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1. S, (liploscypha, Gray, PI. Fendl. 19 (1849) & Gen. 111. ii. 58. t 

 120; T. & G. Fl. i. 234 (1838), under Slda. Erect, 1—2 ft. high, 

 paniculately branching, pilose-hirsute with long spreading hairs : leaves 

 long-petioled, rounded, the radical deeply crenate ; cauline 7-parted 

 with 2 — 3-cleft oblong segments : inflorescence umbellate, the umbels 

 many, at the ends of the branchlets, 3--5-flowered : fruiting calyx % in. 

 long, deeply cleft, the segments lanceolate, acuminate : corolla 1 in. long, 

 pale rose-color : achenes cochleate and nearly orbicular, scarcely a line 

 in diameter, reticulate-rugulose on the back. — Very common on hills and 

 in fields along the Mt. Diablo Range, both in the hills and ui>on the 

 plains adjacent. Mar. — May. 



2. S. secuudiflora. Pubescence and foliage as in the last, but plant 

 less branching, the flowers in terminal rather lax spicate racemes : 

 petals oblique, purple, with a very dark spot at base : achenes nearly 2 

 lines long, semiobcordate, strongly favose-reticulate. — Only less common 

 than the last ; often associated with it, and confused with it in the 

 herbaria, but never confluent with it ; and the specific characters appear 

 quite sufficient. It may possibly be the same as S. diplascypha, var. 

 minor (Gray, PI. Fendl.) ; but there is nothing in the description of that 

 variety to indicate it. 



3. S. Hartwegi, Gray in Benth. PL Hartw. 300 (1849) ; PI. Fendl. 20: 

 <S. ieuella, Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. i. 7 (1884). Erect, with slender 

 ascending branches, 1 — 2 ft. high ; branchlets, pedicels and calyx short- 

 pubescent : lower leaves 5-parted, the lobes linear-cuneiform, entire or 

 trifid, of the upper linear, entire : fl. }4 in. long or more, rose-purple : 

 outer phalanges of stamens narrow, closely approximate to the inner : 

 achenes a line long, strongly incurved, the favose reticulation elongated. — 

 Common in the foot-hills from Butte Co. to Calaveras, perhaps farther 

 southward ; also on the plains adjacent. Mixed with the next in the 

 " Botany of California," and the present writer, mistaught as to the type 

 of S. Hartivegi., in separating the two, appears to have made a synonym. 



4. S. hirsuta, Gray, PI. Wright i. 16 (1852) ; Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 

 286 (1887) : >S. delphinifolia, Gray, PI. Fendl. 19 & Gen. 111. ii. 58. t. 120 

 (1849), not Sida delphinifolia, Nutt. Stout, erect, simple or almost 

 f astigiately much branched, 2—4 ft. high ; the rather densely spicate 

 inflorescence and the growing parts densely hirsute : lower leaves round- 

 cordate, slightly crenate-lobed ; cauline completely divided into 7 — 9 

 narrowly linear entire segments or leaflets : calyx }4 in. long, the lobes 

 deep, acuminate : corolla rose-purple, 1 in. long : achenes rugose- 

 reticulate, tipped with a long rather soft but hispid erect beak.— Valleys 

 among the Coast Range hills northward, in Mendocino Co. etc.; also in 

 the interior of the State, on the lower Sacramento and San Joaquin. 



