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base and petiole) : flowers crowded and as if imbricated in a naked 

 and secund scorpioid spicifurm inflorescence : sepals round-reniform, 

 plane, at maturity fully 3 lines in diameter, white-scarious and rose- 

 tinged with greenish centre : petals comparatively large : style very 

 short: capsule oblong-oval, 10-20-seeded, not surpassing the fructiferous 

 sepals. — Lake Co., California, Torrey, Rattan. Doubtless this half- 

 Latin and half-Greek form of the name was an oversight ; but, us peta- 

 lum has a precarious lodgment in the Latin dictionary, it may pass. 



C. Parryi. Depressed, small-leaved : leaves (only half-inch long) 

 spatulate, or the rosulate radical ones cuneate-obovate with long taper- 

 ing base : spikes in age secund and scorpioid : fructiferous sepals or- 

 bicular or oval, less complanate, herbaceous with narrow white margin, 

 a line or two long, a little surpassed by the oblong capsule : style half 

 the length of the ovoid ovary. — Bear Valley and vicinity, in mountains 

 of San Bernardino Co., California, Parry (187G), Parish, 1885. 



* * Petals 2 or 3 : stamen one, between two petals : sepals moderately 

 accrescent, green and herbaceous with white-scarious margin : seeds 

 more turgid, obtuse-edged : inflorescence looser and more panicu- 

 late. 

 C. ROSEUM, Watson, Bot. King Exp. 44, t. 6, f. 6-8. So far as 

 known the flowers are dipetalous and monaudrous ; the capsule ovate- 

 oblong and covered by the calyx ; and the short style 2-parted. 



C. MONANDRUM, Nutt. The petals are oftener 3 ; the filament sub- 

 ulate ; the very short style undivided ; the mature capsule linear and 

 much exserted. 



Malvacece. 



The elaboration of this order for the Synoptical Flora of North 

 America brings out several {joints which need to be noticed. The 

 general lines of the arrangement proposed in Genera Fl. Am. Bor.-Or. 

 Illustrata are found to hold. But the tribe Malveoe must have its sub- 

 tribes reduced to two, allowing the Sidece to include all the genera 

 with capitate stigmas ; the number of ovules and seeds, whether one, 

 two, or three, being quite incidental and variable. The first division 

 of the Sidece will be characterized by the reniform seeds with incurved 

 embryo, at least the lower seed with inferior radicle {Malvastrum, 

 Spheeralcea, Meliphlea, Modiola) ; the second, by the turgid seeds 

 with more conduplicate embryo, the ovules when one or two resu- 

 pinate-pendulous and the radicle superior (Sida, Anoda, Wissadula, 

 Abutilon, &c.). 



