68 MALVACEiE. (mALLOW FAMILT.) 



1. A. Avic:enn^, Gsertn. (Veltbt-Leae.) Tall (4° high) ; leaves round- 

 ish-heart-shaped, taper-pointed, velrety ; peduncles shoi-ter than the leaf-stalks ; 

 corolla yellow ; pods 12-15, hairy, beaked. (J) — Waste places, escaped from 

 gardens. (Adv. from India.) 



7. MODtOLiA, Moeneh. Modiola. 



Calyx with a 3-leaved involucel. Petals ohovate. Stamens 10-20. Stig- 

 mas capitate. Cai-pels 14 - 20, kidney-shaped, pointed and at length 2-valved 

 at the top ; the cavity divided into two by a cross partition, with a single seed 

 in each cell. — Humble, procumbent or creeping annuals or biennials, with cut 

 leaves and small pui-plish flowers solitary in the axils. (Name from modiolus, 

 the broad and depressed fruit of combined cai-pels resembling in shape the Ro- 

 man measure of that name. ) 



1. M. multificla, Moeneh. Hairy; leaves 3-5-cleft and incised; sta- 

 mens 15 -20 ; frait hispid at the top. — Low grounds, Virginia and southward. 



8. KOSTEL.ETZKYA, Presl. Kosteletzkta. 



Pod depressed, with a single seed in each cell. Otherwise as Hibiscus. 

 (Named after Kosteletzky, a Bohemian botanist.) 



1. K. Tirginica, Presl. Eoughish-hairy (2° -4° high); leaves hal' 

 berd-shaped and heart-shaped ; the lower 3-lobed. IJ. (Hibiscus Virginicus, L.) 

 — Marshes on the coast, Long Island, New Jersey, and southward. Aug. —• 

 Corolla 2' wide, rose-color. Column slender. 



9. HIBISCTJS, L. Eose-Mallow. 



Calyx involucellate at the base by a row of numerous bractlets, persistent, 5- 

 cleft. Column of stamens long, bearing anthers for much of its length. Styles 

 united : stigmas 5, capitate. Fniit a 5-celled pod, opening into 5 valves which 

 bear the partition on their middle (loculicidal). Seeds sever'al or many in each 

 cell. — Herbs or shmbs, usually with large and showy flowers. (An old Greek 

 and Latin name of unknown meaning.) 



1. H. IWoscljetltos, L. (Swamp Eose-Mallow.) Leaves ovate, 

 pointed, toothed, the lower 3-lobed, whitened underneath with a fine soft down ; 

 the 1-flowered peduncles often united at the base with the petioles ; calyx not in- 

 flated; seeds smooth. IJ. — Borders of marshes along and neai- the coast, and 

 banks of large rivers. Salt springs, Salina, New York. Aug., Sept. — Plant 

 stout, 5° liigh. Corolla 5' in diameter, pale rose-purple, or white with a crim- 

 son eye, showy. 



2. H. militai'is, Cav. (Halberd-i,eAved Mallow.) Smooth, through- 

 out ; lower leaves ovate-heart-shaped, toothed, 3-lobed ; upper leaves halberd-form, 

 the short lateral lobes spreading at the base, the middle one prolonged and taper- 

 pointed; peduncles slender; fi-uitiry calyx inflated; seeds hairy. \ — Eiver- 

 banks, Penn., Ohio, and southward. Aug. — More slender and smaller-flow- 

 ered than the last : corolla pale rose-color. 



