72 MALLOW FAMILY. 



flowers IJ' in diameter, the petals pale rose-color or white, striped with dark 

 purple or violet veins. ® 



M. Sylv6stris, High M. Gardens and roadsides ; 2° - 3° high, branch- 

 ing, with rather sharply 5 - 7-lobed leaves, and pui-ple-rose-colored flowers rather 

 smaller.than in the last ; fruit wrinkled-veiny. ® 2/ 



M. Alcea. Gardens ; 2° - 4° high, hairy, with stem-leaves parted almost 

 to the base into 3-5 divisions which are again 3 - 5-cleft or cut-toothed ; and 

 showy flowers in clusters or terminal racemes ; corolla deep rose-color, 1|' - 2' 

 broad ; fruit smooth, minutely wrinkled-veiny, y. 



M. moscb^ta, Musk M. Gardens, and escaped to roadsides, l°-2° 

 high, rather hairy, with the herbage faintly musk-scented, leaves about thrice 

 parted or cut into slender linear lobes, and short-pediincled flowers somewhat 

 clustered or racemed ; corolla 1^' broad, rose-color or white ; fruit downy. 



6. CALLIRRHOE. (A Greek mythological name, applied to N. American 

 plants.) Species chiefly farther W. and S., becoming rather common in 

 choice gardens. Flowers crimson, mauve, or red-purple, very showy, pro- 

 duced all summer. 



« Root thick, often turnip-shaped, farinaceous : stems roughish-hairy or smoothish. y, 



C. trianguld/ta. Dry prairies from Wisconsin S. ; stems erect, 2° high ; 

 leaves triangular, halberd-shaped, or the lowest heart-shaped, the upper cut- 

 lobed or 3 - 5-cleft ; flowers somewhat panicled and short-peduncled ; involucre 

 as long as the calyx. ; corolla 1 ^' or less in diameter ; carpels of the fruit even 

 on the back, tipped with a short point. 



C. involucr^ta. Wild from plains of Nebraska S., and cult, for orna- 

 ment; stems spreading on the ground, l°-3° long; stipules conspicuous; 

 leaves rounded, 5-parted or cleft and cut-lobed, shorter than the axillary pedun- 

 cles ; involucre shorter than the calyx ; corolla 2' or more broad ; carpels of 

 the fruit reticulated, tipped with a flat and inconspicuous beak. 



C. Eap^ver. Wild in rich woodlands from Georgia to Texas, and spar- 

 ingly cult. ; stems short, ascending, few-leaved ; leaves 3 - 5-parted with lance- 

 linear divisions, or the lowest rather heart-shaped and cleft into oblong lobes ; 

 axillary peduncles very (often 1°) long; involucre of 1-3 bracts or none; 

 corolla 2' or more broad ; eai-pels of the fruit wrinkled or reticulated and with 

 a stout incurved beak. 



C. digitkta. Wild in prairies of Arkansas and Texas ; 1° high ; leaves 

 mostly from the root, 5 - 7-parted into long linear sometimes 2 - 3-cleft divis- 

 ions ; peduncles long and slender ; involucre none ; corolla 1^' - 2' broad, the 

 petals fringo-toothed at the end ; fruit nearly as in the last. 



« * Root slender or tapering : herbage smooth. (T) ® 

 C. ped^ta. Wild in E. Texas; not rare cult. ; stem erect, l°-5° high, 

 leafy ; leaves rounded, 3 - 7-lobed or parted and the wedge-shaped divisions cleft 

 or cut ; peduncles slender, longer than the leaves ; involucre none ; corolla about 

 1^' broad, the petals minutely eroded at the end ; carpels of the frait smooth 

 and even on the back, and with a stout conspicuous beak. 



7. WAP^A, GLADE-MALLOW. (From Greek name for (^/arfe or ni/mpi 

 of the groves. ) Only one species, 



N. diolca. In valleys, chiefly in limestone districts of Penn., Virginia, 

 atid W. A rather coarse, roughish herb; stem 4° -7° high; leaves 9-11- 

 parted and their lobes cut and toothed, the lowest often 1° in'diamcter ; flowers 

 small, in panicled corymbs, in summer. 



8. ANODA. (Origin of the name obscure.) Low herbs from Mexico, 

 Texas, &e., sparingly cult, for ornament. Stems, &c. hirsute : peduncles 

 long and slender, 1-flowered. Fruit in the form of a many-rayed star, sup- 

 ported by the spreading 5-rayed calyx : when ripe the rim of each carpel faffs 

 away with the seed it embraces, the sides or partitions disappearing. @ 



A. hast&ta has mostly halberd-shaped leaves, and blue or violet corolla 

 only 1° - 1^0 in diameter ; lobes of the calyx ovate, scarcely pointed. 



