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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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was supposed that moths wouldnot go near the plant, and it was quite a general custom inNew England to pack these plants or flowers with clothingor furs in order to keep out moths. The stamens are simi-lar to those of the great mullein, except the filaments aretufted with violet hairs. The flowers are yellow or white,on long, loose racemes. The erect, slender stem is usuallyabout two feet in height, and as a rule there are no leavespresent at the flowering time. C. S. Raddin. THE MALLOWS* A number of interesting plants are found grouped underthe name of the Mallow family. They are the commonmallow, a weed of waysides and cultivated grounds; theIndian Mallow or Velvet-leaf, with its large, velvety leavesand yellow flowers, a visitor from India, which has escapedfrom cultivation and become a pest in corn and grain fieldsand waste places; the Musk Mallow, which has also escapedfrom our gardens; the Marsh-Mallow, the root of whichabounds in a mucilage that is extensively used in the manu-
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SWAMP ROSE-MALLOW. (Hibiscus Moscheutos). FROM NATURES GARDEN COl^yRIGHT 1900, BYOueLEOAY, PAGE ± COMPANY FLOWERS 93 facture of confections; the Hollyhock of our gardens, whichwas originally a native of China, and the beautiful Rose-Mallow of our illustration. The mallow family includes about eight hundred specieswhich are widely distributed in the temperate and tropicalcountries. All are herbs. Most of those found in the United Stateshave been introduced from Europe and Asia. Only a veryfew are native, and no one of these is very common. The flowers and fruits are all similar in structure to thatof the common hollyhock. The disk-like fruits of the common round-leafed mallowof our door-yards are often called cheeses by the childrenand are frequently gathered and eaten by them. The cottonplant, one of our most important economic plants, is alsoclosely related to the mallow. The cotton of commerce isthe woolly hair of the seeds of this plant, which is a nativeof nearly all tropical cou

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