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A. Btri&tum, Dicks. Flowering maple. Fig. 4ol. Shrub: leaves 3-5- 

 lobed, green: flowers drooping, on long solitary axillary peduncles, bell- 

 shaped, veiny-orange or red. Brazil. A conservatory and 

 house plant. 



A. Thbrnpsoni, Hon. Spotted flowering maple. Like 1 

 last, but the leaves spotted veith yellow, arid the column 

 stamens strongly projecting from the flower. Common in 

 cultivation. 



A. Avic6nn8B, Gaertn. Velvet leaf. Indian mallow. Stout 

 annual, 3 or 4 ft., densely pubescent: flowers yellow, erect, 

 on peduncles shorter than the long petioles: leaves large, 

 roundish heart-shaped, taper - pointed, and velvety: calyx 461. 

 5-cleft: carpels 12-15, united, pubescent, beaked, 2-valve 

 with 3-9 seeds in each cell. August to October. Weed, from Asia. 

 4. HIBISCUS. Rose Mallow. 



Herbs or shrubs, with an involucre of many narrow bracts: stamen- 

 column anther-bearing most of its length: styles, 5, united: pod 5-loculed, 

 loculicidal: flowers large and showy. 



H. Syrlacus, Linn. AltJiea of cultivated grounds. Hose of Sharon. 

 Shrub 10 ft.: leaves wedge-ovate and 3-lobed: flowers showy, in various 

 colors, in the leaf-axils in summer and fall, often double. Asia. 



XXV. GERANIACE^. Geranium Family. 



Herbs, chiefly with simple leaves: flowers perfect, in most genera 

 nearly regular (but sometimes very irregular), 5-merous : stamens as 

 many or twice as many as the sepals, hypogynous: ovary single, the 

 locules usually as many as the sepals: fruit capsular. A most diverse 

 family, often divided into several. There are about 20 genera and 700 

 species. Common examples are geranium, pelargonium, nasturtium, 

 balsam, jewel-weed or touch-me-not, oxalis. 



A. Flowers regular or very nearly so. 

 B. Leaves simple (often deeply lobed). 



C. Anther-bearing stamens 10 1. Geranium 



CO. Anther-bearing stamens about 7 2. Pelargonium 



BB. Leaves compound 3. Oxalis 



AA. Flowers very irregular. 



B. Flower with one very long spur 4. Tropceolum 



BB. Flower hanging by its middle, with a short hooked spur. 5. Impatiens 



1. GESANIUM. Cranesbill. 



Small herbs with forking stems and 1-3-flowered peduncles: sepals and 

 petals 5 : glands on the torus 5, alternating with the petals : stamens 10, 

 usually all of them with perfect anthers : fruit 5 1-seeded carpels separat- 

 ing from the axis from the base upwards and curling outwards. 



