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pidly pubescent : stem 1 — 3 feet high, mostly simple, leaves 

 orbicular, the lowest deeply cleft, the upper digitately 5 — 9- 

 parted: segments linear, entire, acute: spike usually short 

 and dense : calyx-lobes acuminate : carpels strongly reticu- 

 late, hispid above.— PI. Fendl. 20. Bot. Cal. I. 84. 

 Common in the Sacramento Valley. 



S. tenella, Greene. 



Rough -puberulent, or nearly glabrous, glaucescent; slen- 

 der and branching, about a foot high: leaves small, the low- 

 est orbicular, 5 — 7-lobed, the upper digitately parted; seg- 

 ments linear, entire; purple flowers in numerous short ra- 

 cemes: calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate: carpels not hairy, 

 rugose- or alveolate-roughened. — Bull. Cal. Acad. I. 7. 



Common in the foothills skirting the Sacramento Valley; 

 first collected by Mr. Elisha Brooks, and later by Mrs. Aus- 

 tin, Mrs. Curran and the writer. Near the preceding spe- 

 cies, but smaller, more slender, and freely branching; inflo- 

 rescence and fruit lacking the hispid pubescence, but fre- 

 quently the whole plant roughened and glaucous. 



S, sulcata, Curran in herb. 



Glabrous below, sparsely hirsute above, especially on 

 calyx and pedicels; about 2 feet high, sparingly branching: 

 foliage as in the preceding species: calyx-lobes ovate-lance- 

 olate, abruptly acuminate : corolla small, light purple: car- 

 pels evenly reticulate on the sides, the back striately so, or 

 else (by disappearance of the reticulation), longitudinally 

 about 7-sulcate. 



Collected near Folsom in May, and on Sweetwater Creek, 

 El Dorado County, in June, 1884, by Mrs. Curran. 



S. diploscypha, Gray. 



Pubescent with long, spreading hairs; a foot or two high: 

 leaves deeply 5 — 9-cleft, with sharply lobed segments: flow- 

 ers in umbellate clusters, their pedicels subtended by 5 — 7- 



