86 MALLOW FAMILY. 



+- -t- Stigmas capitate or truncate at the apex of the styles. 



6. MALVASTRUM. Involuool of 'i-S bractlels or 0. Seed asceiuiiiig. Otherwise as SWa 



7. SIDA. Involucel none. Fruit separating into 5 or more closed carpels, or each 2- 



valved at the ai)e.v ; seed hanging. Mostly rather small-tiowered or weedy herbs, 

 with 6-12 styles and cariiels. 



* * » Ovaries and cells of the fruit 2-several-seeded. 



8. ABUTILON. Involucel none. Carpels each 3-several-seeded. Flowers mostly large. 



9. MODIOLA. Involucel of 3 bractlets. Carpels each 2-seeded, with a cross-partition 



between the upper and lower seed. 

 §2. Anthers home along the outside of the tube of filaments. Ovary and fruit Z-sev- 

 eral-celled ; stigmas capitate. Involucel present. Herbs, shrubs, or trees. 

 * Involucel of several or many bracts. 



10. KOSTElETZKYA. Branches of the style and stigmas 5. Pod 5-celled ; the cells 



single-seeded. 



11. HIBISCUS. Branches of the style or stigmas and cells of the ovary 5. Pod 5-celled, 



loculicidal ; the cells many-seeded. 



» * Involucel of'i large and heart-shaped leaf -like bracts. 



12. G08S YPIUM. Styles united into one ; stigmas 3-5, as many a? the cells of the pod. 



Seeds numerous, bearing cotton. 



1. MALOPE. (Ancient Greek name for some kind of Mallow.) Herbs, 

 resembling Mallows, cult, from the Mediterranean region ; flowers 

 summer. 



M. trifida, Cav. Three-lobed M. Smooth, with rounded leaves, the 

 upper ones ;3-lobed ; the har.dsome flowers 2' or more broad, rose-color, 

 veined with purple or rose-red, also a white variety. ® Cult, as M. 

 grandifl6ra. 



2. ALTH.SA. (Greek : to cure ; used as an emollient.) Tall herbs 

 (the Shrubby Althaea belongs not to this genus, but to Hibiscus), na- 

 tives only of the Old World ; flowers summer and autumn. 



A. officinalis, Linn. Maksh Mallow. Rather coarse, downy ; leaves 

 ovate, sometimes a little heart-sliaped or 3-lobed, with clusters of short- 

 peduncled flowers in their axils; corolla 1' broad, rose-color. The thick 

 root is used for its mucilage, and for making Marsh Hallows. 2/ Rarely 

 cult., but has run wild. 



A. rdsea, Cav. Hollyhock. Stem tall and simple, hairy ; leaves 

 rugose, rounded, and heart-shaped, angled, or 5-7-lobed ; large flowers on 

 very short peduncles, forming a long spike ; corolla of all sliades of rose, 

 purple, white, or yellow, single or double, 3 '-4' broad, (g) "U Cult, from 

 the Levant. 



3. MALVA, MALLOW. (Latin alteration of Greek : soft or emollient.) 

 All from Europe or the Orient, but several have run wild in fields and 

 along roadsides ; flowers all summer and autumn. (Lessons, Fig. 340.) 



* Floif-ers small, white or whitish, not conspicuous or handsome. 



M. rotundifbiia, Linn. Common M.. Cheeses. Weed in cult, grounds ; 

 stems procumbent from a strong deep root ; leaves rounded kidney-shaped, 

 croiiate on very long petioles ; peduncles rather slender. (2) 2/ 



IVI. crispa, Linn. Curled M. Cult, for foliage and sparingly in waste 

 places ; stem erect (4°-(j° high), leafy to the top ; leaves rounded 5-7-lobed 

 or angled, very much crisped round the margin ; flowers clustered and 

 almost sessile in the axils, (j) 



