GENUS 3. 



MALLOW FAMILY. 



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2. Callirhoe digitata Xutt. Fringed 

 Poppy-Mallow. Fig. 2854. 



Callirhoe digitata Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 2 : 

 181. 1821. 



Nuttallia digitata Bart. Flora N. A. 2 : 74. pi. 

 62. 1822. 



Similar to the preceding species, sparsely 

 pubescent or glabrous. Divisions of the 

 stem-leaves longer, narrowly linear, some- 

 times quite entire and 4'-$' long, some- 

 times deeply incised; basal leaves sometimes 

 cordate-triangular, crenate, lobed or di- 

 vided ; involucels none ; flowers long-pedun- 

 cled, 1 1 '-2' broad, reddish-purple or lighter ; 

 petals beautifully fimbriate; calyx-lobes tri- 

 angular to lanceolate, acuminate ; carpels 

 strongly rugose-reticulate, scarcely pubes- 

 cent. 



In dry soil, Illinois and Missouri to Kansas 

 and Texas. April-July. 



3. Callirhoe triangulata (Leavenw.) 



A. Gray. Clustered Poppy-Mallow 



Fig- 2855. 



Malva triangulata Leavenw. Am. Journ. ScL 

 T. 62. 1824. 



Callirhoe triangulata A. Gray, Mem. Am. 

 Acad. (II.) 4:16. 1848. 



Perennial, erect or ascending from a 

 deep root, \\-2\ high, branched above, 

 stellate-pubescent with short hairs. Leaves 

 triangular-hastate, the lower long-petioled, 

 crenate or slightly lobed, acute or obtusish, 

 2'-3' long, the upper short-petioled or 

 nearly sessile, smaller, 3~5-cleft or divided, 

 the lobes narrow, dentate or crenate ; flow- 

 ers in terminal panicled clusters, i'-2 

 broad, short -pedicelled, deep purple ; in- 

 volucel of 3 linear or spatulate bractlets, 

 nearly as long as the 5-lobed calyx ; carpels 

 numerous, hairv, not rugose, short-beaked. 



Prairies, Indiana to Minnesota, North Caro- 

 lina, Missouri and Texas. June-Aug. 



Callirhoe Bushii Fernald, of the Ozark Mountains, Missouri, has palmatifid leaves similar to 

 those of the following species, but with broader segments ; it is described as erect, and its bractlets 

 as ovate, but a specimen examined has an ascending stem and linear bractlets. 



