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POPULAR FLORA. 
Involucel or outer calyx none. 
Flowers dioecious, small, white. Pods or cells one-seeded, ( Napcea ) Glade-Mallow. 
Flowers perfect. Cells of the pod 5 to 15. 
Seed only one in each cell. Flowers yellow or white, ( Sida ) Sida. 
Seeds 2 to 9 in each of the cells, ( Abutilon ) Indian-Mallow. 
Anthers attached along the sides of the upper part of the slender column. Pod of 3 to 5 
cells, and splitting into as many valves. 
Involucel of many thread-shaped leaves. « 
Calyx splitting down one side when the flower opens. Pod long, ( AbelmdscTius ) * Okra. 
Calyx not splitting down one side. Pod short. Seeds naked, ( Hibiscus) Hibiscus. 
Involucel of 3 heart-shaped toothed leaves. Seeds bearing wool, ( Gossypiurn) * Cotton. 
317 320 318 319 322 321 
317, Stamens of Mallow united in a tube (monadelphous). 318. An anther more magnified. 319. Flowers and leaf of 
Marsh-Mallow. 320. Its compound pistil magnified. 321. Pod of Hibiscus surrounded by the calyx and involu¬ 
cel. 322. The pod splitting into 5 valves. 
Mallow. Malva. 
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. rotundifolia. 
2. High M. Stem 3° high; leaves lobed; flowers large, rose-purple. Gardens. M. sylvestris. 
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. moschata. 
4. Curled M. Stem 4° to 6° high ; leaves round, toothed, much curled around the edge ; flow¬ 
ers small,white, sessile in the axils. Gardens. M. crispa. 
Hibiscus. Eibiscus. 
Flowers large, with an involucel of many narrow bractlets, and a 5-cleft calyx, which does not open 
down one side. Stamens in a long and slender column. Stigmas 5. Pod short, 5-celled, splitting 
when ripe into 5 valves, many-seeded; the seeds smooth or hairy, not long-woolly. Showy herbs or 
shrubs: flowering in autumn. 
