Hibiscus. MALVACE^. 335 



= Bractlets of the involucel filiform or nearly so, mostly 2-forked or dilated at tip, or with 

 one or two lateral lobes : flowers short-peduncled : corolla yellow : calyx mostly hispid or 

 hirsute, its tube 10-ribbed, commonly an oblong gland on the midrib of the lobes : cap- 

 sule strigose-hispid ; seeds glabrous. 



H. furcellatus, Lam. Shrubby, minutely tomentose, cinereous : leaves cordate, commonly 

 augulate or 3-lobed, denticulate : corolla 3 inches long ; calyx and capsule inch or more 

 long. — Diet. iii. 358; Chapm. Fl. ed. 2, 610. — Shores of Indian River, S. Florida, Palmer, 

 Curtiss ; perhaps adventive. (Cuba, S. Am.) 



H. aculeatus, Walt. Herbaceous, 2 to 6 feet high, very rough-hispidulous : leaves green, 

 roundish in outline, lower somewhat cordate or reniforni and angulate or 3-lobed ; upper 

 3-5-cleft or parted into obovate or spatulate or narrower and often laciniate-dentate divi- 

 sions : petals 2 inches long, with dark purple base. — Car. 177 ; Poir. Suppl. iii. 220 ; Torr. 

 &Gray, Fl. i. 236. H. scaber, Michx. Fl. ii. 45; Ell. Sk. ii. 169. —Edges of swamps, S. 

 Carolina to Florida and Louisiana. 



= = Bractlets of involucel entire, slender, numerous : flowers moderately long-peduncled : 

 stems stout, 3 to 8 feet high. 



a. Herbage tomentose or canescent, at least the lower face of the leaves : capsule with walls 

 hairy inside ; seeds glabrous, concentrically lineolate when dry, at full maturity minutely 

 and sparsely papillose. 



H.* lasiocarpos, Cav.^ Stem pubescent : leaves more or less velvety-tomentose both sides, 

 cordate or subcordate, acuminate, creuately dentate, some angulate or slightly 3-lol)ed (4 to 

 6 or larger 8 inches long) ; upper ones often ovate-lanceolate : bractlets more or less ciliate 

 with villous or hirsute hairs : calyx-lobes at maturity prominently 5-7-nerved : corolla white 

 or pale rose-color with crimson or deep purple centre, the petals 3 or 4 inches long : capsule 

 hirsute. — Diss. iii. 159, t. 70, f. 1 (only uppermost leaves figured); Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 

 xxii. 302 (excl. syn. //. grand ijlorus).'^ H. (jrandijlorus, Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 172; Torr. 

 & Gray, Fl. i. 238, in part; Gray, Man. ed. 5, 102 ; not Michx. — Mar.slies, coast of Georgia 

 to Louisiana, thence north to Tennessee, S. Illinois, S. Missouri, and W. Arkansas.^ Pubes- 

 cence soft-velvety : the species westward passing into 



Var. OCcidentalis, Gray, 1. c. 303. Leaves more uniformly cordate : capsule less 

 hirsute but densely pubescent. — H. Moscheutos ? var. occidental! s, Torr. Bot. Wilkes Exped. 

 256. H. Californlciis, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. iv. 292; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 

 87; Wats. ibid. ii. 437.* — California on the Sacramento and San Joaquin; first coll. by 

 Pickering & Brackenridge. (Mex. near Janos, Chihuahua, Thurber.) 



H.* grandiflorus, Michx. Stem soon glabrous : leaves ample, 3-lobed, covered on both 

 surfaces with a close pale tomentum, canescent beneath ; lobes ovate, irregularly crenate or 

 even incisely serrate, acute : bractlets of the involucels finely tomentose but not hispid-ciliate : 

 corolla very large, 5 or 6 inches long. — Fl. ii. 46 ; Ell. Sk. ii. 166 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 238, 

 in part. //. lasiocarpus, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 302, 303, as to syn. II. grandiflorus. — 

 Brackish marshes, Florida, Michaux, Curtiss, Nash, and Georgia flde Michaux, who also 

 extends the range westward to the Mississippi. 



H. Moscheutos, L. Leaves canescent beneath with minute and close down, less so or 

 glabrate and green above, ovate with rounded or subcordate base, acuminate ; some lower 

 ones angulately 3-5-lobed and incisely dentate and uppermost oblong-lanceolate ; base of 

 petiole and peduncle not rarely connate : bractlets and calyx canescent but not hairy ; lobes 

 of the latter nearly nerveless : petals 2 to 4 inches long, light rose-color or white, with 

 crimson-purple base : capsule short-ovoid, glabrous. — Spec. ii. 693 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 

 237 ; Gray, Man. 1. c, & Gen. 111. ii. t. 133. //. Moscheutos, & //. palustris, L. Spec. ii. 693 

 (Cornut. Canad. t. 145; Moris. Hist. ii. sect. 5, t. 19, f. 6) ; Cav. Diss. iii. t. 65; Willd. Spec. 



1 Description and synonymy altered to exclude the next following species, which, as Dr. Small has 

 pointed out (Bull. Torr. Club, xxiii. 127, 128), is with little doubt distinct. 



2 Add Watson, Gard. & For. i. 425. 



3 Also in Hemphill and Moore Counties, Texas, Carleton, fide Holzinger, Contrib. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. i. 203. 



< Add Watson, Gard. & For. i. fig. 68 on p. 426 (without varietal name). 



