38 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLAN'gS. 



3. ItlON'TIA, L. 

 M. fonta'na, L. A small, spreading, somewhat fleshy 

 herb, with opposite, spathulate leaves. Sepals 2. Petals 5, 

 three of them somewhat smaller. Stamens usually 3, borne 

 on the claws of the smaller petals. Pod 3-valved and 3- 

 seeded. — Wet places, Atl. Prov. 



Order XVni. MALVA'CE^ffi. (Mallow Family.) 

 Herbs, with palmately-veined alternate stipulate leaves. 

 Flowers regular. Calyx valvate. Corolla convolute in the 

 bud. Sepals 6, united at the base, Petals 5, hypogynous. 

 Stamens numerous, monadelphous, hypogynous ; anthers 1- 

 celled. Carpels united in a ring, separating after ripening. 

 Seeds kidney-shaped. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 



1. IHalvn. Carpels without beaks, l-seeded. A circle of 3 braotlets at 



the base of the calyx. Stigmas occupying the inner face of the 

 style. ' 



2. Dlalvas'trnin. Carpels without beaks, l-seeded. Involncel of 3 



bractlets, or none. Stigmas terminal, capitate. Low hoary herbs. 



3. Abn'tllon. Carpels 2-beaked, l-6-3eeded. No circle of bractlets. 



4. llibis'ciLS. Column of stamens naked and 5-toothed at the apex. 



Pod 5-ceUed, many-seeded. Involucel of many bractlets. 



1. IHALVA, L. Mallow. 



1. M. rotundifo'lia, L. (Eound-leavbd Mallow.) Stems 

 several, procumbent, from a stout tap-root. Leaves long- 

 petioled, round-heart-shaped, crenate, crenately - lobed. 

 Petals obcordate, whitish, streaked with purple, twice as 

 long as the sepals. — Waysides and cultivated fields. 



2. M. sylves'tris, L. (High M.) Stem erect, 2 feet high. 

 Leaves sharply S—7-lobed, Petals purple, 3 times as long as 

 the sepals. — Near dwellings. 



3. M. cris'pa, L. (Curled M.) Atallerect annual, with 

 round and angled toothed and crisped leaves, and small 

 sessile flowers crowded in the axils. — ^Escaped from old 

 gardens. 



4. M. moscha'ta, L. (Musk M.) Stem erect, 1 foot high. 

 Stem leaves 5-parted, the divisions cleft. Flowers large and 



