68 MALVACK.E. (MALLOW FAMILY.) 



1. A. Avicexioe, Gasrta. (Velvet-Leaf.) Tall (4° high) ; leaves round- 

 ish-heart-shaped, taper-pointed, velvety ; peduncles shorter than the leaf-stalks ; 

 corolla yellow ; pods 12-15, hairy, beaked. ® —Waste places, escaped from 

 gardens. (Adv. from India.) 



7. MODIOLA, Mcench. Modiola. 



Calyx with a 3-leaved involucel. Petals obovate. Stamens 10-20. Stig- 

 mas capitate. Carpels 14-20, kidney-shaped, pointed and at length 2-valved 

 at the top ; the cavity divided into two by a cross partition, with a single seed 

 in each cell. — Humble, procumbent or creeping annuals or biennials, with cut 

 leaves and small purplish flowers solitary in the axils. (Name from modiolus, 

 the broad and depressed fruit of combined carpels resembling in shape the Ro- 

 man measure of that name.) 



1. Iff. multifida, Mcench. Hairy; leaves 3-5-cleft and incised; sta- 

 mens 15-20 ; fruit hispid at the top. — Low grounds, Virginia and southward. 



§. KOSTELETZKYA, Presl. Kosteletzkta. 



Pod depressed, with a single seed in each cell. Otherwise as Hibiscus. 

 (Named after Kostcletzky, a Bohemian botanist.) 



1. K. Yirginica, Presl. Roughish-hairy (2°-4° high); leaves hal- 

 berd-shaped and heart-shaped; the lower 3-lobed. \\. (Hibiscus Virginicus, L.) 

 — Marshes on the coast, Long Island, New Jersey, and southward. Aug. — 

 Corolla 2' wide, rose-color. Column slender. 



9. HIBISCUS, L. Rose-Mallow. 



Calyx involucellate at the base by a row of numerous bractlets, persistent, 5- 

 cleft. Column of stamens long, bearing anthers for much of its length. Styles 

 united : stigmas .5, capitate. Fruit a 5-celled pod, opening into 5 valves which 

 bear the partition on their middle (loculicidal). Seeds several or many in each 

 cell. — Herbs or shrubs, usually with large and showy flowers. (An old Greek 

 and Latin name of unknown meaning.) 



1. II. MosclieiltOS, L. (Swamp Rose-Mallow.) Leaves ovate, 

 pointed, toothed, the lower 3-lobed, whitened underneath with a fine soft down ; 

 the 1 -flowered peduncles often united at the base with the petioles ; calyx not in- 

 flated; seeds smooth, lj. — Borders of marshes along and near the coast, and 

 banks of large rivers. Salt springs, New York to Illinois. Aug., Sept. — Plant 

 stout, 5° high. Corolla 5' in diameter, pale rose-purple, or white with a crim- 

 son eye, showy. 



2. H. militaris, Cav. (Halberd-leaved Mallow.) Smooth through- 

 out ; lower leaves ovate-heart-shaped, toothed, 3-lobed ; upper leaves halberd-form, 

 the short lateral lobes spreading at the base, the middle one prolonged and taper- 

 pointed : peduncles slender; fruiting calyx inflated; seeds hairy. 1J. — River 

 Danks, Penn. to 111., and southward. Aug. --More slender and smaller-flow- 

 ered than the last : corolla pale rose-color. 



