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MALLOW FAMILY. 61 
are remarkably mucilaginous, and much esteemed, by many persons, as 
a table vegetable, and as an ingredient in soups. 
* HIBIS’CUS, ZL. Rosz-mattow. 
ient classical name, for one of the Mallow Family. 
Calye S-clett, pareeat. Involucel of many linear bractlets. Column of 
stamens long, bearing anthers for much of its length. Styles united ; 
stigmas 5, capitate. Pod 5-eelled, opening into 5 valves which bear the 
9 age on their middle. Herbs or shrubs with showy flowers 
1. H. trio’num, L. Upper leaves pen Se 3-parted, lower ones toothed 
calyx inflated, membranaceous, with bristly-ribs, 5-winged at the summit. 
'THREE-LOBED Eiryraous Bladder Ketmnin = sania 
Ann wna 8 —_ 1- ee ayy ee Leaves 1~8 inches long, the lobes lanceolate, 
the le can se ; petioled. Flowers gre erent yellow with a purple spot at base, 
axillary, spileary, fugacious ; peduncles about as long as the " 
Gardens and jets. Native of South Europe and Africa. July - -September. 
Obs. Bopaanty cultivated 3 in gardens, and not rare as a weed in cul- 
tivated g¢ eronpds, 
2. H. Sesh acus, L. Binubiy or tree-like ; leaves rorae wedge saree 
smooth, entire at the base, 3-lobed and toothed a the apex ; pedicels 
scarcely longer than the poke! involucel 6 — 7-lo ed. 
Syrian Hrsiscus. Rose of Sharon. Shrubby Althea. 
common in cultivation, where it is usually kept trimmed ; 
when allowed to grow uncut it forms a large tree-like shrub, with long 
gb of s hite to 
us 
deep purple; often becoming double. It is rather troublesome in 
grounds on account of the readiness with which it t propagates itself = 
seeds. 
7. GOSSYP’IUM, LZ. ene 
su prvaire to be of Egyptian origin 
Calyx capstone, obtusely 5-toothed, pincers bya ma et involucel ; 
the leaflets united set cordate at base, 4 ply incised-dentate. Styles 
united ; stigmas 3 or sometimes 5. Capsule 3  calod loculicidal. Seeds 
numerous, enveloped in a long fine wool. Young branches and leaves more — 
or less covered with black dots ; the nerves benaeth usually with one OF 
more glands. 
1. G. nERBA EF Stem smooth; leaves 3— 5-lobed, with st 
ae roman mucronate ; involucel serrate ; wool 
HErRBAcEous ‘Goats Cotton. Cot otton- lant. . 
Fr. Le ¢ Coutanier. aon, Die Baumwolle. : 
Root aie eg 2-4 feet nh branched. TE aad 6 toches eoaas, 2-3 
beset with a veo like cau o or tba fibres. ren, at at eee “San : 
| pressed Leen 
mien ay poing apam.or:dirawn. and teristed hd delicate threads. : 
very largely Se Oe ee ree Native of Asia, 
