102 MALVACEAE. (MALLOW FAMILY.) 



top; the cavity divided into two by a cross partition, with a single seed in each 

 cell. — Humble, procumbent or creeping annuals or biennials, with cut leaves 

 and small purplish flowers solitary in the axils. (Name from modiolus, the broad 

 and depressed fruit resembling in shape the Roman measure of that name.) 



1. M. multifida, Mcench. Hairy; leaves 3 - 5-cleft and incised ; stamens 

 1 5 - 20 ; fruit hispid at the top. — Low grounds, Virginia and southward. 



9. KOSTELETZKYA, Presl. Kosteletzkya. 



Pod depressed, with a single seed in each cell. Otherwise as Hibiscus. 

 (Named after V. F. Kosteletzky, a Bohemian botanist.) 



1. K. Virginica, Presl. Roughish-hairy perennial (2° -4° high) ; leaves 

 halberd-shaped and heart-shaped ; the lower 3-lobed. (Hibiscus Virginicus, L.) 

 — Marshes on the coast, New York to Virginia and southward. Aug. — Co- 

 rolla 2' wide, rose-color. Column slender. 



10. HIBISCUS, L. Rose-Mallow. 



Calyx involucellate at the base by a row of numerous bractlets, 5-cleft. Col- 

 umn of stamens long, bearing anthers fcr much of its length. Styles united : 

 stigmas 5, capitate. Fruit a 5-celled loculicidal pod. Seeds several or many in 

 each cell. — Herbs or shrubs, usually with large and showy flowers. (An old 

 Greek and Latin name of unknown meaning.) 



* Indigenous, tall perennials (4° -8°) flowering late in summer. 



1. H. MosehetltOS, L. (Swamp Rose-Mallow.) Leaves ovate, pointed, 

 toothed, the lower 3-lobed, whitened underneath with a fine soft down, glabrous 

 or slightly downy beneath ; the 1-flowered peduncles tcmetimes united at the 

 b.ise with the petioles; calyx not inflated; pod and seeds svioofh or nearly so. — 

 Brackish marshes along the coast, sometimes extending up rivers far beyond 

 die influence of salt Avater (as above Harrisburg, Perm.) : also Onondaga Lake, 

 N". Y., and westward, usually within the influence of salt springs. — Corolla 

 V-jB' in diameter, light rose-color or white, with or without a crimson eye. 



2. H. grandifldrus, Michx. Leaves soft-downy loth sides, the lower broadly 

 ovate and heart-shaped; pod very hirsute; seeds smooth; — otherwise resembling 

 the last. — Illinois (Lawrence Co., Fritchey) and southward. 



3. H. militaris, Cav. (Halberd-Leaved K.) Sn.ooth throughout ; lower 

 leaves ovate-heart-shaped, toothed, 3-lobed ; -upper leaves halbcrd-form, the short 

 lateral lobes spreading at the base, the middle one prolonged and taper-pointed ; 

 peduncles slender ; fruiting calyx inflated; seeds hairy. — River-banks, Penn. to 

 Illinois and southward. — Corolla 4' - 5' in diameter, flesh-color. 



* * Escaped from gardens or grounds. 



4. H. Tri6num, L. (Bladder Ketmia.) A low, rather hairy annual ; up- 

 per leaves 3-parted, with lanceolate divisions, the middle one much the longest; 

 fruiting calyx inflated, membranaceous, b-wing<d; corolla sulphur-yellow with a 

 blackish eye, ephemeral ; hence the name Flower-of-an-hour. (Adv. from Eu.) 



5. H. Syriacus, L. (Shrubby Altilea of the gardeners. ) Tall shrub, 

 smooth; leaves wedge-ovate, pointed, cut-toothed or lobed ; corolla usually rose- 

 color. — Roadsides and copses, Pennsylvania, &c. Sept. (Adv. from Eu.) 



