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these two or three years, hath Inn brought unto our 

 knowledge a very beautiful kind of these Dame Violets, 

 having very fair, double, white lloures." These double 

 varieties are very difficult to preserve, consequently 

 rarely to be seen. 



HIBISCUS.— Rose-Mallow. 

 HibiscilS mllitaris. — Halbert-leaved Rose-Mallow. — 

 This is a fine species, growing six to eight feet high, pro- 

 ducing very large 

 white flowers, 

 with a deep-red 

 center. A native 

 of the middle and 

 southern States 

 blooming August 

 and September. 



H. Moscheutos, 

 formerly H. pa- 

 lustris. — Marsh 

 Rose-Mallow. — Is 

 found growing by 

 the margins of 

 streams, and in 

 marshes near the 

 Atlantic coast. It 

 has large pink 

 flowers, about five 

 inches in diame- 

 ter. Numerous 

 stems about five 

 feet higli ; and 

 leaves with a soft down on the underside. It is easily 

 propagated from seeds or divisions of the root, and suc- 



HIBISCUS MOSCHEUTOS. 



