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Handsome, rose-coloured or white, on short peduncles, 

 crowded on the stem and branches in the upper axils. — 

 Roadsides near gardens. 



2. MALVAS'TRl'M. Gray. False Mallow. 

 M. eoeein'eum, Gray. (Prairie Mallow.) A low hoary 

 perennial, with rose-pink flowers in spikes or racemes. 

 Leaves 5-parted or pedate. Petals much larger than the 

 sepals. — N. W. 



3. ABU'TIIOV, Toum. INDIAN Mallow. 

 A. Avieen'nse, Gsertn. (Velvet- Leaf.) Stem 2-5 feet 

 high, branching. Leaves velvety, round-cordate, long- 

 pointed. Corolla yellow. — Near gardens ; not common. 



4. niBlS'crs, L. Rose-Mallow. 



1. H. Moseheu'tOS, L. (Swamp Eose-Mallow.) A tall 

 perennial, with very large and showy pink or white flowers, 

 in late summer. Calyx not inflated. Leaves ovate, pointed, 

 toothed ; the lower 3-lobed, all white-downy beneath. — S.W. 

 Ontario, in marshes. 



2. H. Trio'num, L. (Bladder Ketmia.) A low hairy 

 annual. Calyx inflated in fruit, and 5-winged. Corolla 

 sulphur-yellow, with dark centre. — Escaped from gardens. 



Order XIX. TILIA'CEiE. (Linden Family.) 



Trees with fibrous bark, soft and white wood, and heart- 

 shaped and serrate leaves, with deciduous stipules. Flowers 

 in small cymes hanging on an axillary peduncle, to which 

 is attached a leaf-like bract. Sepals deciduous. The only 

 Canadian genus is 



miA, L. Basswood. Whitewood. 

 1. T. America'na, L. (Basswood.) A fine tree, in rich 

 woods. Flowers yellow or cream-coloured, very fragrant. 

 Leaves smooth and green on both sides, obliquely cordate or 

 truncate at the base, sharply serrate. Sepals 5. Petals 5. 

 Fruit a globular nut, 1-celled, 1-2-seeded 



