86 MALLOW FAMILY. 



4- +- Stigmas capitate or truncate at the apex of the styles. 



6. MALVASTRUM. Involucel of 2-3 braetlets or 0. Seed ascending. Otherwise as Sida. 



7. SIDA. Involucel none. Fruit separating into 5 or more closed carpels, or each 2- 



valved at the apex ; seed hanging. Mostly rather small-flowered or weedy herbs, 

 with 5-12 styles and carpels. 



* * * Ovaries and cells of the fruit ^-several-seeded. 



8. ABUTILON. Involucel none. Carpels each 3-several-seeded. Flowers mostly large. 



9. MODIOLA. Involucel of 3 bractlets. Carpels each 2-seeded, with a cross-partition 



between the upper and lower seed. 



2. Anthers borne along the outside of the tube of filaments. Ovary and fruit ^-sev- 

 eral-celled ; stigmas capitate. Involucel present. Herbs, shrubs, or trees. 

 * Involucel of several or many bracts. 



10. KOSTELETZKYA. Branches of the style and stigmas 5. Pod 5-celled ; the cells 



single-seeded. 



11. HIBISCUS. Branches of the style or stigmas and cells of the ovary 5. Pod 5-celled, 



loculicidal ; the cells many-seeded. 



* * Involucel of 3 large and heart-shaped leaf -like bracts. 



12. GOSSYPIUM. Styles united into one ; stigmas 3-5, as many as the cells of the pod. 



Seeds numerous, bearing cotton. 



1. MALOPE. (Ancient Greek name for some kind of Mallow.) Herbs, 

 resembling Mallows, cult, from the Mediterranean region; flowers 

 summer. 



M. trifida, Cav. THREE-LOBED M. Smooth, with rounded leaves, the 

 upper ones 3-lobed ; the handsome flowers 2' or more broad, rose-color, 

 veined with purple or rose-red, also a white variety. (D Cult, as M. 



GRANDIFL6RA. 



2. ALTHJBA. (Greek: to cure; used as an emollient.) Tall herbs 

 (the Shrubby Althaea belongs not to this genus, but to Hibiscus), na- 

 tives only of the Old World ; flowers summer and autumn. 



A. officinalis, Linn. MARSH MALLOW. Rather coarse, downy ; leaves 

 ovate, sometimes a little heart-shaped or 3-lobed, with clusters of short- 

 peduncled flowers in their axils; corolla 1' broad, rose-color. The thick 

 root is used for its mucilage, and for making Marsh Mallows. 11 Rarely 

 cult. , but has run wild. 



A. rosea, Cav. HOLLYHOCK. Stem tall and simple, hairy ; leaves 

 rugose, rounded, and heart-shaped, angled, or 5-7-lobed ; large flowers on 

 very short peduncles, forming a long spike ; corolla of all shades of rose, 

 purple, white, )r yellow, single or double, 3'-4' broad. (2) 11 Cult, from 

 the Levant 



3. MALV A, MALLOW. (Latin alteration of Greek : soft or emollient. ) 

 All from Europe or the Orient, but several have run wild in fields and 

 along roadsides ; flowers all summer and autumn. (Lessons, Fig. 346.) 



* Flowers small, white or whitish, not conspicuous or handsome. 



M. rotundifb'.ia, Linn. COMMON M., CHEESES. Weed in cult, grounds ; 

 stems procumbent from a strong deep root ; leaves rounded kidney-shaped, 

 crenate on very long petioles ; peduncles rather slender. @ 11 



M. crispa, Linn. CURLED M. Cult, for foliage and sparingly in waste 

 places ; stem erect (4-6 high), leafy to the top ; leaves rounded 5-7-lobed 

 or angled, very much crisped round the margin : flowers clustered and 

 almost sessile in the axils. 



