ORDEU 24. THE MALLOWS. 



17S 



1. CLAYTO'NIA. Spring Beauty. 



Sepals 2, ovate. Petals 5, einarginato or obtuse. Stamens 5, inserted 

 on the claws of the petals. Stigmas 3, on 1 long style. Capsule 3-valved, 

 2-5 -seeded. They are small, fleshy, y, early-flowering herbs, arising 

 iVoni a small tuber. 



1 C. Carolinia'na. Leaves ovate-lanceolate. Sepals and petals obtuse. 



2 C. Virgin'ica. Leaves linear or lance-linear. Sepals acute, petals obovate. 



Pyxis lid 



2. PORTULA'CA. Purselanes. 



Sepals 2. Petals 5, equal. Stamens 8-20. Styles 3-6. 

 opening off near the middle. Low and fleshy herbs. 



1 P. olera'cea. Common P. Leaves thick, wedge-shaped. Stem fleshy, reddish, 



prostrate. Flowers sessile, small, yellow. A common weed. Summer. 



2 P. grandiflo'ra. Great 'P. Leaves cylindric and fleshy. Stems ascending. Fls 



larg-i, red or scarlet. Cultivated. June. 



ORDER XXIT. MALYACE.E. The Mallows. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with alternate, stipulate, divided leaves, with the 

 flowers showy, axillary, regular, often with an involucel at the base; 

 5 sepals valvate and the 5 petals convolute in the bud, hypogynous; 

 stamens indefinite and monadelphous, the anthers splitting across; 

 carpels several, united into a ring or forming a several-celled capsule \ 

 seeds with a curved embryo in a little albumen. 



Fig. 411. Hibisc-ns Trionnm (Flower-of-an-bonr) ; 2, cross-section of the flower.tshowing 

 UK- arninirement of its parts: 8. cross-section of the 5-celled capsule; 4. capsule open by its five 

 valves; 5, Malva sylvestris; 6, its fruit, const-ting of 10 eari-els arranged In a circle ; 7, eeotion of 

 one <if liie csrj>rls, fhoMrine the curvp<! rmt.ryj. 



