1382. POPULAR FLORA. 
Involucel or outer calyx none. 
Flowers dicecious, small, white. Pods or cells one-seeded, (Napea) GuaSe-Matow. 
Flowers perfect. Cells of the pod 5 to 15. 3 
Seed only one in each cell. Flowers yellow or white, (Sida) Suwa. 
Seeds 2 to 9 in each of the cells, (Abitilon) Ixptan-MALLow. 
Anthers attached along the sides of the upper part of the slender column. Pod of 8 to5 
cells, and splitting into as many valves. 
Involucel of many thread-shaped leaves. 
Calyx splitting down one side when the flower opens. Pod long, (Abelméschus) * OKRA. 
Calyx not splitting down one side. Pod short. Seeds naked, (Hibiscus) Hrzrscus. 
Involucel of 8 heart-shaped toothed leaves. Seeds bearing wool, (Gossypium) * Corron. 
317, Stamens of Mallow united in a tube (monadelphous). 318. An anther more magnified. 319. Flowers and leaf of 
Marsh-Mallow, 320. ltscompound pistil magnified, 321, Pod of Hibiscus surrounded by the calyx and involu- 
cel, 322, The pod splitting into 6 valves, 
Mallow. Malva. 
Involucel or outer calyx 8-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 Martow. Root very long ; stems spreading ‘on the ground ; leaves round-kidney-shaped, 
long-stalked, scarcely Jobed, crenate; flowers several in the axils, small, whitish. Very common 
weed in waste and cultivated ground. MM. rotundifolia. 
2: Hicn M. Stem 8° high; leaves lobed; flowers large, rose-purple. Gardens. MM. sylvéstris. 
8. Musk M. Stem 2° high; leaves 5-parted and the divisions cut into linear lobes (the smell faintly 
musky); flowers large, rose-color. Gardens. AM. moschata. 
4. CuRLED M. Stem 4° to 6° high ; leaves round, toothed, much curled around the edge ; flow- 
ers small,white, sessile in the axils. Gardens. MM. 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. 
