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MALVACEAE. (MALLOW FAMILY.) 
versely heart-shaped, thrice the length of the calyx (rose-purple). 1J. 
— Waste places, escaped from gardens, partially naturalized. 
3. UI. trianglllata, Leavenworth. Roughish-hairy; stems 
nearly erect; leaves deltoid-triangular , crenate , pointed , the lowest 
mostly heart-shaped at the base, the upper variously 3 - 5-lobed or 
cut; flowers numerous in a loose terminal panicle, on short pedicels; 
petals wedge-obovate (purple); involucel as long as the downy (not 
bristly) short calyx. 1J. (Nuttallia cordifolia, JYutt. N. cordata, 
Lindl. Malva Houghtonii, Torr. Gr .)—Dry prairies, &c., from 
Wisconsin southward. July. — Stems 2? high : flowers broad. 
M. crispa, the Curled Mallow, and M. moschAta, the Musk 
Mallow, are occasionally spontaneous around gardens. 
5. ALTHEA, L. Marsh Mallow. 
Calyx surrounded by a 6-7-cleft involucel. Otherwise as in 
Malva. (Name from oX&o, to cure.) 
1- A* Officinalis, L. (Common Marsh Mallow.) Stem 
68 ov f te * or sightly heart-shaped, toothed, sometimes 
o ec, c othed with velvety down ; peduncles axillary, many-flower- 
e , much shorter than the leaves, lj. — Salt marshes, naturalized in 
j W E "§ land and New York. Aug., Sept. — Flowers pale rose- 
de °GuimauL aboundin S in mucilage, the basis of the Pates 
A. rosea, and A. ficif6lia, are the garden Hollyhocks. 
HIBISCUS, L. Hibiscus. 
Calyx involucellate at the base by a row of numerous braetlets 
1 ^ ^ Uni i ed ; st *£ mas 5, capitate. Anther-bearing column pro 
onge . Fruit a 5-celled many - few-seeded pod, opening into 1 
a ves w ich bear the partition on their middle (loculicidal) 
s or s rubs, usually with large and showy flowers. (An oh 
Greek and Latin name of unknown meaning) 
§ L Kosteletzkya, Presl. - CeUs 0 f the depressed pod 1 -seeded. 
taoernoint L Rou ghish-hairy; leaves ovate an« 
podbLtlv^u 11 ^^^’ Une( i ua,1 y toothed, the lower 3-lobed 
° o la 2 wide, purple-rose-color. 
§2. Hibiscus proper —Cells of the pod mony-seeded: calyx an 
2 II «... ™ n, J- Uar ' d iacolucel persistent. 
L - ( S " A „p Rosc-Malcow.) Leate 
te, pointed, toothed, the lower 3-lobed, whitened with a fine soj 
