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ous, clustered ; styles 3, distinct, erect ; capsules tricarpcUary. — Stems J-2° 
high ; leaves f long, very obtuse ; sepals, petals, and anthers dotted with l)lack ; 
placentae united to the middle. From Washington Territory and California 
to Colorado, New Mexico, and Sonora. Banks of mountain streams through 
Nevada and Utah ; 6-8,000 feet altitude ; June-September. (189.) 
Hypericum mutilum, L. (!) From Canada to Lake Winnipeg, and south- 
ward to Florida, Arkansas, and Texas. A single specimen that perhaps 
belongs to this species was collected in the East Humboldt Mountains at an 
elevation of 9,000 feet ; apparently annual ; stem 3' high, simple, quadrangu- 
lar, 2-3-flowered ; sepals broadly oval, obtuse, 1 J" long, equahng or exceeding 
the oval petals ; stamens about 18, distinct ; capsule 1-celled, with 3 strictly 
parietal placentae, exceeding the calyx: black dots none. (190.) 
MALVACEiE. 
SiDALCEA^ MALViEFLORA, Gray. {Sida^ DC.) Glabrous or somewhat his- 
pid ; lower leaves roundish, more or less deeply 7-9 lobed, the cauline more 
narrowly and deeply 5-7 lobed ; segments somewhat toothed ; raceme termi- • 
nal ; calyx tomentose, the lobes ovate, acute, or acuminate ; styles 7-8. — 
Stem 1-3° high, simple ; radical leaves sometimes scarcely lobed, segments 
of the cauline often linear and entire ; flowers variable in size, 1-2' in diam- 
eter, occasionally white. From Washington Territory to Southern Cah- 
fornia, Sonora, New Mexico, and Colorado. Meadows and stream banks 
through Nevada and Utah; 6,000 feet altitude; June-September. The 
large-flowered form has the petals emarginate, shghtly obhque, and the outer 
stamineal phalanges considerably longer than the inner. (191.) 
Var. With smaller flowers, petals (3-6" long) more obhque, the inner 
phalanges equaling or exceeding the outer. (192.) 
Var. With sterile flowers, the petals nearly aborted and glandularly 
ciliate. (193.) 
SiDALCEA CANDIDA, Gray. Plant. Fendl., p. 2 4. Stem and petioles spar- 
ingly hairy ; lower leaves orbicular, 7-lobed, smooth, ciliate, segments coarsely 
3-5-toothed; upper leaves 7-lobed, (the floral ones 3-5-lobed,) segments 
' SIDALCEA, Gray. Bractlets none. Calyx 5-cleft. Stamineal column double at top, the outer 
of 5, and the inner of 10 plialanges of stamens. Ovary-cells 5-9, 1-ovuled ; styles fdiform, stigmatose on 
the inner tsiufaec. Carpi ls membranous, beakless, indchiscent, separating from the short axis. Seed 
ascending.— IVreimial litrbs, with rounded, mostly lobed or parted leaves, and flowers in a narrow ter- 
minal raceme or spike. Bkntii. tit Hook. 
