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MALVACE^. 



Sidalcea malvaeflora Gray. Wild Hollyhock. 



Collected only in Strawberry Valley, where it is plentiful in 

 meadows. (Nos. 315, 739.) 



Sphaeralcea ambigua Gray. 



Common at lower altitudes on the south and east sides under 

 the influence of desert conditions, but ranging up to 4500 

 ft. alt. in Thomas Valley. Usually 2-3 ft. high, the flowers with 

 brick-red petals only a half- inch long and calyx 4 lines or less 

 long. (Nos. 751, 2148.) 



GUTTIFER^i:. 



Hypericum anagalloides G. d\ S. False Pimpernel. 



In moist soil almost throughout the Transition Zone, but not 

 common. (No. 659.) 



Hypericum formosum HBK. H. Scouleri Hook. St. pJohn's 



Wort. 



Confined to streams of the Lower Transition, where it is fairly 

 common. Not found in valleys opening upon the desert. (Nos. 

 665, 689, 973.) 



VIOLACE.^. 



Viola blanda Willd. White Violet. 



This species was found in nearly all the meadows of the 

 Canadian Zone, from which it rarely follows the creeks down 

 into the Upper Transition, m an exceptional case even to the 

 6000-foot contour. (Nos. 2239, 2404.) 



Viola purpurea pinetorum Greene, Fl. Fr. 243 (1891). V. 



pinetorum Greene, Pitt. ii. 14 (1889) and iii. 42 (1896). 



Rather common beneath pines of the south side below 6000 

 ft. alt. (No. 555.) 



STERCULIACE.^. 



Fremontia Californica Torr. Fremontodendron GaUfornicum 

 CoviLLE, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. iv. 74 (1893). 

 Collected at 5000-ft. alt. on Bull Creek, in the Upper Sonoran 



Zone, scarcely within our limits. (No. 958.) 



