Eaton High School Herbarium Specimen Book

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Eaton High School Herbarium. 
Plant Description 
No. ___				Date  May 21st  1896 
Collector  Edith Hart. 
Family (ORDER)  Malvaceae 
Scientific  Malva Rotundifolia. 
Name { 
Common  Low Mallow or Button weed. 
Locality  Eaton.		Habitat  Waste places. 
Plant  Herb, exogen, perennial. 
Root  Tap root. 
Stem  Prostrate, pubescent, branching. 
Branches  Few. 
Leaves  Reniform, palmately net veined. 
Insertion  Alternate. 
Petiole  Long. 
Lamina  Crenate, pubescent, five to seven lobed. 
Appendages  Linear. 
Inflorescence  Axillary. 
Flower  Perfect, complete, regular, unsymmetrical. 
Calyx  Inferior, gamosepalous, three linear appendages. 
Sepals  Five, united at base, green, pubescent. 
Corolla  White striped with pink, inferior, polypetalous. 
Petals  Five, emarginate, obcordate. 
Stamens  Many, monodelphous. 
Filament  United. 
Anther  Reniform, extrorse. 
Pistils  Many, syngenesious. 
Ovary  One, seeded, many. 
Style  United. 
Stigma  Many, linear, purple. 
Fruit  Button shaped, carpels, separating when ripe. 
Seeds  Many. 
Remarks:  Blooms May to September. 
Carpels are mucilaginous, calyx persistent.