



Family 1. THEACEAE D(^. Tea Family. 



Stuartia Malachodendron L. M. p. 623. In cultivation. Spring. 



Philadelphia — Bartram 's Garden. 

 GoRDONiA Lasianthus L. Loblolly Bay. M. p. 624. Cultivated. 

 Early summer. 



