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WEEDS OF THE FARM AND GARDEN 



tough fibrous bark and stems ; leaves alternate with small 

 stipules ; flowers regular and generally perfect ; sepals five, 

 usually more or less united; petals five, hypogynous; 

 stamens numerous, monadelphous, several-celled; pistils 

 several; styles united, projecting beyond the stamens 

 above; ovary several-celled; seeds nearly exalbuminous ; 



embryo curved. An order 

 of about 800 species of 

 wide distribution and of 

 economic importance. 

 The cotton plant has sev- 

 eral species, the most im- 

 portant in the United 

 States being Gossypium 

 herbaceum, which is culti- 

 vated for its fiber and 

 seed. 



Butter Print, Velvet- 

 leaf or Indian Mallow 

 (A b u t i I o n Theophrasti, 

 Medic.). An annual 

 stout, herb, from two to 

 four feet high ; densely 



Fig. 8. Butter print (Abutilon velvet ^ Pubescent leaves 

 Theophrasti). with long petioles, heart- 



shaped or ovate orbicular, 



pointed, velvety; toothed or nearly entire flowers, small, 

 yellow; fruit in the shape of an old-fashioned butter print 

 with twelve to fifteen seeds, opening at the apex, each 

 carpel beaked by a slender awn ; stem tough, fibrous. 

 Common in the middle and eastern states, but less fre- 

 quent in the North. Native to Asia. 



False Mallow ( M alvastrum coccineum, (Pursh) Gray) 

 A low, hairy perennial herb, with dense, silvery, stellate 

 pubescence ; lower leaves pedately three to five-parted ; 

 flowers small, red, in dense short racemes, usually with- 



