. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 5. Malva Alcea L. European or Vervain Mallow. Fig. 2852. Malva Alcea L. Sp. PI. 689. 1753. Similar to the preceding species, but the stem-leaves are only once S-7-parted or cleft, the lobes dentate or incised; pubescence shorter and denser, stellate; flowers pink, pur- plish or white; petals obcordate; carpels glabrous, very finely rugose-reticulated. In waste
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 5. Malva Alcea L. European or Vervain Mallow. Fig. 2852. Malva Alcea L. Sp. PI. 689. 1753. Similar to the preceding species, but the stem-leaves are only once S-7-parted or cleft, the lobes dentate or incised; pubescence shorter and denser, stellate; flowers pink, pur- plish or white; petals obcordate; carpels glabrous, very finely rugose-reticulated. In waste places, occasionally escaped from gardens, Ver- mont to Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania. Introduced from Europe. Summer. 3. CALLIRHOE Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phil. 2: 181. 1821. [NuTTALLiA Barton, El. N. A. 2: 74. pi. 62. 1822.] Herbs, with lobed or divided leaves, and showy axillary or terminal perfect flowers. Bractlets of the involucel 1-3, separate, or none. Calyx deeply 5-parted. Petals cuneate, truncate, often toothed or fimbriate. Stamen-column anther-bearing at the summit. Cavities of the ovary oo, i-ovuled; style-branches of the same number as the cells of the ovary, stig- matic along the inner side. Carpels o^ (10-20), arranged in a circle, i-seeded, indehiscent or 2-vaIved, beaked at the apex, the beak separated from the cavity by a septum. Seed ascend- ing. [A Greek mythological name.] A genus of about 7 species, natives of the central and southern United States and northern Mexico. Type species : Callirhoc digitata Nutt. Bractlets of the involucels none. Flowers i'broad ; carpels very pubescent. i, C. alceoides* Flowers i^'-2' broad; carpels scarcely pubescent. 2, C, digitata, Bractlets of the involucels 3. Leaves triangular, crenate ; carpels not rugose. 3. C. triangulaia. Leaves orbicular, palmatifid ; carpels rugose. 4. C. involucrata. I. Callirhoe alceoides (Michx.) A. Gray. Light Poppy-Mallow. Fig. 2853. Sida alceoides Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 44. 1803. Callirho
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