. 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. 520 MALVACEAE. About 100 species, natives of the warmer parts ot . Besides the following, some 20 others occur in the souther States. Type species : Sida alnifolia L. Leaves linear, ovate or oblong, serrate Leaves ovate or oblong-lanceolate; flowers 2"-4" broad Leaves linear or linear-oblong ; flowers 6"-i2" broad. Leaves palmately 3-7-lobed. Glabr


. 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. 520 MALVACEAE. About 100 species, natives of the warmer parts ot . Besides the following, some 20 others occur in the souther States. Type species : Sida alnifolia L. Leaves linear, ovate or oblong, serrate Leaves ovate or oblong-lanceolate; flowers 2"-4" broad Leaves linear or linear-oblong ; flowers 6"-i2" broad. Leaves palmately 3-7-lobed. Glabrous or nearly so. tall; flowers in terminal panicles. Densely stellate-canescent, low ; flowers Sida spinosa L. Prickly Sida. Indian or False Mallow. Fig. 2860. Sida spinosa L. Sp. PL 683. 1753. Annual, erect, branching, linely and softly pu- bescent, i°-2° high. Leaves ovate to oblong- lanceolate, 1-2' long, 5"-io" wide, petioled, obtuse or acute, truncate or cordate at the base, crenate-dentate; flowers , short-peduncled, yellow, 2"-4" broad; peduncles shorter than the petioles; calyx-teeth triangular, acute; carpels S, dehiscent at the apex into 2 beaks ; stipules linear; petioles of the larger leaves with a small spine- like tubercle at the base. In waste places, Maine to New Jersey, I Michigan. Kansas. Florida and Texas, and w: tributed in tropical America. Supposed by be naturalized at the north, but it occurs Jersey as if native. Summer. owa and dely dis- some to in New Elliott's Sida. Fig. 286 2. Sida Elliottii T. & G. Sida Elliottii T. & G. Fl. N- A. i: 231. 1838. Perennial, glabrous or nearly so, branching. Leaves short-petioled, linear or linear-oblong. high. long, 2"-2i" wide, mostly obtuse at each end. serrate-dentate; peduncles i-flowered, often longer than the petioles; flowers axillary, j'ellow, 6"-i2" broad, calyx-teeth broadly ovate, acute; carpels 8-10, dehiscent at the apex, slightly and


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