222 FLORA OF PHILADELPHIA. 



Philade Iphia— Navy Yard (Pi). 



Camden — Camden, ballast (C). Salem — Hancock's Bridge (Wa.). 

 Cape May — Cape May (He.) (Te.),, Wildwood (Ja.) (Mac), Avalon 

 (Ke.) (Le.), Ocean City (Pe.), Holly Beach (U. C. S.). Atlantic— Vent- 

 nor (Gi.), Atlantic City, 6ne specimen (Wn.), Ocean — Forked River, 

 Lavalette (Br.), Island Heights, Waretown (C), Seaside Park (Ha.). 

 Monmouth— Avon (Br.). Middlesex— South Aniboy (C). 



New Castle— Milligan 's Landing, Tatnall; Collins, Commons. 



6. HIBISCUS L. 

 Tall perennial herbs. ,.,.,,•. 



Leaves white-pubescent beneath; seeds glabrous or nearly so. 



Pod nearly globular, blunt. : 1. H. Moscheutos. 



Pod ovoid, long-pointed. > 2. H. oeuliroseus. 



.( Leaves glabrous on. both sides;: seeds hairy. 3. H. militaris. 



Low, hairy annual of waste places. 4. H. Tripnum. 



1. Hibiscus Moscheutos L. Swamp Rose-mallow. M. p. 622. Brackish 

 , marshes. Late summer. • 



2. Hibiscus oculiboseus Britton. Brackish marshes. Late summer. 



3* Hibiscus militabis Cav. Sweating Weed. M. p. 623> Biver banks. 

 Late summer. , _ (1 , 



, t Lancaster— York Furnace, Dr. J. B. Brinton, (B. C), Peacb Bottom 

 (Ca.), island in Susquehanna near Kane's Station (Pr.), Safe Harbor 



(p.). •;"••';.. ■ ■■ ; ' ? ' 



4. Hibiscus Tbionum L. Bladder Ketmia, Flower-of-an-hour. M. p. 623. 

 Waste places. Late summer. 



Hibiscus Syeiacus lit. Shrubby Althaea, Bose-df-Shdron. M. p. 

 623. Escaped from cultivation. Late summer. 



Order 19. PARIETALES. 



Sepals distinct, mostly persistent. 

 ... Endosperm little or none. 



Trees or shrubs with alternate leaves and large, solitary axillary 



flowers. , ... , . Fam. 1. Theaceae. 



Herbs or low shrubs with opposite or verticillate leaves. 

 Leaves punctate or black-dotted, estipulate. 



Fam. 2. Hyperieaceae. 

 „ Leaves stipulate; minute or small marsh or aquatic herbs with 



axillary flowers. Fam. 3. Elatinaceqe. 



Endosperm copious. 



Flowers regular, but the two outer sepals smaller; stamens numer- 

 ous, ovules orthotropous. . Fam. 4. Cistaceae. 

 Flowers irregular, some often cleistogamous ; stamens 5; ovules 

 anafcropous. Fam. 5. Violaceae. 

 Sepals more or less united into a gamosepalous calyx. 



!> Fam. 6. Passifloraceae. 



Family 1. THEACEAE DC. Tea Family. 



Stuabtia Malachodendkon L. M. p. 623. In cultivation. Spring. 

 Philadelphia— Bartram's Garden. 



Gobdonia Lasianthus L. Loblolly Bay. M. p. 624. Cultivated! 

 Early summer. 



