104 BLUE-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER. 



Large-flowered Hibiscus, Cotton Rose, or Wild AlthjEa. 

 Hibiscus ghandiflorus, Mich. Fl. Amer. vol. ii. p. 46. Pursh. Fl. Amer. p. 455. — 



MONADELPHIA POLYANDUIA, LiHTl. MaLVACE^, JuSS. 



This beautiful species of Hibiscus, which does not precisely agree with 

 any that I have seen described, although it is probably the above, is cha- 

 racterised by its ovato-cordate, obtusely and irregularly serrated, acute, 

 venous tough leaves, and its large rose-coloured flowers, which are deep- 

 red at the base, and streaked with the same colovir. The corolla is about 

 five inches in diameter, the anthers yellow. The stem and leaves are 

 smooth. It grows in salt marshes, and by the edges of ]30ols. 



