Lavatera. .MA1.\ ACK.K. 299 



Hulls. Fl. Ang. 307, not L. M. horealis [" Wallm. in "] Liljebl. Sv. Fl. c<l. 3, 374 ; Kcicheub. 

 If. Bot. Crit. t. JO; Fl. Dan. t. 1825; K. U. Hiiker. Jour. H..t. xxviii. 341. .»/. Sir„e„n», 

 of several Am. autli<tr.-i, not of Allioni. — (Vntr. and S. California, alnjul dwelliuf^B, &<•., cou 

 siileral)ly less frei|ui-nt than tlu- la.xt, from wiiicii it can «omftini<-j< wanely be diittiuguiitheU ; 

 also rarely fouml on lialla.xt in the Atlantic States. (Nat. from Ku.) 



2. ALTH-<^A, Tuuru. (Aucieiit Greek and Latin nam.- of Maic-ii Mal- 

 low, from akduy, to heal.) — Old World herbs; A. itosK.v, C'av., th.- Hollvhotrk, 

 eouimon in cultivation, and the following sparingly naturalized. — In.sL 'j7 ; L. 

 Gen. no. 561. 



A. okkicinAlIS, L. (.M.xusii M.u.i.ow.) Perennial fmrn a thi.k ami .hej. r<H»t (which 

 yields the mucilage for which the i)lant is ofticinal), 2 to 4 fctt hi;,'h, hranc hiiiK, tom»nl<«*- 

 canescent: leaves broadly ovate, serrate, ])artly iuci.-<ed or 3-loiied : jiedundcH axill:irv, 

 short, several-Howered : Howers short-pedicelled : petals pale rose-color, iialf incli lonjj : 

 carpels 15 to 20. — Spec. ii. 686; Fl. l)au. t. 530; Woodv. .Med. i. t. .M ; Torr. & (Jray. H. 

 i. 229. — Borders of salt marshes, Kew England and New York, also in a few places went- 

 ward and southward to Michigan aud Arkansas; fl. summer. (Nat. from Eu.) 

 A.* c.\snAbix.\, L. (Si)ec. ii. 686), readily distinguished from the prece<ling by its dipi- 

 tately 5-parted or -divided leaves, ha.s been found more or le.ss established in vacant lots in 

 Washington, D. C, G. Oliver (ace. to Holm, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. vii. 40). 



3. LAVATERA, Tourn. (Dedicated by Tournefort to one of the family 

 Lavater, a physician, of Zurich.) — Mem. Acad. Paris, 170G, 80. t. 7 ; L. Gen. 

 no. 558; Dill. Cat. PI. Giss. App. 155, t. 10.^ — Founded on the common an- 

 nual L. trimestris, L., of the gardens (§ Stegia, DC), which has an nmbn-ll.i- 

 shaped top to the axis of the fruit. In the other sections of tin- genus the t(tp is 

 conical, either large or small. All Old World plants (most of them shrubliy), 

 except the following, of the § Savimona {Saviniona, Webb & IJerth. I'hyt. Can. 

 i. 30), which are insular arborescent shrubs (Canarian and Californian !) with 

 long-petioled maple-shaped leaves, small caducous stipules, and a distinct joint in 

 the flower-stalk at some distance below the flower. 



L. assurgentiflora, Kellogg. Shrub with simple stems, 6 to 15 feet high, soft-pubern- 

 lent or ulalnate, the youug parts sometimes canescent : leaves 5-7-cleft, 3 to 6 (or at largest 

 even 9) inches broad; lobes ovate-triangular, coarsely and irregularly obtu.sely dentate: 

 pedicels few in the fascicles or rarely solitary, slender, inch or two long, commonly recnrvtd- 

 assurgeut: bractlets of the 3-partcd involucel oblong-lanceolate, shorter than the triangular 

 moderately accrescent calyx-lobes: petals cuneiform and truncate or obconlate, inch or 

 more long, mauve-purple and darker-veined ; claw bearded-pubescent at base : column gla- 

 brous : fruit below strongly winged between the carpels and apex not dilated nor exserted ; 

 mature carpels 6 to 8, turgid, roundish and nearly nerveless on the back, glabrous or almost 

 so. — Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 11, 14 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 83, ii. 437.— I.slands off 

 the coast of S. California, Anacapa,'- San Clcmente, San Miguel, &c., and natunilizwl or 

 cultivated on the mainland as far north as San Francisco ; » fl. from earliest spring. Near 

 the Canarian L. acerifolia, Cav., and considerably variable. 



1 Add E. G. Baker, Jour. Bot. xxviii. 210 (et $eq.), and f<«r fiirlher literature on the orifjin mid 

 distribution of the Pacific species of this interesting and peopraphicnlly dissevered p'nu!*, ^et• I.* Conie, 

 Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. ii. 516; Greene, Gard. & For. iii. 378, 379, & Pittonia, i. 260-26a ; Brandcprt!. 

 Zee, i. 109, 189; Parish, ibid. 300. 



2 Upon the small rocky Island of Anacapa, from which, it is said, the oriRinnl «i«*cimen» were 

 secured, the species has not since been observed and may now be extinct, although found on v«rit>u» 

 neifrhbnring islands. 



a Mr. T. S. Urandeffee (Zoe. i. 189) states that it is cultivated as far north as Mendocino Co., C«lif., 

 and inland to the foot-hills of the Sierras. 



