MALVACEE. (MALLOW FAMILY.)* 31 
1. H. Scouleri. Hook. Stems erect from a running rootstock 4 to 2 feet high, 
terete, simple or sparingly branched ; leaves ovate to obiong, clasping, an inch or less 
long ; petals punctate, 3 to 5 lines long; capsule 3-celled. 
2. H. concinnum, Benth. Stems from a woody base, 3 to 6 inches high; leaves 
from oblong to linear, acute, an inch long or less, not clasping, usually folded. 
3. H. anagalloides, Cham & Schlecht. Stems numerous, weak, rooting at the 
lower joints, 1 to 10 inches long; leaves broadly ovate or elliptical, 2 to 6 inches long, 
optuse, clasping; sepals exceeding the petals; capsule 1-celled. 
Orprr 13. MALVACEZ:. 
Herbs or shrubs with alternate stipulate leaves; distinguished by the valvate calyx, 
convolute petals, their bases or short claws united with the base of a column of many 
united stamens, these with reniform anthers. Calyx 5-cleft or parted, persistent, with 
sometimes a calyx-like involucel of bracts. Petals 5, usually withering without 
falling off. Pistil usually either a ring of ovaries around a projecting receptacle or a 
3-10-celled ovary; styles united at least at the base. Leaves usually palmately ribbed- 
Flowers axillary. (See ADDENDA.) 
1. LAVATERA, L TREE Matiow. 
Involucel 3 to 6-cleft. Stamineal column divided into numerous filaments. Styles 
filiform. Fruit depressed; the several carpels separating from the prominent axis, 
1-seeded. 
1. L. assurgentiflora, Kellogg. A shrub 6 to 15 ft. high; flowers 1 to 4 in the 
axils on drooping pedicels; petals rose-purple, 1 to 14 inches long, with a broad truncato 
limb and narrow claws having a pair of dense hairy tufts at the base. Commonly culti- 
vated, but a native (?) of this State. 
2 MALVA, L Mattiow. 
Involucel 3-leaved. Petals obcordate, small. Herbaceous. Otherwise as Lavatera. 
M. borealis, Wallman. Annual; leaves round-cordate, crenate, 5-7-lobed; peduncles 
short; petals pinkish-white, 2 or 3 lines long. 
Distinguished from the biennial M/. rotundifolia by its short pedunceles, small flowers 
and rugose carpels. 
3. SIDALCEA, Gr. 
Involucel none. Stamineal column double; the filaments of the outer series usually 
anited into 5 sets, opposite the petals. Flowers in « terminal raceme or spike. Herbs. 
* Perennial. 
1. S. malveflora, Gr. Perennial, 1 to 3 ft. high; leaves on elongated petioles, 
