PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 549 



Fl. — Late June to early July. Fr. — About August, persisting 



into autumn. 



Middle District. — Squan (Kn), Cliff wood (NB), Farmingdale, New Egypt, 

 Washington Park, Salem Co. on the Delaware (NB). 



Family MALVACE^. Mallows. 

 Key to the Species. 



a. Stamen column, bearing anthers at the summit. 



b. Style branches with stigmas on their inner side, leaves orbicular reni- 

 form, flowers bluish white. [Malva rotundifolia L.]* 



bb. Style branches with stigmas at their apex, flowers yellow. 



c. Leaves ovate or oblong lanceolate, with a small tubercle at the 



base of many of the petioles; 3-6 dm. high. [Sida spinosa]^ 



cc. Leaves cordate, ovate-orbicular densely velvety pubescent, plant 



10-20 dm. high. [Abutildin abutilon L.]t 



aa. Stamen column bearing anthers below the entire or five-toothed summit. 



b. Flowers rose colored, 5 cm. broad. Kosteletzkya virginica, p. 549 



bb. Flowers pink or white, with or wthout a crimson center, 10-20 cm. 



broad. Hibiscus moscheiitos, p. 550 



KOSTELETZKYA Presl. 

 Kosteletzkya virginica (L.). Kosteletzky's Mallow. 



Hibiscus virginica Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 697. 1753 [Virginia]. — Pursh, Fl. Am. 



Sept. IL 456. 1814. 

 Kosteletzkya virginica Knieskern 10. — Willis 14. — Britton 70. — Keller and 



Brown 221. 



Edge of the salt marshes on the coast and bay shore ; com- 

 mon in Cape May County ; local and less comirjon farther north. 



This mallow is a conspicuous feature of the mid-summer 

 coast marshes, its broadly branching stems with their num;erous 

 pink flowers adding quite a touch of color, although not nearly 

 so conspicuous as the following species. Unlike it, the Kostelet:> 

 kya never strays from the vicinity of the salt marshes. 



Fl. — Early August to early Septeml^er. Fr. — Late August 

 to late September. 



Maritime.— Avon (KB), Mantoloking (NY), Lavalette (KB), Forked 

 River. Seaside Park, Island Hts. (NB), Waretown (C), Beach Haven Ter- 

 race (L), Surf City (L), Holgate's (L), Barrel Isl. (L), Manahawkin, 

 Brigantine Beach (NB), Atlantic City, Ventnor (KB), Beesley's Pt. (S), 

 Palermo, Ocean City (S), Avalon, Piermont, Wildwood, Anglesea (S), 



* Dwarf Mallow, a common weed in cultivated and waste ground. 



t Prickly Sida, a weed in waste ground. 



t Velvet-leaf Mallow, a weed in waste ground. 



