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C. Papaver. Low perennial, with ascending stems, rather hairy ; flowers 

 red-purple, very long-peduncled ; iuvolucel none or small. 



C. involucrata,. Perennial, with root like a turnip ; the hairy stems 

 prostrate ; peduncle shortish ; flower red-purple ; involucre 3-leaved, large. 



4. Malva sylvestris, HIGH MALLOW, is already described, Man. p. 66. 

 M. Mauritiana, TREE MALLOW. Taller than the last, 4 to 6, with 



5-lobed leaves and deep purple flowers, in autumn. 



M. moschata, MUSK MALLOW. Perennial, 2 high ; leaves dissected 

 into linear lobes, faintly musk-scented ; flowers rose-color. 



M. crispa, CURLED MALLOW. Tall annual ; leaves rounded, toothed, 

 much crisped around the edge, with small white flowers in their axils. 



5. Lava'tera trimestris, THREE-MONTH L. Annual, with smoothish, 

 round and heart-shaped leaves, scarcely lobed, and large rose-colored or 

 sometimes white flowers ; the fruit covered by a broad and flat umbrella-like 

 enlargement of the receptacle. Commoner in gardens than 



L. TLmringiaca. Perennial, rather downy ; upper leaves 3-lobed ; 

 petals deeply obcordate, rose-purple, with darker stripes ; a conical projection 

 from the centre of the fruit. 



'3. Althaea rosea, HOLLYHOCK. A familiar tall biennial or annual, with 

 a simple hairy stem, round and cordate angled leaves ; the large flowers (of 

 various colors, single or double) forming a long spike. 



A. ficifolia, FIG-LEAVED HOLLYHOCK, with deeply 7-lobed leaves, is 

 a much rarer species. 



7. Abutilon. Besides the common VELVET-LEAF, Man. p. 67, there is 



A. Striatum, STRIPED A. Cult, in all greenhouses, shrubby, nearly 

 smooth, the thin leaves with 5 taper-pointed lobes ; flowers gracefully hanging 

 on long peduncles ; petals orange, with darker stripes and veins. 



3. Hibiscus, Man. p. 68. Besides No. 3 there described, the following are 

 more or less cultivated for ornament. 



H. Syriacus, TREE HIBISCUS, called SHRUBBY ALTH^A. A hardy 

 shrul), 8 to 14 high, with smooth wedge-ovate and 3-lobed leaves, and short- 

 peduncled flowers, red-purple, white, c., either single or double, in autumn. 



H. Rosa-Sinensis, CHINA ROSE-MALLOW. Shrubby, smooth, with 

 ovate pointed and somewhat toothed leaves, and bright red flowers on slender 

 peduncles ; a green-house plant. 



H. COCCineus, GREAT RED R. A tall herb of the S. States, smooth, 

 with a perennial root ; leaves deeply cleft into 5 long and narrow lobes ; 

 flowers red, 8' to 11' broad, in autumn. 



9. Abelmoschus esculentus, OKRA. An annual, with round-cordate 

 more or less 5-lobed leaves, and greenish-yellow flowers, succeeded by narrow 

 and angled pods, 4 inches long, which when green are very mucilaginous, and 

 are eaten as a garden vegetable or in soups ; common at the South. 



A. Manihot, sometimes cultivated for ornament, has a large and hand- 

 some sulphur-yellow flower, with a dark purple eye, and the leaves 5-parted 

 into long and narrow divisions. 



10. Gossypium herbaceum, COTTON-PLANT. The genus differs from 

 Hibiscus in having an involucel of 3 toothed or incised green leaves, heart- 

 shaped and a little united at the base, and the seeds covered with the long and 

 soft wool which now makes so large a part of human clothing. The Common 

 Cotton is an herb, with broad 3 -5-lobed leaves, and pale yellow corolla with 



