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1896 | POPULAR AMERICAN PLANT-NAMES 477 
PORTULACACES. 
Portulaca grandiflora, Lindl., rose-moss, Kentucky moss, Sulphur 
Grove, io. 
Portulaca oleracea,' L., purslane, Cal. 
pursley,? Sulphur Grove, Ohio. 
pusley,? Minn. 
pursley or pusley, Parke County, Ind. 
Talinum calycinum, Engelm., rock pink, Greene County, Mo. 
HYPERICACE. 
| Hypericum prolificum, L., paint-brush,® near Oakdam, Ind. 
MALVACEZ. 
Abutilon Avicenne, Geertn., butter-print,* Iowa, Central IIl. 
pie-print,> S. W. Mo. 
pie marker, Indian hemp, Sulphur Grove, 
Ohio. 
Abutilon, sp., mountain lily, Maine. 
Hibiscus Trionum, L., modesty, Sulphur Grove, Ohio. 
Lavatera assurgentiflora, Kellogg, tree-mallow, Santa Barbara, and 
Santa Barbara Islands, Cal. 
Malva moschata, L., musk (or mush), Me. 
Malva rotundifolia, L., cheeses, Cumberland County, Me. 
cheesetts, Oxford County, Me. 
Malvastrum coccineum, Gray, moss rose, Burnside, S, D 
Spheralcea Emoryi, Torr., cimarona (Span.), cheese-weed, Cal. 
TILIACEZ. 
Tilia Americana, L.., lin tree, Sulphur Grove, Ohio. 
white wood, West. 
GERANIACE. 
Erodium cicutarium, L’Her., alfillarilla or filaree,° Berkeley, Cal. 
in clover, Cal. 
Erodium moschatnm, Willd., alfillarilla or filaree, Berkeley, Cal. 
musky filaria, pin clover, Cal. 
Geranium incisum, Nutt., crane’s bill, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Cal. 
1 Used as food by the Indians. 
2 Evidently corruptions of purslane. 
8 From resemblance of flowers to a small paint- 
4 Alluding to the form of the seed-pods. 
5 Used to stamp pie-crust. 
® A name used by the Spanish Californians. 
brush. 
