80 Eastrwoop: SOME NEW SPECIES OF CALIFORNIAN PLANTS 
Sidalcea rostrata 
Perennial from a rather short horizontal rootstock which is 
generally conspicuously verrucose with the old axillary buds: 
stem erect, 3 to 4 dm. high, sparingly hispid with simple forked ° 
or stellate spreading or irregularly appressed hairs, obtusely 
angled: leaves strongly nerved, pubescence as on the stem but ; — 
‘more abundant, especially on the petioles; radical leaves orbicu-| 
lar reniform, 5 cm. broad, crenate with every alternate sinus deeper, 
, on ribbed petioles 6 to 15 cm. long; cauline leaves similar in out- 
line, on shorter petioles, diminishing upwards, 7-lobed, the lobes 
again lobed or deeply crenate-dentate ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, 
5 mm. long, soon deciduous : inflorescence racemose-spicate, of i 
/ about 16 flowers: lower bracts 5-parted into lanceolate divisions, , 
surpassing the calyx, upper ones becoming more simple and 
smaller, not equalling the calyx : pedicels 5 to 10 mm. Jong: calyx 
open-campanulate, deeply parted into 5 deltoid-acuminate divisions _ 
about 1 cm. long, densely hispid externally with conspicuous 
-spréading hairs, tomentose within at the apex and along the mat-_ 
gin : petals rose-purple, obovate, 2.2 cm. long, 1.8 cm. wide, gla- 
brous, veiny, densely ciliate at base above the broad short claw, — 
deeply emarginate or cordate at apex with margin somewhat 
erose : stamineal column double, hispid: phalanges distinct, the : 
outer less divided than the inner: anthers dark purple, papillose : 
carpels (immature) 8, sparingly pubescent, conspicuously rostrate 
with the yellowish beak densely hispid. : 
This was collected by H. E. Brown near Mendocino, Cali- 
fornia, June, 1898 (no. 815). C 
Type in the herbarium of the California Academy of Science — 
This species belongs to the group of closely allied specie? 
where Sidalcea malvaeflora Moc. & Sess., is found. The cafpe™— 
are, however, quite unlike those of any other species of the grouP 
and would be sufficient to mark it as distinct were it not for the” 
other characteristic features. 
Stachys flaccida : 
Perennial, from running rootstocks: stems stout, hollow, ere 
about 10 dm. high, nearly glabrous below except for the pustula 
retrorse bristles on the four prominent angles: leaves ovary 
cordate, acute at apex, crenate, thin and flaccid, 10-13 cm. long 
5-8 cm. wide, woolly pubescent on the lower surface with ae 
larly appressed iridescent, fine white hairs, the pubescence oF 
upper surface more regularly appressed but less dense; Pe 
