234 MALVACEAE. Sida. 



the calyx. Carpels nearly glabrous. — We have seen no native specimens of 

 this plant ; but it is not uncommon in gardens. 



12. S.dioica (Cav.) : leaves palmately 7-lobed, scabrous; lobes lanceo- 

 late, incisely toothed; peduncles many-Howered, bracteate, somewhat corym- 

 bose; flowers dioecious ; carpels 10, pointless. DC. — Cav. diss. 5. p. 278. t. 

 132. /. 2 ; Pursh.Jl. 2. p. 453 ; DC. prodr. 1. p. 465. Napaa dioica & sea- 

 bra, Linn. 



In Virginia, Linnceus: Pennsylvania, Muhlenberg. — H Leaves 7-9 

 lobed. Flowers crowded into heads ; the fertile ones with abortive stamens. 

 Carpels 8-10, in a depressed roundish head. IVilld. — We have never seen 

 this species. 



13. S. alccBoides (Michx.) : erect, herbaceous ; lower leaves triangular- 

 cordate, incised ; upper ones palmately many-cleft ; corymb terminal ; calyx 

 hispid. Mich.r. ! Jl. 2. p. 44 ; DC. prodr. 1. p. 474. 



Barren oak-lands, Tennessee and Kentucky, Michaux ! — Peduncles 3-6- 

 flowered. Flowers about 1^ inch in diameter. — This species has, as Mi- 

 chaux remarks, the habit of Malva Alcea or M. moschata. The fruit is 

 unknown. 



14. S. malvcejiora (DC.) : radical leaves roundish, 9-lobed, truncate at 

 the base; those of the stem 5-parted; segments linear, somewhat toothed; 

 petioles of the lower leaves hispid; raceme terminal; segments of the calyx 

 lanceolate, with a long acumination, carpels 7, pointless. — DC. prodr. 1. p. 

 474 ; Lindl. hot. reg. t. 1036 ; Hook.Ji. Bar.- Am. 1. p. 108. 



Plains of the Wahlamet and Umptqua Rivers, and on the N. W. Coast ! — 

 Stem 1-2 feet high. Leaves 3-4 inches in diameter, hirsute ; the lobes of 

 the uppermost ones nearly or quite entire. Racemes many-flowered : pedi- 

 cels at first shorter, at length longer, than the subulate bracts. Segments of 

 the calyx twice as long as broad. Petals purplish. Stamineal column some- 

 what double ; the filaments at the summit of the exterior one approximated 

 in pairs. Styles free at the summit : stigmas simple. Carpels oblong, acute, 

 but not mucronate. 



15. S. Oregana (Nutt. ! mss.) : stem nearly glabrous ; radical leaves 

 7-lobed, the lobes incisely 3-toothed ; those of the stem palmately 7-parted ; 

 the segments 3-lobed and incised, linear-lanceolate; segments of the calyx 

 broadly ovate ; raceme terminal ; styles 8. 



West side of the Rocky Mountains, Nuttall! — About 18 inches high. 

 Radical leaves on very long petioles ; cauhne ones parted nearly to the base ; 

 the segments acute. Flowers numerous in a long raceme, nearly an inch in 

 diameter, reddish-purple. Calyx about one-fourth the length of the corolla. 

 Filaments of the stamineal column in a double series near the summit : outer 

 series 5-lobed; each lobe composed of six united filaments. Styles uncon- 

 nected the greater part of their length, hairy on the inner surface : stigmas 

 simple. Fruit not seen. — Nearly allied to the preceding ; but differs in the 

 more divided leaves, smaller flowers, shorter and broader lobes of the calyx, 

 &c, 



16. iS. diploscypha : hispid with spreading hairs; stem prostrate; leaves 

 digitately 5-parted ; segments narrowly 2-3-lobed ; petiole twice as long as 

 the lamina ; flowers aggregated at the summit of the branches ; bracts 3, 

 long, filiform, at the base of the pedicels; calyx deeply 5-parted ; stamineal 

 column cyathiform, double ; the exterior deeply 5-lobed, the lobes antherife- 

 rous at the summit ; styles 7-9. 



California, Douglas .' — Upper part of the stem retrorsely hirsute. Leaves 

 1-2 inches in diameter, stellately pubescent. Flowering branches longer 

 than the leaves, bearing at the summit 6-10 flowers as large as those ot 

 Malva sylvestris. Pedicels 2-4 lines long, with villous bracteoles at the 



