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HIBISCUS moscheiitos.
Musky Swamp Hibiscus.
Natural Order. M a l v a c e æ . DC. p ro d r .l. p. 4.29.
H IB IS C U S . Supra fol. 277. ^ ^
Sect. V I . A BELMOSCHUS . Carpella polysperma. Semina glabra
aut in dorso lineâ subyillosâ. Corollæ expansæ. Involucella foliolis
8-15 integris constantia.
§. 2. Caule inermi. ** Species perennes.
H . moscheutos, caule erecto glabriusculo, foliis ovatis acuminatis supra
medium serratis ; inferioribus subtrilobis 5-nervibus subtùs cano-
tomentosis, petiolis pedunculisque inter se coalitis, involucellis ca-
lycibusque tomentosis, laciniis calycinis acuminatis, capsulis glabris.
Hibiscus moscheutos. lin n . spec. 975. Cavan, diss. 3. t. 65. f . 1.
Pursh. f l . amer. sept. 2. p. 455. DC. Prodr. 1. p. 450. Spreng.
syst. 3. p . 104. Swt. hort. brit.p. 51.
0 purpureus. Hibiscus palustris. Botan. magaz. 882.
Root perennial, producing several stenis from the
ground. Stems erect, simple, 3 to 4 feet high, smooth
and glossy, b u t thinly clothed with bunches of short
hairs when young, nearly cylindrical, or slightly angular
on the upper part. Leaves alternate, ovate, tapering
to a long slender point, toothed with short bluntish^
teeth from above the middle, from thence to the base
entire, the point also entire, 5-nerved from the base, the
upper’side smooth, and of a light green on the old leaves,
th e young ones thinly clothed with little bunches of
short hairs, underneath clothed with a short dense
white tomentum: lower leaves broadest, and more or
less 3-lobed, the side lobes short and acute: upper
leaves not lobed, and becoming gradually narrower up wards.
Petioles nearly cylindrical, or bu t slightly flattened
on the upper side, smooth and glossy, bu t thinly
clothed with the little bunches of short hairs. Peduncles
1-flowered, cylindrical, also clothed with fascicles of
short hairs : the lower ones longest and axillary, upper
ones connected into one with the lower part of the petioles
close to where they are jointed. Flowers large,
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