336 MALVACEAE. Hibiscus. 



iii. 806, 808. B. Moscheutos, Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 286 ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxxiii. t. 7 ; 

 Fl. Series, xii. t. 1233.1 H. palustris, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 882; Liudl. Bot. Reg. t. 1463; 

 Jacksou, Jour. Linn. Soc. xix. 9. //. Carolinianus, Chapni. Fl. 58. //. roseus, Thore in 

 Loisel. Fl. Gall. ii. 434 ; DC. Prodr. i. 450 ; Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 277 ; & H. cnjuatictis, 

 DC. Fl. Fr. ed. 3, vi. 627, & Prodr. 1. c. ; the plant nat. in S. Eu. — Swamps, mostly brack- 

 ish, Canada near L. Erie and L. Ontario, to Florida and E. Texas, but chiefly near the 

 coast. 

 H. incanus, Wkvdl. Leaves mostly ovate-lauccolate and merely serrate : petals sulpliur- 

 yellow with crimson ba.>;e : otherwise as //. Mosc/ieutos. — Bot. Beub. 54, & Hort. Ilerrenh. 

 "fasc. 4, 8, t. 24; Willd. Spec. iii. 807 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 237; Chapm. Fl. 57. —Swamps, 

 S. Carolina to Florida and Alabama ; first coll. by Bartram. 



b. Herbage glabrous and green throughout, very smootii: calyx accrescent, looser and thin- 

 meml)ranaceous in fruit: walls of capsule (always 1) glabrous within ; seeds pubescent. 



H. COCCineus, Walt. Leaves ample ; lower palmately or pedately 5-7-parted into lanceo- 

 late acuminate divisions (4 to 8 inches long) ; uppermost hastately 3-cleft or ovate and 

 3-lobed, with middle lobe caudate-acuminate : calyx in fruit 2 inches long, deeply 5-cleft, 

 much surpassing the glabrous capsule, the lobes triangular-lanceolate : petals deep red, 

 spatulate-obovate, 3 to 5 inches long, widely spreading. — Car. 177 ; Bartr. Trav. 104 ; Torr. 

 & Gray, Fl. i. 238 ; Chapm. Fl. 58 ; Meehan, Native Flowers, ser. 1, ii. t. 1. H. speciosus, 

 Ait. Kew. ii. 456; Wendl. "Hort. Herrenh. fasc. 2, 15, t. 11 "; Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 360; 

 Michx. Fl. ii. 47 ; Harton, Fl. N. A. i. 33, t. 9. — Swamps of Georgia and Florida, near the 

 coast; first coll. by Bartram. (S. Am.) 



Var. integrifolius, Chapm. A form with only moderately 3-cleft or angulate-lobed 

 but more serrate leaves. — Fl. ed. 2, 610.^ — E. Florida, in deep marshes, Chapman. 



H. militaris, Cav. Less tall : leaves mainly hastate, the middle lobe ovate-lanceolate and 

 acuminate, but some upper ones only deltoid- or ovate-lanceolate, and lower broadly sub- 

 cordate and 3-cleft : calyx slightly 5-lobed, becoming oblong-campanulate and at length 

 ovoid, loosely enclosing the puberulent or glabrous capsule, the lobes incumbent : petals 

 pale flesh-color with purple base, broad, 2 or 3 inches long, moderately spreading from erect 

 base. —Diss. vi. 352, t. 198, f. 2; Willd. Spec. iii. 808; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2385 ; Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. i. 238. H. laevis, "Scop. Del. Flor. iii. 35, t. 17." H. Virginicus, Walt. Car. 177, 

 not L. H. hastaliis, Michx. Fl. ii. 45. //. riparius, Pers. Syn. ii. 254. H. Carolinianus, 

 Muhl. Cat. 63, & probably Ell. Sk. ii. 168. — Wet banks of rivers, Pennsylvania to Minne- 

 sota and southward to Florida and Texas. 

 H. Rosa-Sinensis, L. Shrub with very smooth green leaves and large intensely red 



flowers, may sometimes escape from cultivation in S. Florida and S. Texas, but hardly. 



* * * * Trionitm, DC. Corolla rotately spreading, open only for a few hours in sun- 

 shine : calyx vesicular-inflated and closed over the globular capsule : seeds not woolly. — 

 Trionum, Medic. Malv. 46. 



H. Tri^ncm, L. (Flower-of-an-hour.) Annual, low, sparsely hispid or glabrate: lowest 

 leaves round or cordate and 3-lobed ; upper 3-5-parted into cuneate-oblong or spatulate and 

 incised divisions, the middle one of upper leaves longer and lanceolate : calyx soon scarious 

 and green-nerved : corolla sulphur-color or nearly white with a brown-purple eye : seeds 

 muricate-papillose. — Spec. ii. 697 ; Curtis, Bot. Mag.^. 209 ; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. v. 

 t. 181. //. ColUnsiana, Xutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 237, as to pi. Ware. U. pallidus, Raf. 

 Jide Wats. Bibl. Index, 135. — Spontaneous about gardens, and especially in the Mississippi 

 Val. becoming a troublesome weed on cultivated ground. (Nat. from Eu., &c.) 



§ 2. Abelmoschus. Calyx spathaceon.s, 5-toothed, splitting down one side 

 and deciduous from or near the base : bractlets distinct, often deciduous : capsule 

 5-celled, many-seeded. — § Manihot and part of Abelmoschus, DC. Abelmoschus, 

 Medic. Malv. 45. Introduced tropical annuals. 



1 Add Meehan's Monthly, ii. 161, t. 11. 



2 Add syn. H. semilobatus, Chapm. Fl. ed. 3, 52. 



