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pules setaceous; carpels 10-12, with 2 subuluic liorns. — Michx. ! jl.2. p. 

 43 ; Pitrsfi, fl. 2. p. 452; Kll. sk. 2. p. 1(51 ; JJC. prodr. 1. p. 4(32. 



Sandy soils, South Carolina {Elliott) and GtorjTia ! to Florida! May- 

 July — If Stem 1-2 feet high. Leaves 1-2 inches long, rather obtuse : 

 petioles 2-3 lines long. Peduncles mostly axillary, much longer than the 

 petioles, and sometimes longer than the leaves, articulated about half an inch 

 below the flower. Calyx angular ; segments very broad, with a short acu- 

 minatiou. Petals obovate, yellow, 4-5 lines long. 



♦ ♦ ♦ Leaves cordate, not lobed. 



8. (Sf. Hulseana : stem hi<5pidly pilose ; leaves orbicular-ovate, abruptly 

 acuminate, tomentose beneath with a whitish velvety pubescence, roughish- 

 tomentose above, crenate-dentate; peduncles axillary in the upper leaves, 

 several-flowered ; styles about 12. 



Tampa Bay, Florida, Dr. Hulse ! — Leaves 3 inches or more in diameter ; 

 the sinus deep and closed. Flowers an inch and a half in diameter, pur- 

 pUsh: pedicels very short. Petals broadly obovate. — We have not seen the 

 capsules of this species. It may belong to the genus Abutilon. 



9. iS. ? obliqua (Nutt. mss.) : leaves reniform-cordate, very obliqne at the 

 base, rounded at the summit, scabrous-tomentose, strongly reticulately veined 

 beneath, crenulatc-dentate; peduncles axillary, solitary, 1-flowered, recurved 

 after flowering ; bracteoles 2, setaceous ; petals oblong, stellately hairy ex- 

 ternally ; carpels 7, pointless. 



On the Wallawallah River, Nuttall! — li Stem low, clothed with a 

 roughish stellate pubescence. Leaves 1-li inch wide, the width exceeding 

 the length : petioles nearly as long as the lamina. Flowers as large as in 

 Malva rotundifolia. Peduncles rather shorter than the leaves. Calyx cleft 

 below the middle, with 2 short deciduous bracteoles at the base. Styles 

 united below: stigmas capitellate. Carpels pubescent, rather acute, but not 

 horned. — Mr. Nuttall considered this plant a Malva; but finding the seeds 

 to have the radicle superior, we refer it to Sida, notwithstanding the bracteo- 

 late calyx. 



10. S. Californica (Nutt. ! mss.) : velvety-tomentose ; leaves orbicular- 

 cordate, laciniately toothed (scarcely lobed); the radical and lower cauhne 

 ones on very long petioles ; flowers in a terminal raceme : stamineal column 

 short, double ; the exterior 5-lobed, antheriferous at the summit ; styles about 

 7 ; stigmas long, simple. 



St. Barbara, Upper California, Nuttall! — If About 15 inches high. 

 Leaves li inch in diameter; the uppermost slightly 5-lobed. Stipules subu- 

 late, small. Raceme naked : flowers on short pedicels, about 1^ inch in di- 

 ameter. Calyx cleft below the middle ; segments ovate-lanceolate. Petals 

 purple, cuneate-obovate, somewhat emarginate. Stamineal column ^ the 

 length of the petals. Capsules not seen. 



* * * * Leaves palmalely lobed or many-cleft. 



11. <S. Napcea (Cav.): leaves palmately 5-lobed, nearly glabrous; the 

 lobes oblong, acuminate, toothed; peduncles many-flowered; carpels llf, 

 acuminate. DC— Cav. diss. 5. p. 277. t. 132./ 1; Pursh, fl. 2. p. 453; 

 DC. prodr. 1. p. 466. Napgea laevis, Limi. ; Lam. ill. t. 579./ 1. 



Shady rocky places, Pennsylvania (Midilenherg) to Virginia, Pursh. 

 (v. V. in hort.) Julv. — l(. Stem 2-4 feet high glabrous. Leaves 4-5 

 inches in diameter, minutely pubescent, but not scabrous ; lobes unequally 

 and coarsely toothed, the middle one longest. Peduncles axillary in the 

 uppermost leaves and at the summit of the branches, 2-4 flowered. Seg- 

 ments of the calyx roundish-ovate. Petals obovate, white, twice as long as 



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