38 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



3. ItlON'TIA, L. 



M. fonta'na, L. A small, spreading, somewhat fleshy- 

 herb, with opposite, spathulate leaves. Sepals 2. Petals 5, 

 three of them somewhat smaller. Stamens usually 3, borne 

 on the claws of the smaller petals. Pod 3-valved and 3- 

 seeded. — Wet places, Atl. Prov. 



Order XVni. MALVA'CE.S;. (Mallow Family.) 

 Herbs, with palmately-veined alternate stipulate leaves. 

 Flowers regular. Calyx valvate. Corolla convolute in the 

 bud. Sepals 5, united at the base, petals 5, hypogynous. 

 Stamens numerous, monadelphous, hypogynous ; anthers 1- 

 celled. Carpels united in a ring, separating after ripening. 

 Seeds kidney-shaped. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 

 L. JMalvji. Carpels without beak*^, 1-seeded. A circle of 3 bractlets at 

 the base of tbe calyx. Stigmas occupying the inner face of the 



2. MalTas'truni. Carpels without beaks, 1-seeded. Involucel of s 



bractlets, or none. Stigmas terminal, capitate. Low hoary herbs. 



3. Abn'tUon. Carpels 2-beaked, 1-6-seeded. No circle of bractlets. 



i. Hibls'cus. Column of stamens naked and 5-toothed at the apex. 

 Pod 6-celled, many-seeded. Involucel of many bractlets. 



1. MAIVA, L. Mallow. 



1. M. rotundifo'lia, L. (Eound-leaved Mallow.) Stems 

 several, procumbent, from a stout tap-root. Leaves loug- 

 petioled, round-heart-shaped, crenate, crenately - lobed. 

 Petals obcordate, whitish, streaked with purple, twice as 

 long as the sepals. — Waysides and cultivated fields. 



2. M. sylves'tFiS, L. (High M.) Stem erect, 2 feet high. 

 Leaves sharply B-T -lobed. Petals purple, 3 times as long as 

 the sepals. — Near dwellings. 



3. ;M. eris'pa, L. (Curled M.) A tall erect annual, with 

 round and angled toothed and crisped leaves, and small 

 sessile flowers crowded in the axils. — Escaped from old 

 gardens. 



4. M. moseha'ta, L. (Musk M.) stem erect, 1 foot high. 

 Stem leaves S-parted, the divisions cleft. Flowers large and 



