68 MALVACEAE. (MALLOW FAMILY.) 



1. A. AviCENNvE, Gaertn. (VELVET-LEAF.) Tall (4 high) ; leaves round- 

 ish-heart-shnped, taper-pointed, velvety ; peduncles shorter than the leaf-stalks ; 

 corolla yellow; pods 12-15, hairy, beaked. Waste places, escaped from 

 gardens. (Adv. from India.) 



7. MOI>iOL,A, Mcench. MODI OLA. 



Calyx with a 3-leaved involuccl. Petals obovate. Stamens 10-20. Stig- 

 mas capitate. Carpels 14-20, kidney-shaped, pointed and at length 2-valved 

 at the top ; the cavity divided into two by a cross partition, with a single seed 

 in each cell. Humble, procumbent or creeping annuals or biennials, with cut 

 leaves and small purplish flowers solitary in the axils. (Name from modiolus, 

 the broad and depressed fruit of combined carpels resembling in shape the Ro 

 man measure of that name.) 



1. M. multifida, Moench. Hairy; leaves 3-5-cleft and incised; sta 

 mens 15-20 ; fruit hispid at the top. Low grounds, Virginia and southward. 



8. KOSTEL.ETZKYA, Presl. KOSTELETZKTA. 



Pod depressed, with a single seed in each cell. Otherwise as Hibiscus 

 (Named after Kosteletzky, a Bohemian botanist.) 



1. K. Virginica, Presl. Roughish-hairy (2 -4 high); leaves hal- 

 berd-shaped and heart-shaped; the lower 3-lobed. U (Hibiscus Virginicus, L.) 

 Marshes on the coast, Long Island, New Jersey, and southward. Aug. 

 Corolla 2 wide, rose-color. Column slender. 



9. HIBISCUS, L. ROSE-MALLOW. 



Calyx involu collate at the base by a row of numerous bractlets, persistent, 5- 

 clcft. Column of stamens long, bearing anthers for much of its length. Styles 

 united : stigmas 5, capitate. Fruit a 5-celled pod, opening into 5 valves which 

 bear the partition on their middle (loculicidal). Seeds several or many in each 

 cell. Herbs or shrubs, usually with large and showy flowers. (An old Greek 

 and Latin name of unknown meaning.) 



1. If. CTosclieiltoS, L. ( SWAMP ROSE-MALLOW.) Leaves ovate, 

 pointed, toothed, the lower 3-lobed, whitened underneath with a fine soft down ; 

 the 1 -flowered peduncles often united at the base with the petioles ; calyx not in- 

 Jlotid; seeds smooth. 1J. Borders of marshes along and near the coast, and 

 banks of large, rivers. Salt springs, New York to Illinois. Aug., Sept. Plant 

 stout, 5 high. Corolla 5' in diameter, pale rose-purple, or white with a crim- 

 son eye, showy. 



2. IT. militaris, Cav. (HALBERD-LEAVED MALLOW.) Smooth through- 

 out ; lower leaves ovate-heart-shaped, toothed, 3-lobed ; upper li-tuvs halberd-form, 

 the short lateral lobes spreading at the base, the middle one prolonged and taper- 

 pointed : peduncles slender; fruiting calyx inflated; seeds hairy. 1J. River 

 oanks, Penn. to 111., and southward. Aug. More slender and smaller-flow 

 ered than tho last: corolla pale rose-color. 



