424 MALVACEAE. [Von. II. 
1. Kosteletzkya Virginica (L.) A. 
Gray. Virginia Kosteletzkya. 
(Fig. 2433.) 
Hibiscus Virginicus l,. Sp. Pl. 697. 1753. 
cas aa ive Virginica A, Gray, Gen. 2:80. 4, 772. 
1849. 
Perennial, erect, branching, 2°-4° high, some- 
what stellate-pubescent and scabrous. Leaves 
ovate, or hastate, truncate or cordate at the base, 
2/—5/ long, unequally dentate and often 3-lobed 
below, sometimes with an additional lobe or 
two at the middle, acute, not velvety-pubes- 
cent; flowers pink, 1}4’-2'4’ broad, in loose 
terminal leafy panicles; bractlets of the invo- 
oS / lucels 8-9, linear, shorter than the lanceolate 
\ Sas acute calyx-segments; carpels 5, hispid- 
ae pubescent. 
In salt or brackish marshes, southeastern New 
\ York to Florida and Louisiana. A form approach- 
= 2 ing XK. althaeifolia of the Southern States occurs 
5 in eastern Maryland. Aug. 
11. HIBISCUS L. Sp. Pl. 693.1753 
Herbs, shrubs, or in tropical regions even small trees, with dentate or lobed leaves, and 
showy, axillary or paniculate, mostly campanulate flowers. Bractlets of the involucels nu- 
merous, narrow. Calyx 5-cleft or 5-toothed. Column of stamens truncate or 5-toothed at the 
apex, anther-bearing below along much of its length. Ovary 5-celled, the cells 3-several- 
ovuled; style branches 5, stigmatic at the capitate summit. Capsule 5-valved. Seeds reni- 
form. [An ancient name, used by Dioscorides for the Marsh Mallow. ] 
About 180 species, widely distributed in warm and temperate countries. In addition to the 
following, about 14 others occur in the southern and western United States. 
Tall perennial herbs. 
Leaves white-pubescent beneath; seeds glabrous, or nearly so. 
Leaves glabrate, or stellate-hairy above; bractlets not ciliate. 
Leaves soft-hairy above; bractlets ciliate. 
Leaves glabrous on both sides; seeds hairy. 
Low hairy annual of waste places. 
Tall woody shrub, escaped from gardens, 
. H. Moscheutos. 
. Hf. lastocarpus. 
. HH. militaris. 
. H. Trionum. 
. A Syriacus. 
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1. Hibiscus Moschettos L. Swamp Rose-Mallow. Mallow Rose. 
(Fig. 2434.) 
Hibiscus Moscheutos I,. Sp. Pl. 693. 1753- 
Erect, 4°-7° high, forming numerous cane-like 
stems from a perennial root. Leaves ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, 3’-7’ long, cordate or obtuse at the base, 
acute or acuminate at the apex, the lower or some- 
times all lobed at the middle, palmately veined, 
dentate or crenate, densely white stellate-pubescent 
beneath, green and glabrous or slightly stellate 
above; petioles 1/-5’ long; flowers 4’-7’ broad, pink, —}} \ 
or white, often with a crimson centre, clustered on \\ 
stout pedicels at the summits of the stems; peduncles PAY xy 
often adnate to the petioles; bractlets linear, not cili- : 
ate, shorter than the calyx; capsule ovoid, 1’ long, (\ 
glabrous or sparingly pubescent; seeds glabrous. IN , 
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In brackish marshes, eastern Massachusetts to Flor- 
ida and Louisiana, and on lake shores and in saline sit- 
uations locally in the interior to western Ontario. Dr. 
Gray concluded that the Azbiscus roseus of southern me 
Europe is identical with our plant. Aug.—Sept. 
