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C. Papaver. Low perennial, with ascending stems, rather hairy ; flowers 

 red-purple, very long-peduneled ; iuvolucel none or small. 



C. involucrata. Perennial, with root like a turnip ; the hairy stems 

 prostrate ; peduncle shortish ; flower red-purple ; involucre 3-leaved, large. 



4. Malva sylvestris, High Mallow, is already described, Man. p. 66. 



M. Mauritiana, Tree Mallow. Taller than the last, 4° to 6°, with 

 5-lobed leaves and deep purple Mowers, in autumn. 



M. moschata, Musk Mallow. Perennial, 2° high ; leaves dissected 

 into linear lobes, faintly musk-scented ; flowers rose-color. 



M. crispa, Curled Mallow. Tall annual; leaves rounded, toothed, 

 much crisped around the edge, with small white flowers in their axils. 



5. Lava'tera trimestris, Three-month L. Annual, with smoothish, 

 round and heart-shaped leaves, scarcely lobed, and large rose-colored or 

 sometimes white flowers ; the fruit covered by a broad and ilat umbrella-like 

 enlargement of the receptacle. Commoner in gardens than 



L. Thuringiaca. Perennial, rather downy ; upper leaves 3-lobcd ; 

 petals deeply obcordate, rose-purple, with darker stripes; a conical projection 

 from the centre of the fruit. 



6. Althsea rosea, Hollyhock. A familiar tall biennial or annual, with 

 a simple hairy stem, round and cordate angled leaves ; the large flowers (of 

 various colors, single or double) forming a long spike. 



A. fieifolia, Fig-leaved Hollyhock, with deeply 7-lobcd leaves, is 

 a much rarer species. 



7. Abutilon. Besides the common Velvet-Leaf, Man p. 67, there is 



A. striatum, Striped A. Cult, in all greenhouses, shrubby, nearly 

 smooth, the thin leaves with 5 taper-pointed lobes ; flowers gracefully hanging 

 on long peduncles ; petals orange, with darker stripes and veins. 



8. Hibiscus, Man. p. 68. Besides No. 3 there described, the following are 

 more or less cultivated for ornament. 



H. Syriaeus, Tree Hibiscus, called Shrubby Althaea. A hardv 

 shrub, 8° to 14° high, with smooth wedge-ovate and 3-lobed leaves, and short- 

 peduncled flowers, red-purple, white, &c, either single or double, in autumn. 



H. Rosa-Sinensis, China Rose-Mallow. Shrubby, smooth, with 

 ovate poitited and somewhat toothed leaves, and bright red flowers on slender 

 peduncles ; a green-house plant. 



H. COCCineus, Great Red 11. A tall herb of the S. States, smooth, 

 with a perennial root; leaves deeply cleft into 5 long and narrow lobes; 

 flowers red, S' to 11' broad, in autumn. 



9. Abelmosehus esculentus, Okra. An annual, with round-cordate 

 more or less 5-lobed leaves, and greenish-yellow flowers, succeeded by narrow 

 and angled pods, 4 inches long, which when green are very mucilaginous, and 

 are eaten as a garden vegetable or in soups; common at the South. 



A. MailillOt, sometimes cultivated for ornament, has a large and hand- 

 some sulphur-yellow flower, with a dark purple eye, and the leaves 5-parted 

 into long and narrow divisions. 



10. Gossypium herbaeeum, Cottox-Plant. The genus differs from 

 Hibiscus in having an involucel of 3 toothed or incised green leaves, heart- 

 shaped and a little united at the base, and the seeds covered with the long and 

 soft wool which now makes so large a part of human clothing. The Common 

 Cotton is an herb, with broad 3 -5-lobed leaves, and pale yellow corolla with 



