98 MALVACE^. (mallow FAJnLY.) 



M. Alcea, L., with the stern-leaves onli/ once 5-parted or cleft, the lobes 

 incised, large flowers like the last, but the fruit smooth, and bractlets of the 

 involucel ovate, has escaped from gardens. (Adv. from Eu.) 



3. CALLIRRHOE, Nutt. 



Calvx either naked or with a .3-leaved involucel at its base. Petals wedge- 

 shaped and truncate (usually red-purple). Styles, etc., as in jMalva. Carpels 

 10-20, straightish, with a short empty beak, separated within from the 1- 

 seeded cell by a narrow projection, indehiscent or partly 2-valved. Radicle 

 pointing downward. (Name drawn from Greek mythology.) 



* Involucel 3-leaved. 



1. C. triangulkta, Gray. Hairy-pubescent; stems nearly erect (2° 

 hio-h) from a fusiform root ; leaves triangular or halberd-shaped, or the lowest 

 rather heart-shaped, coarsely crenate ; the upper incised or 3 - 5-cleft ; flowers 

 panicled, short-pedicelled (purple) ; involucel as long as the 5-cleft 5-nerved 

 calyx ; carpels not rugose. — Dry prairies, Ind. to Minn., and southward. 



2. C. involucrata, Gray. Hirsute or hispid, procumbent ; leaves 

 rounded, 5 - 7-parted or -cleft, the segments incisely lobed : peduncles elon- 

 gated, 1-flowered ; calyx 5-parted, tlie lanceolate 3 - 5-nerA'ed sepals twice as 

 long as the involucel ; petals red or purplish , carpels indehiscent, rugose- 

 reticulated. — Minn, to Tex. 



* * Involucel none; calyx 5-parted ; carpels strongly rugose. 



3. C alcseoides, Gray. Strigose-pubescent ,• stems slender (1° high), 

 erect from a perennial root; lower leaves triangular- lieart-shaped, incised, the 

 upper 5 -7-parted, laciniate, the uppermost divided into linear segments; 

 flowers (rose-color or white) corymbose, on slender peduncles — Barren oak- 

 lands, S. Ky. to Kan. and Neb. 



4. C. digitata, Xutt. Sparsely hirsute or glabrous, erect; leaves few, 

 round-cordate, 5 - 7-parted, the cauline commonly with linear divisions ; pe- 

 duncles subracemose, long, filiform ; flowers red-purple to white. — Kan. to 



Tex. 



4. NAP^A, Cla}^. Glade Mallow 



Calyx naked at the base, 5-toothed. Petals entire. Flowers dlcecious ; the 

 staminate flowers destitute of pistils, with 15-20 anthers; the fertile with a 

 short column of filaments but usually no anthers. Styles 8- 10, stigraatic 

 along the inside. Fruit depressed-globular, separating M'hen ripe into as many 

 kidney-shaped 1-seeded beakless and scarcely dehi.scent carpels as there are 

 styles. Eadicle pointing downward. — A tall roughish perennial herb, with 

 very large 9-11-parted lower leaves, the pointed lobes pinnatifid-cut and 

 toothed, and with small white flowers in panicled clustered corymbs. (Named 

 from vdirr], a glade or dell, or, poetically, a nymph of the glades.) 



1. N. di6ica, L. Stems nearly simple, 5-9° high. — Penn. to Ya., and 

 west to Iowa and Minn. ; rare. July. 



5. MALVASTRUM, Gray. False Mallow. 



Calvx with an involucel of 2 or 3 bractlets, or none. Petals notched at the 

 end or entire. Styles 5 or more ; stigmas capitate. Carpels as in Malva, or 



