. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. MALVACE^—GERANIACE^ 341 A. Btri&tum, Dicks. Flowering maple. Fig. 4ol. Shrub: leaves 3-5- lobed, green: flowers drooping, on long solitary axillary peduncles, bell- shaped, veiny-orange or red. Brazil. A conservatory and house plant. A. Thbrnpsoni, Hon. Spotted flowering maple. Like 1 last, but the leaves spotted veith yellow, arid the column stamens strongly projecting from the flower. Common in cultivation. A. Avic6nn8B, Gaertn. Velvet leaf. Indian mallow. Stout annual, 3 or 4 ft., densely pubescent: flowers yellow, erect, on peduncles sh
. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. MALVACE^—GERANIACE^ 341 A. Btri&tum, Dicks. Flowering maple. Fig. 4ol. Shrub: leaves 3-5- lobed, green: flowers drooping, on long solitary axillary peduncles, bell- shaped, veiny-orange or red. Brazil. A conservatory and house plant. A. Thbrnpsoni, Hon. Spotted flowering maple. Like 1 last, but the leaves spotted veith yellow, arid the column stamens strongly projecting from the flower. Common in cultivation. A. Avic6nn8B, Gaertn. Velvet leaf. Indian mallow. Stout annual, 3 or 4 ft., densely pubescent: flowers yellow, erect, on peduncles shorter than the long petioles: leaves large, roundish heart-shaped, taper - pointed, and velvety: calyx 461. 5-cleft: carpels 12-15, united, pubescent, beaked, 2-valve with 3-9 seeds in each cell. August to October. Weed, from Asia. 4. HIBISCUS. Rose Mallow. Herbs or shrubs, with an involucre of many narrow bracts: stamen- column anther-bearing most of its length: styles, 5, united: pod 5-loculed, loculicidal: flowers large and showy. H. Syrlacus, Linn. AltJiea of cultivated grounds. Hose of Sharon. Shrub 10 ft.: leaves wedge-ovate and 3-lobed: flowers showy, in various colors, in the leaf-axils in summer and fall, often double. Asia. XXV. GERANIACE^. Geranium Family. Herbs, chiefly with simple leaves: flowers perfect, in most genera nearly regular (but sometimes very irregular), 5-merous : stamens as many or twice as many as the sepals, hypogynous: ovary single, the locules usually as many as the sepals: fruit capsular. A most diverse family, often divided into several. There are about 20 genera and 700 species. Common examples are geranium, pelargonium, nasturtium, balsam, jewel-weed or touch-me-not, oxalis. A. Flowers regular or very nearly so. B. Leaves simple (often deeply lobed). C. Anther-bearing stamens 10 1. Geranium CO. Anther-bearing stamens about 7 2. Pelargonium BB. Leaves compound 3. Oxalis AA. Flowers very irregular. B. Flower with one very long spur 4. Tropceol
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