522 



MALVACEAE. 



Vol. II. 



I. Phymosia remota (Greene) 

 Britton. Maple-leaved Globe- 

 Mallow. Fig. 2865. 



Iliamna remota Greene, Leaflets i ; 206. 



1906. 

 Sphaeralcea remota Fernald, Rhodora 



10: 52. 1908. 



Perennial, erect, branched, 2°-6° 

 high, finely stellate-pubescent and 

 scabrous. Leaves nearly orbicular in 

 outline, palraately 5-7-lobed or cleft, 

 cordate, the lobes ovate or lanceolate, 

 dentate, acute, the middle one gener- 

 ally longest; flowers pink, I'-il' 

 .broad, short-pedicelled, clustered in 

 the upper axils or in terminal spike- 

 like racemes ; bractlets of the invo- 

 lucels linear, shorter than the calyx; 

 calyx densely pubescent, its lobes tri- 

 angular, acuminate. 



In gravelly soil, known' only from an 

 island in the Kankakee River, Illinois. 

 Summer. Previously referred to the 

 western Sphaeralcea acerifolia Nutt. 



2. Phymosia cuspidata (A. Gray) Britton. 

 Sharo-fruited Globe-Mallow. Fig. 2866. 



Sida stellata Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2 : 171. 1827. 



Not Cav. 1802. 

 Sphaeralcea stellata T. & G Fl. N. A. i : 228. 1838. 

 Sphaeralcea angustifotia var. cuspidata A. Gray, Proc. 



Am. Acad. 22: 293. 1887. 

 Sphaeralcea cuspidata Britton, in Britt. & Brown, 111. 



Fl. 3: 519 1898. 



Perennial, densely stellate-canescent ; stems 

 rather stout, simple, or somewhat branched, leafy, 

 i°-4° high. Leaves lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, 

 or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, or acutish, firm, 

 crenulate, the lower with petioles as long as the 

 blade, the others short-petioled, the larger 2'-4' 

 long, V-i' wide, sometimes hastately lobed toward 

 the base; flowers red, 6"-io" broad, clustered in 

 the axils, short-pedicelled; carpels 1-3-seeded, 

 cuspidate, the tip often deciduous, wrinkled on 

 the sides, stellate-canescent, or glabrate. 



Kansas to Texas, Colorado, Arizona and Mexico. April-Aug. 



9. MODIOLA Moench, Meth. 619. 1794. 



A prostrate or ascending herb, often rooting from the nodes, with palmately cleft or 

 divided leaves, and small axillary peduncled red to purple flowers. Bracts of the involucre 3, 

 distinct. Calyx S-cleft. Stamen-column anther-bearing at the apex. Cavities of the ovary 

 00, 2-3-ovuled. Style-branches stigmatic at the summit; carpels 15-20, septate between the 

 seeds, dehiscent into 2 valves with awn-pointed tips, and cristate on the back. [Latin, from 

 the likeness of the fruit to the small Roman measure, modiolus.] 



A monotypic genus of warm and temperate America and South Africa. 



