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H- H- Corolla sprpndinc/, hell -shaped : plant pubescent. 



*->■ Lean's lobed. 



A. Darwini, Hook. Densely velvety-pubescent ; leaves 5-9-ribbed, 

 lower palniately 5-7-lol)ed to the middle ; flowers 1-3 in the axils, dark 

 orange-red with blood-red veins. Brazil. 



•^ -w. Leaves tint lobed. 



A. insigne, Plancli. Young branches and calyx reddish-brown with 

 stellate hairs ; leaves broad, cordate, coarsely serrate, with prominent 

 veins ; flowers in axillary, few-flowered racemes, purplish-crimson with 

 darker veins. New Granada. 



9. MODIOLA. (The shape of the depressed fruit likened to the Roman 

 measure mududiis.) Procumbent or spreading, small-flowered, weedy 



jilants. 



M. multifida, Moench. Va. and S. , in low grounds ; leaves 3-7-cleft 

 and cut, or the earlier ones rounded and undivided ; flowers red, \' broad ; 

 fruit hairy at tlie top. @ 2/ 



10. KOSTELETZKYA. {For Kustelet:^ky, a Bohemian botanist.) 



K. Virginica, Gray. Virginian K. Roughish-haiiy, 2°-5° high ; 

 leaves heart -shaiied or mostly o-lobed, often lialberd-.shaped ; flowers (in 

 summer) somewhat racemed or panicled, rose-purple, 2' broad. Salt 

 marshes, N. Y.. S. 2/ 



11. HIBISCUS. KOSI-: MALLOW. (Ancient name, of obscure 

 origin.) Flowers sliowy, usually large, in summer and autumn. 



* 'fall s/iriibs or ereii trees; exotics. 



H. Synacus. Linn. Sma mhv Altu.k.v. Leaves nearly smooth, wedge- 

 ovate, and ;!-l(ibed ; flowers short-peduncled in the axils, in autumn, about 

 .")' broad, purple, rose-color, white, etc., often double. Levant; common 

 in gardens and grounds. 

 , H. Rosa-Sinensis, Linn. Ciiinksk IL or Husk ok China. Vei-y smooth ; 

 leaves Inighl green, ovate and pointed, somewhat toothed ; flowers on 

 slender jk iluncles, very showy, 4' or i'^' broad, scarlet-red (rarely rose- 

 purple or even white), often <louble. Cult, in con.servatories from China. 



* * Herbs, irith persistent and rci/alar. o-lnbeil cahj.r. and a short pod. 



•1- Wild species, but soiiietiuies cultivated ; t((ll and lanje. 21 



t-i- Eniirely ijlabrons. 



H. coccineiis, Walt. Gkeat Red H. or H. 4°-?'^ high; leaves ,'>- 

 ]>arted or deeply cleft into long, lanceolate and taper-pointed divisions ; 

 bright-red cnrojla (>'-ll' broad; petals narrow below. Wild in swamps 

 lunxr coast, (ia. and Fla. ; cult. 



H. militaris, Cav. HAi.HKisn-LKAviii) I{. ;'.^"-4° high ; leaves ovate or 

 heart-shaped, toothed or o-lobed, some of them hnlberd-shaped ; peduncles 

 slender ; calyx inflated ; corolla flesh-cnliu-ed. 4'— J' broad. Penn. to Minn. 



' " "^ ■ .rt- *+ Leaves downy beneaUu often also on top. 



H. aculeitus, Walt. Prickly R. In swamps, S. C, S. and W., has 



the involueel leaves lobed. round-cordate -l-Mobed leaves, hoary beneath, 

 yellow purple-centered flowers, and hispid stems. 



H. Moschetitos. Linn. Swamp R. .S°-7° high; the ovate, pointed, 

 and often :Mobt(l leaves hoary beneath, generally smooth above ; pcdun- 



