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NEW SPECIES, PRINCIPALLY FROM MARIPOSA 

 COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. 



BY J. W. CONGDON. 



Sidalcea favosa. PereiiDial. Plant slender, decidedly hirsute. 

 Stems usually simple, often decumbent at base, somewhat leafy, 

 spicate at summit. Radical leaves orbicular, 1 iu. in diameter, with 

 10 or more shallow rounded lobes, often hardly more than crenate, 

 on petioles 3 to 5 in. long. Stem leaves smaller, more deeply 

 lobed, on petioles longer than themselves. Flowers purple, hardly 

 more than ^ in. in diameter. Calyx-tube shortly turbinate, the 

 longer teeth ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate varying even to 

 linear, tapering to a long point. Fruit strongly favose. 



Not rare in the high meadows of the central Sierra. 



Sidalcea montana. Perennial. Plant with a very close short 

 stellate pubescence but not hirsute or hispid. Stems slender, 1 to 

 2 feet high, nearly or quite erect, with very slender loosely spicate 

 branches. Leaves ^ to f in. in diameter, all divided to the base 

 into 3 to 5 cuneiform lobes which are entire or crenately toothed 

 but hardly lobed. Petioles longer than the leaves. Calyx-tube 

 shortly turbinate, with narrowly lanceolate, sharply tapering teeth 

 twice as long as the tube. Corolla about f in. in diameter, pink 

 purple. Carpels few, reticulate, each forming a regular section of a 

 flattened globular head, with the back rounded and deeply grooved, 

 tipped with a slender beak-like point. 



In granite sand, in the high Sierras east of the Minarets, at 

 11,000 feet. 



Ribes Mariposanum. A straggling shrub, 3 to 5 feet high, 

 vpith long, slender branches, which have few prickles. Leaves 

 about 1 in. in diameter, moderately 3 to 5 lobed, thin; their under 

 surface as well as the young shoots softly pubescent. Flowers very 

 large, f in. in diameter and fully 1 in. long, usually in pairs at the 

 bracted summit of a stout erect or ascending (rarely pendant) 

 peduncle 1|- to 2 in. long. Floral characters otherwise much as in 



Erythea, Vol. VII, No. 12, Part 2. [Issued June 20, 1900.] 



