MONAPELPHIA POLYANDRTA. 



166 



3 lines lono:* 



Interior 5-cleft, 



Stamin!" 



illary, solitarj^ Sfipules lanceolate, hairy. Peduncles 2 

 Exterior Calyx setaceous^ nearly as long as the interior, 

 both hairy. Petals about twice as long as the cahx, yellow. 

 fcrons tube and style about as long as tlie calyx. Capsules hispid, collec- 

 ted in a depressed globular head. Seeds 1 in each capsule, compressed, 

 emarginate at base. 



This is the plant which has been referred to by Mr. Nuttall as seen in 

 my herbarium. I have little doubt that it is the plant described as a Ma- 

 lope by Walter, I must however add tiiat a specimen sent to me from 

 Pennsylvania by Dr, Muhlenberg, as the Malva Americana, is unquestion- 

 ably the same plant; it certainly is not the Malva Americana of Wilkle- 

 now although it apparently belongs to that genus, I did not however ex- 

 amine the only living plant I have seen with sufficient care to enable me 

 now to arrange it with any thing like certainty. 



Grows probably near the mountains from Pennsylvania to Carolina. 

 Tlie plant I saw sprung up in a box, where seeds from the central Dis- 

 tricts of Virginia had been pl^inted^ in soil dug from the pastures around 

 Charleston. 



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HIBISCUS. 



Calyx duplex^ ex 



Calyx double^ the 



terior polyphyllus. exterior many leaved. 

 Petala 5. Capsidce Petals 5. Capsules 

 5-IocuIares^ polysper- 5-celled, many seed- 



mag. 



ed. 



M 



OSCHEUTOS. 



H. foliis ovatis, a 



cuminatis, 



serratis 



subtrilobis, sub-5-ner 



? 



vibus 



9 



siibtus incano 



tomentosis ; petiolis 



? 



floriferis 



tomentosis 

 glabris. 



? 



calycibus 

 capsulis 



Leaves ovate, acu- 

 minate, serrate, gene- 

 rally 3.1obed and 5- 

 nerved, hoary and to- 

 mentose underneath 



petioles bearing 



? 



the 



flower J calyx tomen 



tose 



brous. 



? 



capsules 



gla 



Sp. pi. 3. p. 806. Mich. 2. p. 47- Pursh 2 p. 455. Nutt. 2. p. 82. 



^i-oot perennial. Stem as in all the rest of the species, herbaceous or 

 jySVuticose, erect, ^ — 6 feet high, branching, a little rough, and purple. 



