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reticulate on the angles, the back usually smooth, beak stout, obtuse, somewhat reflexed, hispid- 

 tipped. 



Mountain meadows. Arid Transition Zone; eastern Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming southward through Ne- 

 vada and Utah to Coahuila and Durango. Type locality: Las Playas, New Mexico. May-Aug. 



Sidalcea neo-mexicana var. parviflora (Greene) Roush, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 18: 186. 1931. (Sidalcea 

 parviftora Greene, Erythea 1: 148. 1893.) Differs from the species in being less pubescent and more glaucous 

 throughout, having thicker leaves, smaller, less conspicuous bracts, more stellate calyces and pedicels, and more 

 erect, narrower beak. Subalkaline soil from southern Monterey County (Jolon) to eastern San Bernardino 

 County, California. Type locality: Santa Monica, Los Angeles County. 



Sidalcea neo-mexicana var. Covillei (Greene) Roush, op. cit. 187. Differing from the preceding in being 

 sparsely stellate-pubescent and less glaucous throughout; pedicels and calyx-lobes more densely stellate-puberu- 

 lent, devoid of coarse, simple hairs; beaks of the carpels broader, obtuse, recurved. In the vicinity of Lone Pine, 

 Inyo County, California. Type locality: Haiwee Meadows. 



19. Sidalcea multifida Greene. Cut-leaved Sidalcea. Fig. 3214. 



Sidalcea multifida Greene, Cyb. Columb. 1 : 34. 1914. 



Cespitose perennial 2-5 dm. tall, from a woody root, pale glaucous and stellate-puberulent 

 throughout. Leaves 1-5 cm. broad, 5-7-parted into 2-7-lobed cuneate segments, the lobes linear 

 to oblong, segments of upper leaves sometimes entire ; stipules linear-lanceolate, 5-8 mm. long ; 

 inflorescence few-flowered, racemose, minutely stellate-puberulent ; bracts ovate, bidentate or 

 bifid, equaling the pedicels ; calyx densely stellate-puberulent, the lobes narrowly triangular- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, about 2 mm. wide, 4—6 mm. long, purplish ; petals deep rose-purple, 14-20 

 mm. long, erosulate, retuse; carpels about 2.5 mm. high, delicately reticulate on the sides, smooth 

 or nearly so on the back, sparsely and minutely puberulent ; beaks small, 0.5 mm. or less high, 

 erect. 



Dry foothills and alkaline flats, Arid Transition Zone; Klamath County, Oregon, to Lander County, Nevada. 

 Type locality: foothills near Reno, Nevada. May-July. 



20. Sidalcea campestris Greene. Meadow Sidalcea. Fig. 3215. 



Sidalcea campestris Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1 : 76. 1885. 



Sidalcea asplenifolia Greene, Pittonia 3: 158. 1897. 



Sidalcea sylvestris A. Nels. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 20: 36. 1907. 



Stout perennial 0.5-2 m. tall, hirsute at base, stellate-puberulent above. Leaves orbicular, 

 5-20 cm. broad, the lower 7-9-lobed, the lobes 2-5-dentate ; upper leaves divided into 3-9 linear 

 or cuneate, entire or pinnatifid segments; petioles 10-20 cm. long, hirsute; inflorescence densely 

 racemose, stellate-puberulent ; calyx-lobes deltoid, 3-4 mm. broad, 4-6 mm. long, stellate-puberu- 

 lent, hirsute on the nerves and margins ; petals 1 . 5-2 cm. long, obovate, deeply emarginate, rose- 

 purple to nearly white; carpels 3.5 mm. high, lightly rugose-reticulate, furrowed on the back, 

 puberulent, beak slightly recurved, weak. 



Grassy pastures and hillsides, Humid Transition Zone; confined to the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Type 

 locality: vicinity of Multnomah, Oregon. May-July. 



21. Sidalcea Hickmanii Greene. Hickman's Sidalcea. Fig. 3216. 



Sidalcea Hickmanii Greene, Pittonia 1: 139. 1887. 



Suffruticose perennial from a woody root, stems procumbent to erect, leafy and densely 

 stellate-pubescent throughout. Leaves flabelliform to reniform-orbicular, 1.5-4 cm. broad, crenate 

 to shallowly lobed ; petioles stout, 0.5-2 cm. long; stipules 3-5 mm. long, linear to ovate- 

 lanceolate ; inflorescence loosely racemose, few-flowered ; bracts narrowly linear to lanceolate, 

 4-6 mm. long, ciliate ; bracteoles 3, similar to the bracts ; pedicels 2-3 mm. long ; calyx deeply 

 divided, 6-8 mm. long, the lobes deltoid, abruptly acute or acuminate ; petals rose-purple, about 

 5-6 mm. long, in pistillate flowers, paler and 10-15 mm. long in perfect flowers, obovate, slightly 

 emarginate ; stamineal column very short ; carpels glabrous, smooth except for a few transverse 

 wrinkles on the angles. 



Hillsides, Upper Sonoran Zone; Big Carson Ridge, Marin County, and the Santa Lucia Mountains, Mon- 

 terey County, California. Type locality : Reliz Canyon, Monterey County. May-July. 



Sidalcea Hickmanii var. Parishii Robinson in A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1^: 307. 1897. Similar to 

 the species but with larger, broader bracts, less leafy stems and congested spiciform inflorescence. On burns 

 and meadows. Transition Zone; San Bernardino Mountains, California. Type locality: western slopes of the 

 San Bernardino Mountains. 



22. Sidalcea malachroides (Hook. & Arn.) A. Gray, Maple-leaved Sidalcea. 



Fig. 3217. 



Malva malachroides Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey 326. 1840. 

 Sidalcea malachroides A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 332. 1868. 

 Sidalcea vitifolia A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 332. 1868. 

 Hesperalcea malachroides Greene, Pittonia 2: 301. 1892. 



Erect leafy perennial 1-2 m. high, pubescent throughout with soft, simple hairs and few- 

 rayed stellate hairs. Leaves vitiform, palmately 3-7-lobed, 2-15 cm. broad, coarsely dentate; 

 stipules 2>-7 mm. long, lanceolate, membranous ; inflorescence densely spicate-paniculate ; bractlets 

 linear, simple or bifid, 6-9 mm. long, ciliate ; calyx stellate-pubescent, the lobes narrowly ovate- 

 lanceolate, 6-12 mm. long, acuminate, membranous and strongly veined when mature ; petals 



