PLANTS OF SOUTHERNl NEW JERSEY. 549 



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

 into autumn. 



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

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



Family MALVACEAE. 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 I/.]* 



bh. 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 spinosal-^ 



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



10-20 dm. high. [Abutilan abut Hon L.]t 



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



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



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



broad. Hibiscus moscheutos, 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 commion farther north. 



This mallow is a conspicuous feature of the mid-summer 

 coast marshes, its broadly branching stems with their numerous 

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

 so conspicuous as the following species. Unlike it, the Kosteletz- 

 kya never strays from, the vicinity of the salt marshes. 



Fl. — Early August to early September. Fr. — Late August 

 to late September. 



Maritime.— Axon (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, Wild wood, 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. 



