146. 
MALVACEAE 
1. Salt marsh habitat; flowers white or pink-violet; 
carpels 5. 
2. Flowers 8-12 cm. broad; petals white with red 
bases; leaves broadly ovate, 3-lobed, felt- 
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2. Flowers 6-8 cm. broad; petals roseate; leaves 
cordate-ovate; stellate-puberulent..............+.. Kosteletzkya 
1. Roadside habitat; flowers yellow-orange; carpels 
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Hibiscus palustris L., forma 
peckii House Rose Mallow 
Java Farm and Ivy Neck. Moderately abundant at shoreward margins 
of wet salt marshes and marshy estuaries. Associate species: Typha 
latifolia, T. angustifolia, Kosteletzkya virginica, Iva frutescens, 
Baccharis halimifolia, Panicum virgatum, etc. Grows just seaward 
of the Smilax rotundifolia zone. Higman 78. 
Kosteletzkya 
Kosteletzkya virginica (i). Bresl. Seashore Mallow 
Java Farm and Ivy Neck. Moderately abundant in same habitat 
as Hibiscus palustris above. Higman 57, 281. 
Abutilon 
Abutilon theophrasti Medic. Velvet-leaf 
Ivy Neck. One station: border of cornfield beside old barn south 
of artificial pond, near source of Cheston Creek. Hectare 4723. 
Associate species: Datura stramonium, Plantago major, Eleusine indica, 
and Polygonum persicaria. Higman 1000. 
GUTTIFERAE 
1. Sepals 4, in 2 unequal pairs; petals 4................ Ascyrum 
L. Sepalispo ye petalisy 5 mrenere screens POWs ovccccceccsceccccsccese Hypericum 
Ascyrum hypericoides Le St. Andrew's Cross 
Ivy Neck. One station: abandoned road near southern border of 
central mixed hardwood forest, Scaffold Peninsula. Canopy of Quercus 
alba, Quercus velutina, Fagus grandifolia, etc. Higman 968. 
