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* * Flowers larger, more or less showy, l'-2' in. diameter ; the purple, 

 rose-color, or sometimes white petals much exceeding the calyx; stem 

 erect. 



M. sylvestris, Linn. HIGH M. Stem 2-3 high, rough-hairy, branch- 

 ing, with rather sharply 5-7-lobed leaves and purple-rose-colored flowers ; 

 fruit wrinkled-veiny. (2) 2/ Gardens and roadsides. Var. Mauritiana, 

 sometimes called TREE MALLOW. Cult. ; taller, smoother, with obtusely- 

 lobed leaves. 



M. Alcea, Linn. 2-4 high, hairy ; stem leaves parted almost to the 

 base into 3-5 divisions, which are again 3-5-cleft or cut-toothed ; corolla 

 deep rose-color, l'-2' broad ; calyx densely stellate-pubescent ; fruit 

 glabrous, minutely wrinkled- veiny. 11 Gardens, and escaped. 



M. moschdta, Linn. MUSK. M. l-2 high, rather hairy ; leaves about 

 thrice parted or cut into slender linear lobes ; corolla !' broad, rose-color 

 or white ; calyx with simple hairs ; fruit downy, not wrinkled. Gardens, 

 and escaped to roadsides. 



4. CALLIRRHOE. (A Greek mythological name.) Flowers all summer. 



# Hoot thick, fusiform or napiform, farinaceous. 1}. {some (2)?) 



+- Calyx 5-lobed to middle; involucel Z-leaved; short peduncles umbel- 

 lately few-several-flowered ; stipules small ; carpels plain. 



C. triangulata, Gray. Stems erect, 2 high ; leaves triangular, hal- 

 berd-shaped, or the lowest heart-shaped, the upper cut-lobed or 3-5-cleft ; 

 corolla !' or less in diameter. Dry prairies, Minn, to Ind. and S. 



M- - Calyx ^-parted; involucel 3-leaved; peduncles long, \-flowered; 

 stipules conspicuous, ovate; carpels wrinkled. 



C. involucrata, Gray. Stems spreading on the ground, l-3 long ; 

 leaves rounded, 5-parted or cleft and cut-lobed ; corolla 2' or more broad. 

 Wild, Minn, to Tex. ; cult, for ornament. 



4_ ^_ 4_ Calyx 5-parted; involucel (or l-3-leaved in the second"), and 

 stipules small ; carpels rugose or wrinkled. 



C. alcaeoldes, Gray. Stems 1 high ; lower leaves triangular-heart- 

 shaped, upper 5-7-parted or divided into linear segments ; flowers co- 

 rymbose. Ky. and Tenn., W. 



C. Papaver, Gray. Stems short, ascending, few-leaved ; leaves 3-5- 

 parted with lance-linear divisions, or the lowest rather heart-shaped and 

 cleft into oblong lobes ; flowers solitary ; peduncles very long (often 1). 

 Ga. to Tex., and sparingly cult. 



C. digit ata, Nutt. 1 high ; leaves mostly from the root, 5-7-parted 

 into long, linear, sometimes 2-3-cleft divisions ; flowers solitary on long 

 and slender peduncles ; petals fringe-toothed at the end. Wild Kans. to 



Tex 



* * Hoot slender or tapering ; involucel ; carpels even. 



C. peda l a, Gray. Stern erect, l-5 high, leafy ; leaves rounded, 

 3-7-1 obed or parted, and the wedge-shaped divisions cleft or cut ; pedun- 

 cles slender, longer than the leaves ; petals minutely eroded at the end. 

 Texas ; not rare cult. 



5. NAP^IA, GLADE MALLOW. (Greek: glade or nymph of the 

 groves.) 



N. di6ica, Linn. A rather coarse, roughish herb ; stem 4-7 high ; 

 leaves 9-1 1-parted and their lobes cut and toothed, the lowest often 1 in 

 diameter ; flowers small, in panicked corymbs, in summer, Penn., Va. T 

 and W, to Iowa, 



