THE MALLOW FAMILY. ^y 



THE HALLOW FAHILY. 



iMahacccr. 



Shrubs or herbs, rarely trees, 7oith alternate, mostly palmatcly-veiihil 

 teai'es, and JJou'crs ivhich are regular and perfeet, icith numerous 

 sta?nens united about the pistil into a sort of eolitniti. 



CLUSTERED POPPY MALLOW. 



Callirrha' trlamiulata. 



TIME OF BLOOM 

 Jum-A n^uit. 



Flo7vers: growing sparingly in terminal panicles and having a three-leaved, 

 rough and persistent involucre at the base. Calyx : rough, rue-|)artcd. Corottn] 

 with five thin petals. Stamens: numerous; united into a column-like formation 

 about the style. Carpets: hairy with kidney-shaped seeds. Lea-.es : with very 

 long, roughly pubescent petioles ; triangular-hastate, the upper ones smaller with 

 three to five lobes, short-petioled, unequally crenate, or dentate. Stem : two to 

 three feet high, ascending, branched above, purplish and roughly pubescent. 



As flowers succeed one another, not in regular set gradations of size and 

 form, but perhaps in gorgeousness, we find in mid-summer the mallows 

 spreading their bloom. And about the whole genus from the largest mem- 

 ber to the smallest there is an unmistakable look, a bond of union in the 

 peculiar growth of the stamens about the style. Some of them are coarse, 

 hairy and awkward, wdiiie others represent the most splendid of our wild 

 flowers. This one grows in dry soil, and appears very showy with its pur- 

 ple, poppy-like flowers. 



C. Papaver, a low, slender species, also with purple flowers, is found 

 through the rich woods of Florida and Georgia. Its leaves are from tiiree 

 to five times parted into lanceolate divisions, toothed or entire. Occasionally 

 about the flowers there is no involucre, and when present it has from one to 

 three leaves. 



VIRGINIA KOSTELETZKYA. 



Kosteletzkya Virg in it < i . 



Ftmvers : growing in terminal, loose panicles. Ln'otucn: : with eight to nine 

 thread-like, persistent bracts. Calyx : persistent ; with five lanceolate segments. 

 Corolla: with five, delicate petals. Stamens: numerous, monodclphous, the tol- 



