38 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS- 



3. MON I I t . L. 



M. fonta'na, L. A small, spreading, somewhat fleshy 

 herb, with opposite, spathulate leaves. Sepals 2. Petals 5, 

 three of them somewhat smaller. Stamens usually 3, borne 

 on the claws of the smaller petals. Pod 3-valved and 3- 

 seeded. Wet places, Atl. Prov. 



ORDER XVHI. MALVA'CE-E. (MALLOW FAMILY.) 

 Herbs, with palmately- veined alternate stipulate leaves. 

 Flowers regular. Calyx valvate. Corolla convolute in the 

 bud. Sepals 5, united at the base, Petals 5, hypogynous. 

 Stamens numerous, monadelphous, hypogynous ; anthers 1- 

 celled. Carpels united in a ring, separating after ripening. 

 Seeds kidney-shaped. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 



1. Mai va. Carpels without beaks, 1-seeded. A circle of 3 bractlets at 



the base of the calyx. Stigmas occupying the inner face of the 

 style. 



2. .Hal vas'trinii. Carpels without beaks, 1-seeded. Involucel of 3 



bractlets, or none. Stigmas terminal, capitate. Low hoary herbs. 

 .". Ahii'tilon. Carpels 2-beaked, 1-6-seeded. No circle of bractlets. 

 4. Hibiscus. Column of stamens naked and 5-toothed at the apex. 



Pod 5-celled, many-seeded. Involucel of many bractlets. 



1. MALTA, L. MALLOW. 



1. M. rotundifo'lia, L. (BOUND-LEAVED MALLOW.) Stems 

 several, procumbent, from a stout tap-root. Leaves long- 

 petioled, round-heart-shaped, crenate, crenately - lobed. 

 Petals obcordate, whitish, streaked with purple, twice as 

 long as the sepals. Waysides and cultivated fields. 



2. M. sylves'tris, L. (HIGH M.) Stem erect, 2 feet high. 

 Leaves sharply 5-7-lobed. Petals purple, 3 times as long as 

 the sepals. Near dwellings. 



3. M. eris'pa, L. (CURLED M.) A tall erect annual, with 

 round and angled toothed and crisped leaves, and small 

 sessile flowers crowded in the axils. Escaped from old 

 gardens. 



4. M. moseha'ta, L. (MusK M.) Stem erect, 1 foot high. 

 Stem leaves 5-parted, the divisions cleft. Flowers large and 



