. 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 . Malvastrum coccineum (Pursh) A. Gray. Red False Mallow. Fig. 2859. Malva coccinea Nutt. in Fraser's Cat. Name only. Cristaria coccinea Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 454. 1814. M. coccineum A. Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. (II.) 4: 5 5i3- 1848. Perennial, erect or ascending, 4-10' high, freely branched, densely and silvery stellate-pubescent. Lower leaves 1-2' wide, ovate-orbicular in outline,
. 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 . Malvastrum coccineum (Pursh) A. Gray. Red False Mallow. Fig. 2859. Malva coccinea Nutt. in Fraser's Cat. Name only. Cristaria coccinea Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 454. 1814. M. coccineum A. Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. (II.) 4: 5 5i3- 1848. Perennial, erect or ascending, 4-10' high, freely branched, densely and silvery stellate-pubescent. Lower leaves 1-2' wide, ovate-orbicular in outline, slender- petioled, the uppermost nearly sessile, all pedately 3-5- parted; lobes cuneate to linear, incised, mainly obtuse; flowers red, 6"-g" broad, in dense short terminal spicate racemes; bractlets of the involucels commonly none; petals much longer than the lanceolate acutish calyx- lobes ; carpels 10-15, rugose-reticulated, indehiscent, i-seeded (rarely 2-seeded). Prairies and plains, Iowa to North Dakota, Manitoba, Nebraska, Texas, British Columbia and New Mexico. Prai- rie-mallow. Moss-rose. May-.\ug. 6. SIDA L. Sp. PI. 683. 1753. Herbs, with serrate, crenale or lohed leaves, and solitary or clustered, axillary or ter- minal, perfect flowers, Bractlets of the involucels none. Calyx 5-toothcd or S-cleft. Stamen- column anther-bearing at the summit. Cells of the ovary 5-^0, i-ovuled; style-branches of the same number, stigmatic at the summit only. Carpels indehiscent, or at length 2-valved at the apex. Seed pendulous. [Greek, used by Theophrastus.]
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