418 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
3. SIDALCEA A. Gray. 
Tall perennial herbs, 1 meter high or less, with rounded, palmately lobed or 
dissected leaves and showy flowers in elongated, terminal, simple or paniculate, 
bracted racemes; basal leaves often merely coarsely crenate, the upper deeply lobed; 
flowers large, 2 cm. long or more, purple or white; calyx 5-cleft, without bracts; 
carpels 5 to 9, 1-seeded, not beaked, indehiscent. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Flowers cream-colored; inflorescence and calyx densely stellate- 
pubescent. ... 2.2.2... 2.22222 e eee eee eee eee eee 1. S. candida. 
Flowers purple; inflorescence and calyx hirsute................ 2. S. neomezicana. 
1. Sidalcea candida A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 24. 1849. 
Sidalcea candida tincta Cockerell, Bot. Gaz. 29: 280. 1900. 
Type Locaity: Along Santa Fe Creek, New Mexico. Type collected by Fendler 
(no. 80). 
Rance: Wyoming and Utah to New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Sandia Mountains; White and 
Sacramento mountains; Chama. Wet ground, in the Transition and Canadian zones. 
The type of S. candida tincta was collected by Cockerell at Harveys Ranch. It is 
a common form in which the corolla is tinged with pink. 
2. Sidalcea neomexicana A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 23. 1849. 
Type LocaLiry: Moist meadows, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Type collected by Fend- 
ler (no. 79). 
RanGE: Wyoming and Utah to New Mexico and southern California. 
New Mexico: Chama; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Kingston; Mangas 
Springs; Mogollon Mountains; Las Huertas Canyon; Ramah; White Mountains. 
Wet ground, in the Transition Zone. 
4, CALLIRRHOE Nutt. 
Perennial herbs with long thick roots; leaves alternate, petiolate, lobed or clett; 
flowers showy, axillary; petals purple; carpels 10 to 20, 1-celled, 1-seeded, beaked 
when mature, forming a disklike fruit about the axis. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Calyx subtended by 3 bracts.....-.-----.2 2222-222 eee eee eee eee 1. C. involucrata, 
Calyx naked 2... 2.2... ee eee eee ee eee ee ec eee eee 2. C. alcaeoides. 
1. Callirrhoe involucrata (Torr. & Gray) A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 
16. 1849. 
Malva involucrata Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 226. 1838. 
A common weed in gardens and cultivated ground. 
Type Locauity: “ Valley of the Loup Fork of the Platte.’ 
Rance: Utah and Minnesota to Texas and northeastern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Sierra Grande; Perico Creek. Plains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
2. Callirrhoe alcaeoides (Michx.) A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 18. 1849. 
Sida alcacoides Michx. F1. Bor. Amer. 2: 44. 1803. 
Tyrer Locauity: “Hab. in glareosis Kentucky et Tennessee.” 
Rance: Nebraska and Kansas to New Mexico and Texas. 
New Mexico: Las Vegas (Porter). Plains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone, 
