72 • MALLOW FAMILY. 



flowers IJ' in diameter, the petala pale rose-color or white, striped with ilark 

 purple or violet veins. ® , 



M. sylv6stris, High M. Gardens and roadsides ; 2° - 3° high, branch- 

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

 snialler.than in the last ; fruit wrinkled-veiny. ® 11 



M. Aleea. 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 

 sho^Yy flowers in clusters or terminal racemes ; corolla deep rose-color, ij'- 2' 

 broad ; fruit smooth, minutely wrinkled-veiny. % 



M. mosch&ta, Musk M. Gardens, and escaped to roadsides, l°-2o 

 high, rather hairy, with , the herbage faintly mustseented, leaves about tlirice 

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

 clustered or racemed ; corolla Ij' 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. 



» Rootihick, often turnip-shaped, farinaceous: stems roughish-hairy or snwttthish. 1} 



C. triangul^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, 1 ° - 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. Papiver. 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 ratlfer heart-shaped and cleft into oblong lobes ; 

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

 corolla 2' or more broad ; carpels of the fruit wrinkled or reticulated and with 

 a stout incurved beak. 



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

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

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

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



» * Hoot slender or tapering : herbage smooth. (T) ® 

 C. pedkta. Wild in E. Texas ; not rare cult. ; stem erect, I°-5° high, 

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

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

 IJ' 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. ISAFMA, GLADE-MALLOW. (From Greek name for jWe or nym;)A 

 of the groves.) Only one species, 



N. dioica. In valleys, chiefly in limestons districts of Penn., Virginia, 

 and W. A rather coarse, roughish herb; stem 4° -7° liigh ; leaves 9-1'- 

 parted and their lobes cut and toothed, the lowest often 1° indiameter ; flowers 

 small, in panicled corymbs, in summer. 



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

 Texas, &c., sparingly cult, for ornament. Stems, &c. hiriiute: 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 falls 

 aw&y with the seed it embraces, the sides or partitions disappearing, (j) 

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



only 1 ' - 1^ ' in diameter ; lobes of the calyx ovate, scai-cely pointed. « 



