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Napaea dioica L. Glade-mallow. 
Stems and leaves glabrous, or nearly so, leaves 5-9 lobed, lobes 
ineisely cut and acute, leaf blades 8-20 inches wide, 4-10 inches 
long; flowers white, diecious. Defiance, Clark, Madison, Franklin, 
Fairfield and Highland Co. 
ABUTILON Gaertn. 
Ours annual herbs, soft pubescent with cordate leaves; in- 
volucre none; carpels usually 10-15 united, each cavity 3-9 
ovuled, dehiscent at maturity. 
Abutilon abutilon (L.) Rusby. Velvet-leaf. 
Annual, stout, 6 feet high, densely velvety pubescent; leaves 
long petioled, cordate, orbicular, dentate or nearly entire; blades 
3-9 inches wide, 3-9 inches long. General and abundant. 
HIBISCUS L. 
Herbs or shrubs with dentate or lobed leaves and showy 
campanulate flowers. Bracts of the involucre numerous and 
narrow; gynecium of 5 united carpels, ovulary 5-loeular with 
3 or more ovules in each cavity, capsule 5-valved. 
1. Leaves lobed. 2. 
1. Leaves deeply divided. H. trionum. 
2. Leaves ovate, not prominently lobed, obtuse at the base; stem and 
lower surface of leaves pubescent. II. moscheutos. 
2. Leaves commonly halberd-form; three-lobed, truncate at the base; 
stem and leaves glabrous. II. mililaris. 
Hibiscus moscheutos L. Swamp Rose-mallow. 
Erect, leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, cordate or obtuse at 
the base, acute or acuminate at the apex, sometimes lobed at the 
middle, palmately veined, dentate or erenate, leaf blades 3^-4 
inches wide, 4-5^ inches long, petiole 2-2 inches long; flowers 
6 inches in diameter. Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Wayne, 
Licking, and Perry Co. 
Hibiscus militaris Cav. Halberd-leaf Rose-mallow. 
Erect, nearly glabrous, leaves ovate in outline, acute or acum- 
inate, cordate or truncate at the base, margins dentate-crenate, 
the lower or all of them hastately lobed, leaf blades 3j^ inches 
wide at the base, 33^-4 inches long, petioles 23^-3 inches long; 
flowers 23^2 inches in diameter; reddish pink in color. Lucas, 
Defiance, Paulding, Auglaize, Shelby, and Franklin Co. 
Hibiscus trionum L. Bladder Ketmia. 
Annual, pubescent; leaves ovate or orbicular in outline, 3-7 
lobed or divided, lobes obtuse, dentate-crenate or cleft, leaf blades 
1^2 inches wide, 1-2 inches long; fruiting calyx inflated, mem- 
branous, 5-winged. General. 
