. 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 . 5. Malva Alcea L. European or \'ervain ^Mallow. Fig. 2852. Malva Alcea L. Sp. PI. 6S9. 1753. Similar to the preceding species, but the stem-leaves are only once 5-7-parted or cleft, the lobes dentate or incised; pubescence shorter and denser, stellate; flowers pink, pur- plish or white; petals obcordate; carpels glabrous, very finely rugose-reticulated. In waste places, occa
. 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 . 5. Malva Alcea L. European or \'ervain ^Mallow. Fig. 2852. Malva Alcea L. Sp. PI. 6S9. 1753. Similar to the preceding species, but the stem-leaves are only once 5-7-parted or cleft, the lobes dentate or incised; pubescence shorter and denser, stellate; flowers pink, pur- plish or white; petals obcordate; carpels glabrous, very finely rugose-reticulated. In waste places, occasionally escaped from gardens, Ver- mont to Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania. Introduced from Europe. Summer. 3. CALLIRHOE Xiitt. Journ. Acad. Phil. 2: 181. 1821. |XuTT.\LLi.\ Barton. Fl. N. A. 2: 74. /â /. 6j. i8j2.] Herbs, with lobed or divided leaves, and showy axillary or terminal perfect flowers. Bractlets of the involucel 1-3, separate, or none. Calyx deeply 5-parted. Petals cuneate, truncate, often toothed or fimbriate. Stamen-column anther-bearing at the summit. Cavities of the ovary =0, l-ovuled; style-branches of the same number as the cells of the ovary, stig- matic along the inner side. Carpels (10-20), arranged in a circle, l-seeded, indehiscent or 2-valved, beaked at the apex, the beak separated from the cavity by a septum. Seed ascend- ing. [A Greek mythological name.] A genus of about 7 species, natives of the central and southern United States and northern Me Type species: Callirho'c digilata Xvi Bractlets of the involucels none. Flowers i' broad: carpels very pubescent. Flowers i !4'-2' broad ; carpels scarcely pubescent. Bractlets of the involucels 3. Leaves triangular, crenate : carpels not rugose. Leaves orbicular, palmatifid ; carpels rugose. I. Callirhoe alceoides (Michx.'l .\. Gray Light Poppy-^Iallow. Fig. 2853. Sida alceoides Michx. Fl. Bor. Am, 2: 44- 1803. Callirhoe alceoides A. Gray. Mem. \m. Acad. 18. 1848. Perennial, erect, 8-20' high, slender
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