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■i- i- Corolla spreading, bell-shaped; plant pubescent. 



++ Leaves lobed. 



A. Darwini, Hook. Densely velvety -pubescent ; leaves 5-9-ribbed, 

 lower palmately 5-7-lobed to the middle ; flowers 1-3 in the axils, dark 

 orange-red with blood-red veins. Brazil. 



*+ ++ Leaves not lobed. 



A. inslgne, Planch. Young branches and calyx reddish-brown with 

 stellate hairs; leaves broad, cordate, coarsely serrate, with prominent 

 veins ; flowers in axillary, few-flowered racemes, purplish-crimson with 

 darker veins. New Granada. 



9. MODIOL A. (The shape of the depressed fruit likened to the Roman 

 measure modiolus.) Procumbent or spreading, small -flowered, weedy 

 plants. 



M. multifida, Moench. Va. and S. , in low grounds ; leaves 3-7-cleft 

 and cut, or the earlier ones rounded and undivided ; flowers red, £' broad ; 

 fruit hairy at the top. ® % 



10. KOSTBLETZKYA. (For Kosteletzky, a Bohemian botanist.) 



K. Virginica, Gray. Virginian K. Roughish-hairy, 2°-5° high; 

 leaves heart-shaped or mostly 3-lobed, often halberd-shaped ; flowers (in 

 summer) somewhat racemed or panicled, rose-purple, 2' broad. Salt 

 marshes, K Y., S. 2/ 



11. HIBISCUS, ROSE MALLOW. (Ancient name, of obscure 

 origin.) Flowers showy, usually large, in summer and autumn. 



* Tall shrubs or even trees ; exotics. 



H. Syrtacus, Linn. Shrubby Alth^a. Leaves nearly smooth, wedge- 

 ovate, and 3-ldbed ; flowers short-peduncled in the axils, in autumn, about 

 3' broad, purple, rose-color, white, etc., often double. Levant ; common 

 in gardens and grounds. 



H. Rosa-Sinensis, Linn. Chinese H. or Rose op China. Very smooth ; 

 leaves bright green, ovate and pointed, somewhat toothed; flowers on 

 slender peduncles, very showy, 4' or 5' broad, scarlet-red (rarely rose- 

 purple or even white) , often double. Cult, in conservatories from China. 



* * Herbs, with persistent and regular, 6-lobed calyx, and a short pod. 



•i- Wild species, but sometimes cultivated ; tall and large. 2L 



++ Entirely glabrous. 



H. coocineus, Walt. Great Red H. or R. 4°-7° high ; leaves 5- 

 parted or deeply cleft into long, lanceolate and taper-pointed divisions ; 

 bright-red corolla 6'-ll' broad ; petals narrow below. Wild in swamps 

 near coast, Ga. and Fla. ; cult. 



H. militaris, Cav. ^Halberd-leaved R. 3°-4° high ; leaves ovate or 

 heart-shaped, toothed or 3-lobed, some of them halberd-shaped ; peduncles 

 slender ; calyx inflated ; corolla flesh-colored, 4'-5' broad. Penn. to Minn. 



++ ++ Leaves downy beneath, often also on top. 



H. aculeatus, Walt. Prickly R. In swamps, S. C, S. and W., has 

 the involucel leaves lobed, round-cordate 3-5-lobed leaves, hoary beneath, 

 yellow purple-centered flowers, and hispid stems. 



H. Moscheutos, Linn. Swamp R. 3°-7° high ; the ovate, pointed, 

 and often 3-lobed leaves hoary beneath, generally smooth above ; pedun- 



