. 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. Genus 6. MALLOW FAMILY. 4. Sida hederacea Torr. Round-leaved Sida. Fig. 2863. Sida hederacea Torr.; A Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. 4: 23. 1849. Malva hederacea Dougl.; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 107. 1830. Perennial, decumbent, densely stellate-canes- cent. Leaves reniform to broadly ovate, in- equilateral, 2' wide or less; flowers solitary or few together in the axils, the
. 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. Genus 6. MALLOW FAMILY. 4. Sida hederacea Torr. Round-leaved Sida. Fig. 2863. Sida hederacea Torr.; A Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. 4: 23. 1849. Malva hederacea Dougl.; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 107. 1830. Perennial, decumbent, densely stellate-canes- cent. Leaves reniform to broadly ovate, in- equilateral, 2' wide or less; flowers solitary or few together in the axils, the peduncles recurved in fruit; petals white or yellowish; calyx S-angled, its lobes ovate-lanceolate, acu- minate; fruit short, conic, of 6 to 10 carpels. In moist, often saline soil, Kansas to Texas, Mexico, Wyoming, Washington and California. 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 5-00, 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. AbutilonAbutilon (L.) Rusby. Vel- vet Leaf. Indian Mallow. Fig. 2864. Sida Abutilon L. Sp. PI. 685. 1753. Abutilon Theophrasti Medic. Malv. 28. 1787. Abutilon Avicennae Gaertn. Fruct. et Sem. 2 : 251. pi. 135- 1791- A. Abutilon Rusby. Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 222. 1894. Annual, stout, 3°-6° high, branched, densely and fine
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