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POPULAR FLORA. 



(Najma) Glade-Mallow. 



(Sida) Sid A. 

 (Ahutihn) Indian-Mallow. 



InToIucel or outer calyx none. 



Flowers dicecious, small, white. Pods or cells one-seeded, 

 Flowers perfect. Cells of the pod 6 to 15. 



Seed only one in each cell. Flowers yellow or white, 

 Seeds 2 to 9 in each of the cells. 

 Anthers attached along the sides of the upper part of the slender column. Pod of 3 to 6 

 cells, and splitting into as many valves. 

 Involucel of many thread-shaped leaves. 



Calyx splitting down one side when the flower opens. Pod long. 

 Calyx not splitting down one side. Pod short. Seeds naked, 

 Involucel of 3 heart-shaped toothed leaves. Seeds bearing wool, 



(Abelmdschus) * Okea. 



(Hibiscus) Hibiscus. 



( Gossypium) * Cotton- 



317. Slamensof M.-iHow unifd in a luhe (monHdelphous). 318. An anlhermore magniliert. 319. Flowers and leaf of 

 MarBh-Malluw. 350. Ita compounj pislil magnified. 3^1. Pod of Hiluscuaaurrountled by the calvx and involu- 

 cel. 322. The pod Bplming into 6 salves. 



Mallow. Mdlva. 

 Involucel or outer calyx 3-leaved. Petals notched at the upper and broader end. Styles many. 

 Little pods or cells many in a ring around a narrow axis or column {the whole shaped like a cheese), 

 when ripe falling away separately, each one-seeded. — Herbs ; flowering all summer. 



1. Low Mallow. Root very long ; stems spreading on the ground ; leaves round-kidney-shaped, 

 long-stalked, scarcely lobed, crenate; flowers several in the axils, small, whitish. Very common 

 weed in waste and cultivated ground. M, rotundifblia. 



2- High M. Stem 3° high; leaves lobed; flowers large, rose-purple. Gardens. M. sylvesti'is. 



3. Musk M. Stem 2° high; leaves 5-parted and the divisions cut into linear lobes (the smell faintly 



musky); flowers large, rose-color. Gardens. M. moscMta. 



4. CuKLED M. Stem 4° to 6° high ; leaves round, toothed, much curled around the edge ; flow- 



ers small, white, sessile in tlie axils. Gardens. M. crispa. 



Hibiscus. Hibiscus. 

 Flowers large, with an involucel of many narrow bractlets, and a 5-cleft calyx, which does not open 

 down one side. Stamens in a long and slender column. Stigmas 5. Pod short, 5-celled, splitting 

 when ripe into 5 valves, many-seeded; the seeds smooth or hairy, not long-woolly. Showy herbs or 

 shrubs : flowering in autumn. 



