PINK AND RED GROUP 



Milk Purslane. Spotted Spurge 

 Euphorbia, maculata. — Family, Spurge. Color, red, imparted 

 by the glands of the involucre. (See description of the Spurge 



Flower, p. 9.) Leaves, small, oblong, narrow, slightly and 

 finely toothed near the apex,' about \ inch long. They are gen- 

 erally marked with a dark, reddish spot near the middle. Stipules 

 present, narrow, fringed. The flowers grow in heavy clusters on 

 rather long peduncles along the sides of the branches. Stem, 

 prostrate, often dark red, 2 to 15 inches long. 



Common in open places, along roadsides, in dry fields. 

 Marsh Mallow 



Althaea officinalis (name means "to cure," in allusion to sup- 

 posed healing properties). — Family, Mallow. Color, pale rose 

 Sepals, 5, united at base. Outside of these are 6 to 9 long, nar- 

 row, green bractlets. Corolla, of 5 petals about 1 inch across. 

 Stamens, many, united at base, making a column or ring around 

 the pistils, the anthers separate above. Styles, projecting beyond 

 the anthers, as many as the divisions of the ovary, stigmatic along 

 their inner sides. Flowers, in axils and terminal, racemose. 

 Leaves, alternate, broad, generally 3-lobed, deeply toothed, ovate 

 or heart-shaped at base, palmately veined, covered with velvety 

 down. Stem, erect, 2 to 4 feet high, bushy, leafy. 



Salt marshes on the coast of New England and New York 

 southward. The root, full of mucilage, is used by con- 

 fectioners for the favorite marsh mallows, also somewhat in 

 medicine. 



High Mallow 



Mal<va sylvestris — Family, Mallow. Color, reddish purple or 

 deep crimson. Calyx, of 5 sepals with an underlying involucre of 

 3 bractlets. Corolla of 5 large, notched petals, three times the 

 length of the calyx. Stamens and styles much like the last. 

 Fruit, a ring of blunt, roundish, wrinkled, veiny, 1 -sided carpels. 

 Flowers, in axillary clusters, on slender pedicels. Leaves, 5 to 

 7-lobed, sharply toothed, kidney-shaped, square at base. Stem, 

 2 to 3 feet high. Summer. 



A wayside plant, also found in old gardens, common. 



Musk Mallow 

 M. moschata. — Color, white or pink. (See White Flowers, p. 

 92.) 



Swamp Rose Mallow 

 Hibiscus Moscheutos. — Family, Mallow. Color, rose, sometimes 

 white. Calyx, 5-divided, surrounded by many narrow bracts. 



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