318 MALVACE^. Modlola. 



preceding. — Bot. Wilkes Exped. 255.1 — Wasliiugton, on the upper Columbia River, Pk/c- 

 erinq & Bruckenridije, Tweedy, Brande<]ee. 



9. MODIOLA, Moeuch, (The fruit of the form of a modiolus, which is 

 either a small measure or the nave of a wheel.) — Low and diffuse chiefly sub- 

 perennial herbs, of the warmer parts of America, hirsute with simple or geminate 

 hairs ; with rounded palmately lobed and incised green leaves, small flowers soli- 

 tary on axillary peduncles, a persistent involucel of 3 foliaceous bractlets, small 

 dull-red petals, a depressed- fruit of 15 to 30 thin-coriaceous carpels ; these reni- 

 form, much compressed, the back at summit bearing a bipartible cusp, at length 

 falling free from the axis, and tardily 2-valved from the top. — Meth. 619 ; St. 

 Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. i. 210, t. 43 ; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 71, t. 128. — Several forms, 

 probably all of one species. 



M. milltifida, Miench, 1. c. 620. Stems a .'span to a foot or two long : peduncles commonly 

 filiform and ecmalling or surpassing the petiole : petals 2 or 3 lines long, little surpassing 

 the calyx : carpels hirsute, at least when young. — Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 229. M. Caroliuiamt, 

 Don, Syst. i. 466 ; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 72, t' 128. Malva Caroliniana, L. Spec. ii. 688 (Dill. 

 Elth. i. 5, t. 4) ; Cav. Di.ss. ii. t. 15, f. 1 ; Michx. Fl. ii. 44; DC. Prodr. i. 435. — Waste 

 grounds, Virginia to Florida and Texas, near the coast, and sometimes a ballast-weed farther 

 north ;'^ fl. all summer. (Mex. to Buenos Ayres, &c.) 



10. H0RSF6RDIA, Gray. {Frederick Hinsdale Horsford, of Vermont, 

 associate of C. G. Pringle in the collection of rare N. American plants.) — 

 Densely and somewhat roughly stellular-tomentose shrubby or suffruticose plants, 

 with much the habit of Abutilon or Sphceralcea, with carpels rather of the latter 

 but seed of the former ; the leaves cordate to lanceolate and barely denticulate, 

 thickish ; the chiefly axillary peduncles 1-flowered. — Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 296. 

 — Two species.^ 



H. alata, Gray, 1. c. 297. Frutescent, 3 to 6 feet high : leaves subcordate and ovate-lanceo- 

 late (1 to 3 inches long) : petals purple, half inch long, much surpassing the ovate-acuminate 

 calyx-lobes: carpels 10 or 12, with upper pair of ovules abortive ; upper empty portion de- 

 hiscent long before maturity into a pair of narrowly oblong obtuse erect scarious wings of 

 thrice the length of the basal seminiferous body. — Sidn alata, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 

 356. — Along water-courses in mountains of N. W. Sonora, below the boundary of Arizona, 

 Pringle. (Therefore Mex.) 



H. Newberryi, Gray, I.e. More sliru])by : lower leaves more cordate: petals bright 

 yellow (according to Orcutt's note), ([uarter inch long, nearly twice the length of the acutish 

 calyx-lobes : carpels 8 or 9, 2-3-seeded ; the scarious upper 2-valved portion obliquely and 

 broadly oval, somewhat divergent, hardly twice the length of the reticulated basal body. — 

 Abutilon Neivberryi, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 125 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 87, exd. 

 syn. Sphceralcea crotonoides, Torr. in herb. — Arizona, in the bed of the Gila, &c., Eiiiori/, 

 Newberry, Parry ; adjacent Californian desert, Parish ; caiions on borders of Lower Cali- 

 fornia, Palmer, Orcutt. (Adj. Sonora, Mex., Pringle.) 



11. ANODA, Cav. (Ceylonese name of an Abutilon, recorded by Bur- 

 mann, taken up for this American genus by Cavanilles.) — Annuals, chiefly 

 Mexican, with variable hastate or deltoid or cordate leaves (sometimes 3-5-cleft) 

 and single flowers on slender axillary or at summit racemose peduncles. — Diss. 



1 Cited in Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 294, by clerical error, as S. leptosepnln. 



2 Also occasional in California, as at Auburn, coll. .\frs. Ames, and about Los Angeles, Miss Merritt, 

 ace. to Dr. Davidson. 



3 Two more species of X. W. Mexico and Lower Calif, have since been added. 



