MALLOW FAMILY. MALVACEAE.
Fig 128. [Indian Mallow. American Jute. Velvet Leaf. Abutilon Theophrasti] Medic. Abutilon Abutilon (L.) Rusby.
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Indian Mallow. American Jute. Velvet Leaf. Abutilon Theophrasti Medic. Abutilon Abutilon (L.) Rusby. Flowers yellow; seeds brown, flattened, 3.5–4 mm. long, ovoid excepting a piece cut from one side of the smaller end with 3–4 curved rows of minute slender objects on each side, the raphe extending from the pointed end to the notch on one side (half anatropous). Naturalized from northern Asia.
Fig 129. [Bladder Ketmia. Hibiscus Trionum] L.
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Bladder Ketmia. Hibiscus Trionum L. Seed brown, the surface dotted with numerous, ragged, light-colored pimples. Think of the shape as obovoid, and then bent somewhat to the side. As now found the seed is triangular in outline with rounded corners, considerably thinned toward one corner near which is the seed scar in the midst of a depression. Each side of the triangle is about 2 mm. long. Introduced from Europe. Not yet a prominent weed in Michigan.
