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rOPULAK FLOKA. 



{Napxa) Glade-Mallow. 



(SiJa) SiDA. 

 (Ahiuilon) Indian-Mallow. 



Involucel or outer calyx none. 



Flowers diacious, small, white. Pods or cells one-seeded, 

 Flowers perfect. Cells of the pod 5 to 15. 



Seed only one in each cell. Flowers yellow or white. 

 Seeds 2 to 9 in each of the cells, 

 Anthers attached along the sides of the upper part of the slender column. Pod of 3 to o 

 cells, and splitting into as many valves. 

 Involucel of many thread-shaped leaves. 



Calyx splitting down one side when the flower opens. Pod long. 

 Calyx not splitting down one side. Pod short. Seeds naked, 

 Involucel of 3 heart-shaped toothed leaves. Seeds bearing wool, 



(Abelmosclms) *Okra. 



{JJihiscus) Ilii'.iscus. 



( Gossypiurii) * Cotton. 



817. Stamens of MrIIow unif^d in a tube (monadelphoiis). S18. An anther more magnilied. 319. Floweis and leaf of 

 ]VIarsh-Malluw. 320. Its compound pistil magnified. 321. Pod uf Hibiscus surrouuJed b/ the calyx and involu- 

 cel. 322. The pod sphiiing into 5 valves. 



Mallow. Mdlva. 

 Involucel or outer calyx 8-leaved. Petals notched at the upper and broader end. Stj-les many. 

 Little pods or cells many in a ring around a narrow axis or column (the whole shaped like a cheese), 

 when ripe falling away separately, each one-seeded. — Herbs ; flowering all summer. 



1. Low Mallow. Root very long ; stems spreading on the ground ; leaves round-kidney-shaped, 



long-stalked, scarcely lobed, crenate; flowers several in the axils, small, whitish. Very common 

 weed in waste and cultivated ground. 31. rotundifvlia. 



2. High M. Stem 3° high; leaves lobed; flowers large, rose-purple. Gardens. M. sylvestris. 



3. Musk ]M. Stem 2° high; leaves 5-parted and the divisions cut into linear lobes (the smell faintly 



musk}'); flowers large, rose-color. Gardens. M. mnscJiata. 



4. CuKLED JI. Stem 4° to 6° high ; leaves round, toothed, much curled around the edge ; flow- 



ers small,white, sessile in the axils. Gardens. 31. ci-ispa. 



Hibiscus. Jlibisciis. 

 Flowers large, with an involucel of many narrow bractlets, and a 5-cleft calyx, which does not open 

 down one side. Stamens in a long and slender column. Stigmas 5. Pod short, 5-celled, splitting 

 ■when ripe into 5 valves, many-seeded; the seeds smooth or hairy, not long-woolly. Showy herbs or 

 shrubs : flowering in autumn. 



