. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 624 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS cultivation, as are some species of the genus Abutilon and the poppy mallow {Callirhoe involucrata and C. triangulata'). Chorisia of eastern South America furnishes a soft fiber. The seeds of Pachira macrocarpa indigenous to Brazil contain a valuable oil resembling that found in cacao; kapok oil is obtained from the seeds of Briodendron anfractu- osum. Musk seed is obtained from Hibiscus abelmoschus of
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 624 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS cultivation, as are some species of the genus Abutilon and the poppy mallow {Callirhoe involucrata and C. triangulata'). Chorisia of eastern South America furnishes a soft fiber. The seeds of Pachira macrocarpa indigenous to Brazil contain a valuable oil resembling that found in cacao; kapok oil is obtained from the seeds of Briodendron anfractu- osum. Musk seed is obtained from Hibiscus abelmoschus of the East Indies and is used in perfumery. The Malva moschata of Europe produces a similar odorous product. The cheeses or dwarf mallow (Af. rotundifolia) is a trouble- some weed in gardens, waste places and barnyards. Saponin is found in the roots of Sida jamaicensis and Hibiscus Sabdariffa. The Sida paniculata is used as an anthelmintic. The ripe capsules of Queensland hemp {Sida rhombifolia) causes the death of fowls that feed on Fig. 352. Dwarf Mallow (Malva rotundifolia'). (After Fitch.) Key for Malvaceae Flowers involucrate. Flowers small; seed solitary and not covered with cotton 2 Malvastrum. Flowers large; seed covered with cotton 1 Gossypium. Flowers not involucrate 3 Abutilon. Gossypium I<. Cotton Herbs, shrubs, or rarely trees from 2-10 feet high; leaves alternate, palmately veined, and lobed, stipulate; involucre of 3 heart-shaped leaf-like bracts; flowers large, regular, white or whitish; sepals 5; petals S; stamens numerous; anthers borne along the outside of the tube of the filaments; ovaries 3-S-celled, as many as the cells of the pod; seeds numerous bearing cotton. The description of one species only is given below, the Sea Island cotton {), cultivated in Florida and along the Gulf Coast. Tree Cotton G. arboreum is cultivated in the tropics. The fiber is long, silky and an inch or more in length. But little is produced, its use being restric
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