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Rance: Western New Mexico and adjacent Arizona. 
New Mexico: Mangas Springs; Mogollon Mountains; Fierro; Fort Bayard; Hatchet 
Ranch. Mountains, in the Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 
10. Sphaeralcea cuspidata (A. Gray) Britton in Britt. & Brown, Illustr. Fl. 2: 
519. 1898. 
Sida stellata Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 2: 171. 1828, not Cav. 1790. 
Sphaeralcea stellata Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 228. 1838. 
Sphaeralcea angustifolia cuspidata A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 22: 293. 1887. 
Type Locauity: ‘Sources of the Arkansa.’’ 
Rance: Colorado and Kansas to Arizona, Texas, and adjacent Mexico. 
New Mexico: Cross L Ranch; Clayton; Hopkins Mill; Silver City; Mangas Springs; 
Dog Spring; mesa west of Organ Mountains; White Sands; Alamogordo; Gray; White 
Mountains; Las Vegas; Roswell; Albert; Deming; Carlsbad. Plains and low hills, 
often in cultivated ground, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
11. Sphaeralcea lobata Wooton, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 306. 1898. 
NIGGER WEED. YERBA DEL NEGRO. 
Sphaeralcea incana ? oblongifolia A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 2: 21. 1853. 
Sphaeralcea lobata perpallida Cockerell, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 87. 1900. 
Sphaeralcea fendleri lobata Cockerell, Entomologist 1900: 217. 1900. 
TypE LocALity: Mesilla, New Mexico. Type collected by Wooton (no. 2). 
Rance: Western Texas and New Mex‘co. 
New Mexico: Ojo Caliente; Santa Fe; Las Vegas; Albuquerque; Silver City; 
Kingston; Mesilla Valley; Hillsboro; White and Sacramento mountains. Open hills 
and in river valleys, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 
A common weed in the lower Rio Grande Valley in irrigated fields. It does not 
commonly exhibit much variation, but occasionally aberrant forms occur. The 
usual color of the flowers is orange or orange scarlet, but sometimes they are pale, 
almost white. On most plants the leaves are oblong with an inconspicuous rounded 
lobe on each side at the base, but we have abnormal forms in which the lobes are 
more numerous. In one plant noticed, the lateral lobes were extremely narrow, 
reduced almost to the midveins, with an enlarged portion near the apex. 
The typical form becomes almost a meter high and is erect, strict, and sparingly 
branched below, differing from the related S. fendlert which is much smaller and more 
branched. 
12. Sphaeralcea incana Torr. in A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 23. 1849. 
Type Locaity: “In New Mexico.” Type collected by Abert. 
Rance: New Mexico and Arizona to Chihuahua. 
New Mexico: Albuquerque; Laguna; Big Hatchet Mountains; San Luis Moun- 
tains; Organ Mountains; White Sands; west of Roswell; White Mountains; Guadalupe 
Mountains. Dry hills and plains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
13. Sphaeralcea tripartita Woot. & Standl. Bull. Torrey Club 36: 108. 1909. 
Tyre Locaity: Kingston, Sierra County, New Mexico. Type collected by Met- 
calfe (no. 1103). 
s Rance: Known only from type locality. 
14. Sphaeralcea fendleri A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 29. 1849. 
TypE LOCALITY: Fields and wet meadows, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Type collected 
by Fendler (no. 78). 
“Rance: New Mexico and Arizona. 
_/New Mexico: From the Las Vegas Mountains to the White Mountains and west- 
“ard across the State, in the mountains and foothills. Open slopes, in the Upper 
Sonoran and Transition zones. ~~ 
