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POPULAR FLOEA. 



{Napma) Glade-Mallow, 



{Sfida) SiDA. 

 {Abidlhm) Indias-Mallow. 



Involucel or outer calyx none. 



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

 Flowers perfect. Cells of the pod 5 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. I'od of 3 to 6 

 cells, and splitting into as many valves. 

 Involucel of many thread-shaped leaves. 



Calyx splitting dow!i 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) * Okba. 



(Bibiscus) Hiniscus. 



( Gossi/piura) * CoTTu^•• 



317. Slnmens of Mallow «nit."(1 in a (ul-e (moniididlphoiis). 318. An nnlher more m.Tgniliefl. 319. Flowe.a and leaf of 

 Mui-ah-Mall.'W. 320. lis compound pislil magnifiiid. ai.1. Pod of Hibiscussuiiounded by the calyx and involu- 

 cel. 3i2. The pod apliuing into 5 vulveb. 



Slallow. Malta. 

 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. rotundifoUa. 



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



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. vioschaia. 



4. Cukled M. Stem 4^ to C'' high ; leaves round, toothed, much curled around the edge ; flow- 



ers small, white, sessile in the axils. Gardens. M. cnspa. 



Hibiscus. Hibiscus. 

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

 down one side. Stjimens in a long and slender column. Stigmas 5. Pod short, 6-celled, splitting 

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

 shrubs : flowering in autumn. 



