622 FLORA 



celled; car]- date, the often deciduous, wrinkled on the 



sides. Kans. to Tex., Colo. Ariz, and Mex. April-Aug. 



9. MODI OLA Movnch. 



Prostrate or ascending herbs, with palmately cleft or divided leaves, and small 

 axillary pcdunclcd red flowers. Bracts of the involucre 3, distinct. Calyx 5-cleft. 

 Cavities of the ovary zc . 2 3-ovuled. Style-branches stigmatic at the summit; car- 

 pels 5-20, septate between the seeds, dehiscent into 2 valves with awn-pointed 

 tips, and aristate on the back. [Latin, from the likeness of the fruit to the small 

 Roman measure, modiolus.] A monotypic genus. 



1. Modiola Caroliniana (L.) Don. Bristly-fruited Mallow. (I. F. f. 

 2432.) Annual or biennial, more or less pubescent; stems 1.5-5 dm. long. Leaves 

 nearly orbicular. 1-6 cm. wide, petioled, 3-5-cleft, the lobes dentate or incised, 

 or sometimes simply dentate; flowers 6-10 mm. broad, red; peduncles at length 

 elongated; fruit depressed-orbicular. In low grounds, Va. to Fla., west to Tex. 

 and Cal., and in Cent, and S. Am. Summer. 



io. KOSTELETZKYA Presl. 



Perennial, scabrous or pubescent herbs or shrubs, with hastate or angular 

 leaves, and showy, axillary or paniculate flowers. Bractlets several, linear. 

 Calyx 5-toothed or 5-cleft. Stamen. column anther-bearing below for nearly its 

 entire length. Ovary 5-celled, the cavities I-ovuled; style-branches of the same 

 number, stigmatic at the capitate summits. Capsule depressed, 5- angled. Seeds 

 reniform, ascending. [Named in honor of V. F. Kosteletzky, a botanist of Bohe- 

 mia.] About 6 species, natives of warm and temperate America. In addition to 

 the following, 2 others occur in the southern U. S. 



1. Kosteletzkya Virginica (L.) A. Gray. Virginia Kosteletzkya. 

 (I.' F. f. 2433.) Erect, 6-12 dm. high, somewhat stellate-pubescent and scabrous. 

 Leaves ovate, or hastate, truncate or cordate at the base, 5-13 cm. long, unequally 

 dentate and often 3-lobed below, acute, not velvety-pubescent; flowers pink, 3-6 cm. 

 broad, in loose terminal leafy panicles; bractlets 8 or 9, linear, shorter than the 

 lanceolate acute calyx-segments; carpels 5, hispid-pubescent. In salt or brackish 

 marshes, N. Y. to Fla. and La. A form approaching A", althacifolia of the South- 

 ern States occurs in eastern Md. Aug. 



n. HIBISCUS L. (See Appendix.) 

 Herbs, shrubs, or in tropical regions even small trees, with dentate or lobed 

 leaves, and showy, mostly campanulate flowers. Bractlets numerous, narrow. 

 Calyx 5-cleft or 5-toothed. Column of stamens anther-bearing below along much 

 of its length. Ovary 5-celled, the cavities 3- several-ovuled ; style branches 5. stig- 

 matic at the capitate summit. Capsule 5-valved. Seeds reniform. [An ancient 

 name, used by Dioscorides for the Marsh Mallow.] About 180 species, widely 

 distributed. In addition to the following, about 14 others occur in the southern 

 and western U. S. 



Tall perennial herbs. 



Leaves white-pubescent beneath; seeds glabrous, or nearly so. 



Leaves glabrate, or stellate-hairy above; bractlets not ciliate. 1. H. Moscheutos. 



Leaves soft-hairy above ; bractlets ciliate. 2. //. lasiocarpus. 



Leaves glabrous on both sides; seeds hairy. 3. H. militaris. 



Low hairy annua] of waste places. 4- H> Ttionum. 



Tall woody shrub, escaped from gardens. 5- & Syriacus. 



1. Hibiscus Moscheutos L. Swamp Rosf.-mallow. Mallow Rose. 



(I. I. f. 2434..) Erect, 1-2.5 m. high, forming numerous cane-like stems. Leaves 



or orate lanceolate, 7 20 cm. long, cordate or obtuse at the base, acute or 



acuminate at the apex, sometimes lobed at the middle, palmately veined, dentate 



tte; flower i 2 dm. bio id, pink, or white, sometimes with a crimson centre, 



■1 on stoul pedicels at the summits of the stems; peduncles often adnate to 



the petioles; bractlets linear, not ciliate. shorter than the Calyx; capsule ovoid, 



2-3 cm. long, glabrous or sparingly pubescei jlabrous. In brackish 



1! 1. and I l., md on lake shore- and in saline situations locally 

 in the interior to YY. I >■ * Ug Sep!. 



