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handsome, rose-coloured or white, on short peduncles, 

 crowded on the stem and branches in the upper axils. 

 Roadsides near gardens. 



2. MALVAS'TKUM, Gray. FALSE MALLOW. 

 M. eocein'eum, Gray. (PKAIRIE MALLOW.) A low hoary 

 perennial, with rose-pink flowers in spikes or racemes. 

 Leaves 5-parted or pedate. Petals much larger than the 

 Is. N. W. 



3, ABU'TILON, Tourn. INDIAN MALLOW. 



A. Avieen'nse, Gsertn. (VELVET-LEAF.) Stem 2-5 feet 

 high, branching. Leaves velvety, round-cordate, long- 

 pointed. Corolla yellow. Near gardens ; not common. 



4. HIBIS'CITS, L. ROSE-MALLOW. 



1. H. Moseheu'tOS, L. (SWAMP ROSE-MALLOW.) A tall 

 perennial, with very large and showy pink or white flowers, 

 in late summer. Calyx not inflated. Leaves ovate, pointed, 

 toothed ; the lower 3-lobed, all white-downy beneath. S.W. 

 Ontario, in marshes. 



2. H. Trio'num, L. (BLADDER, KETMIA.) A low hairy 

 annual. Calyx inflated in fruit, and 5-winged. Corolla 

 sulphur-yellow, with dark centre. Escaped from gardens. 



ORDER XIX. TILIA'CE^E. (LINDEN FAMILY.) 



Trees with fibrous bark, soft and white wood, and heart- 

 shaped and serrate leaves, with deciduous stipules. Flowers 

 in small cymes hanging on an axillary peduncle, to which 

 is attached a leaf-like bract. Sepals deciduous. The only 

 Canadian genus is 



TILIA, L. BASSWOOD. WHITEWOOD. 



1. T. Ameriea'na, L. (BASSWOOD.) A fine tree, in rich 

 woods. Flowers yellow or cream-coloured, very fragrant. 

 Leaves smooth and green on both sides, obliquely cordate or 

 truncate at the base, sharply serrate. Sepals 5. Petals 5. 

 Fruit a globular nut, 1-celled, 1-2-seeded. 



