176 THE FLORA. 
1, CLAYTO’NIA. Spring Beauty. 
Sepals 2, ovate. Petals 5, emarginate or obtuse. Stamens 5, inserted 
on the claws of the petals. Stigmas 8, on 1 long style. Capsule 3-valved, 
2-5-seeded.—They are small, fleshy, 2f, early-flowering herbs, arising 
from 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. 
2. PORTULA’OA. Purselanes. 
Sepals 2: Petals 5, equal. Stamens 8-20. Styles 3-6. Pyxis lid 
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. Fils. 
large, red or scarlet. Cultivated. June. 
Orper XXIV. MALVACEA. The Mallows. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with alternate, stipulate, divided leaves, with the 
Jlowers 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. 
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Fig. 411. Hibiscus Trionum (Flower-of-an-hour); 2, cross-section of the flower, showing 
the arrangement of its parts; 8, cross-section of the 5-celled capsule; 4, capsule open by its live 
valves; 5, Malva sylvestris; 6, its fruit, consisting of 10 carpels arranged in a circle; 7, section of 
one of the carpels, showing the curved embryo, 
