. 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 102nd meridian. Botany. Sida hederacea Torr. 4: 23. 1849. Malva hederacea Dougl. 107. 1830. Perennial, decumbent, densely stellate-cancs- cent. Leaves reniform to broadly ovate, in- equilateral, 2' wide o» less; flowers solitary or few^ together in the , the peduncles recurved in fruit; petals white or yellowish; 5-angled, its lobes ovale-lanceolate, acu- minate; fruit short, co
. 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 102nd meridian. Botany. Sida hederacea Torr. 4: 23. 1849. Malva hederacea Dougl. 107. 1830. Perennial, decumbent, densely stellate-cancs- cent. Leaves reniform to broadly ovate, in- equilateral, 2' wide o» less; flowers solitary or few^ together in the , the peduncles recurved in fruit; petals white or yellowish; 5-angled, its lobes ovale-lanceolate, acu- minate; fruit short, conic, of 6 to 10 carpels. , Wyoming, Washington and Caliiornia. 7. ABUTILON [Tourn.] Mill Card. Diet. Abr. Ed. 4. 1754. Herbs or shrubs, sometimes trees in tropical countries, mostly soft-pubescent, with cordate angular or lobed leaves and axillary flow- ers. Involucels none. Calyx s-cleft. Stamen- column anther bearing at the apex. Cavities of the ovary 5-=^, 3-9-ovuled. Style-branches the same number as the ovary-cavities, stigmatic at the apex; carpels 2-valved, often rostrate, falling away from the axis at maturity. Seeds more or less reniform, the upper ascending, the lower pendulous or horizontal. [Name given by the celebrated Arabian physician Avi- cenna (.Ibn Sina), died 1037.] About 100 species, natives of warm and tropical regions of both hemispheres. In addition to the following typical one, some 15 others inhabit the southern and southwestern parts of the United States. I. Abutilon Abutilon (L.) Rusby. Vel- vet Leaf. Indian Mallow. Fig. 2864. Sida Abulilou L. Sp. PI. 685. 1753. Abutilon Thcot^lirasli Medic. Malv. 28. 1787. Abutilon Avicennae Gaertn. Fruct. et Sem. 2: 251. /•/. I S3- 1791- A. Abutilon Rusby. Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 222. 1894- Annual, stout, 3°-6° high, branched, densely and finely velvety-pubescent. Leaves^ long- petioled, cordate, ovate-orbicular, 4'-l2' wide, dentate, or nearly entire, acuminnte, the tip blunt; flowers yellow, 6"-9"
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