. 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. I. Modiola caroliniana (L.) G. Don. fruited Mallow. Fig. 2867. Maha caroliniana L. Sp. PI. 688. 1753- Modiola miiltifida Moench, Meth. 620. 1791. Modiola caroliniana G. Don, Gen. Hist. PI. i: 466. 1831. Annual or biennial, more or less pubescent, freely branching; stems slender, 6'-i8' long. Leaves nearly orbicular in outline, i'-2i' wide, petioled, pedate!y3-5-cleft,
. 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. I. Modiola caroliniana (L.) G. Don. fruited Mallow. Fig. 2867. Maha caroliniana L. Sp. PI. 688. 1753- Modiola miiltifida Moench, Meth. 620. 1791. Modiola caroliniana G. Don, Gen. Hist. PI. i: 466. 1831. Annual or biennial, more or less pubescent, freely branching; stems slender, 6'-i8' long. Leaves nearly orbicular in outline, i'-2i' wide, petioled, pedate!y3-5-cleft, the lobes dentate or incised; leaves sometimes simply dentate; flowers axillary, solitary, j"-j" broad; peduncles at length elongated, slender; petals obovate; fruit depressed-orbicular, the carpels hispid-aristate along the back. In low grounds, Virginia to Florida, west to Texas, and in Central and South America and the West Indies. The same species apparently occurs in South Africa. Summer. 10. KOSTELETZKYA Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2: 130. pi. 70. it Perennial, scabrous or pubescent herbs or shrubs, with hastate or angular leaves, and showy, axillary or paniculate flowers. Bractlets of the involucels several, linear. Calyx 5-toothed or 5-cleft. Stamen-column entire, or s-toothed at the summit, anther-bearing below for nearly its entire length. Ovary 5-celled, the cells l-ovuled; style-branches of the same number, stigmatic at the capitate summits. Capsule depressed, 5-angled. Seeds reni- form, ascending. [Named in honor of V. F, Kosteletzky, a botanist of Bohemia.] About 8 species, natives of warm and temperate .•Vmerica. In addition to the following, another occurs in the southwestern United States. Type species: Kostcletzkya haslata Presl. I. Kosteletzkya virgmica (L.) A. Gray. Virginia Kosteletzkya. Fig. 2868. Hibiscus I'irginicus L. Sp. PI. 697. 1753. K. lirginica A. Gray, Gen. 2: 80. t. 132. 1849. K. virginica var. althaeifolia Chapm. Fl. S. States 57- i860. A',
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