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A. crist^ta has mostly triangular or obscurely halberd-shaped and toothed 

 leaves, and purple or rose-colored coroUa 2' in diameter ; lobes of the calyx 

 triangular, taper-pointed. 



9. SID A. (Ancient name, of obscure meaning.) Mostly rather small-flow- 

 ered or weedy herbs, with 5-12 styles and carpels : fl. summer and autumn. 



* Peduncles axillary , l-Jlowered : corolla yellow. 



S. Spin6sa. So named from the little pointed projection or tubercle at the 

 base of the ])etiole, Init which can hardly be called a spine ; stems much branched, 

 10' -20' higii; leaves lance-ovate, serrate, minutely soft-downy; peduncles very 

 short ; flower very small ; pod ovate, of 5 carpels, each splitting at top into 2 

 points. A common weed S. of New York. Q) 



S. rhombifblia. But the leaves are hardly rhombic, usually lance-oblong, 

 short-petioled, serrate, pale and whitish downy beneath; stems l°-3° high, 

 much branched; peduncles rather long; flower small; fruit of 10 or 12 one- 

 pointed carpels. A weed only S. (i) 



S. SUiottii. Nearly smooth, l°-4° high; leaves linear or lanceolate, 

 serrate, short-petioled; flower 1' broad, on a short peduncle; fruit of 10-12 

 nearly blunt carpels. Woodlands S. 21 



* Peduncles bearing a corymb of several ivhite flowers from the upper axils. 



S. Napaea. Smooth; stem simple, 4' -7' high; leaves rounded, 5-cleft, the 

 lobes toothed and taper-pointed ; corolla about 1' broad; styles and cells of the 

 pod 10. Wild in S. Penn. and Virg. Cult, in old gardens. ^ 



10. ABUTILON, INDIAN MALLOW. (Origin of name obscure.) 

 Resembles Sida, but cells more than one-seeded ; flowers usually lai'ger. 



A. Avicennse, Velvet-Leaf. Cult, soil and old gardens, 3° - 5° high ; 

 leaves rourkdish heart-shaped, taper-pointed, soft-velvety ; peduncles shorter than 

 petiole, 1-3-flowered; corolla orange-yellow; fruit of 12-15 united hairy 

 carpels with spreading beaks. Fl. autumn. ® 



A. striatum, Striped Abutilox. Cult, in greenhouses, &c. from Bra- 

 zil ; a tall slirub, very smooth, with rounded heart-shaped 3-lobed leaves, the 

 lobes very taper-pointed, and pretty large solitary flowers hanging on a very 

 long and slender peduncle ; corolla not spreading open, orange-colored, with 

 deeper or bi'ownish veining or stripes. 



11. MODIOLA. (The shape of the depressed fruit likened to the Roman 

 measure modiolus.) Procumbent or spreading, small-flowered, weedy plants. 

 M. multiflda. Virginia and S., in low grounds ; leaves 3 - 7-cleft and 



cut, or the earlier ones rounded and undivided ; flowers red, ^' broad ; fruit 

 hairy at the top. ® 21 



12. MALVAVISCUS. (Name composed of Malva, Mallow, and viscus, 

 birdlime, frt)m the glutinous ijui]) of the berry-like fniit.) Shrubby plants, 

 with showy scarlet flowers, of peculiar appearance, the ])etals not ex])anding, 

 but remaining convolute around the lower part of the slender projecting and 

 soon twisted c(jlumn, held together as it were by a little side-lobe near the 

 base of the inner edge. 



M. arb6reus, the common West India species, citlt. in some hot-houses, 

 has heart-sliapcd leaves longer than broad, and yellowish fruit. 



M. Drummondii, oif' Texas, if housed in winter flowers all summer in 

 open ground, is soi't-downy, with more rounded and somewhat 3-lobed leaves, 

 and scarlet fruit. 



13. KOSTELETZSKYA. ( Named for a Bohemian botanist, Kostektzshj. ) 

 Like lliliiscus, only the cells of ovary and fruit 1-seeded. Fl. summer. 



K. Virginica, Virginian K. In and near salt marshes, from New York 

 and New Jersey S. : roughish-hairy, 2° -5° high; leaves heart-shaped or mostly 

 3-lo])ed, often halberd-shaped ; flowers somewhat racemed or jianicled, roso- 

 purple, l'-2' broad. % 



