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leaves, etc. ; racemes short, spicate-crowded or more open and elongated : 

 calyx deeply cleft, the ovate acnte or acuminate lobes twice as long as 

 the tube, very hairy : petals ^o in. long, deeply emarginate, red-purple 

 or paler : achenes small, depressed, pubescent but not reticulate. — In 

 moist ground in open woods, or along fences and borders of thickets in 

 the higher Sierra ; the densely spicate typical form at Cisco and Donner 

 Lake ; a taller, more branching and slender-spiked state occurring far 

 northward, Mrs. Austin. Everywhere and in all its forms readily 

 distinguishable from *S. Oregana by the long and harsh pubescence of the 

 whole herbage, and its vivid light green hue ; the more deeply cleft 

 calyx, with more attenuate as well as relatively much longer lobes, shorter 

 and incurved achenes, etc. June —Sept. 



9. S. malvseflora (M09. & Sesse), Gray, PI. Wright, i. 16 (1852), not of 

 Bot. Calif., or of later papers : S. Neo-Mexicana, Gray, PI. Fendl. 23 

 (1849) ; Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 287 ; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. i. 99. Sida 

 malvwjiora, M09. & Sesse, in DC. Prodr. i. 474 (1824). Stems slender at 

 least at the base, clustered and strictly erect, from a thick more or less 

 grumose or tuberous root, 2 — 8 ft. high, occasionally simple, commonly 

 with a few paniciilate branches ; glabrous, except a slight scarcely 

 stellate or even fascicled pubescence on the calyx and pedicels, and a 

 few scattered solitary hirsute hairs on the stem above and below : leaves 

 small, the lowest truncate at base and incised-crenate, the upper 5-cleft 

 or -divided, the segments entire and narrow, or broader and with a few 

 pinnate lobes : calyx small, deeply cleft, the segments deltoid-ovate, 

 acute or acuminate : achenes less than a line long, nearly as broad, 

 minutely apiciilate, glabrous, smooth or more or less rugose-reticulate. — 

 This Arizono-Mexican species, common in mountain meadows of New 

 Mexico and Arizona, has been found in San Bernardino Co., Parish, and 

 is almost certain to occur on the eastern side of the Sierra within our 

 limits, in Kern, Inyo and Mono counties. It is wholly distinct from each 

 and all of the five or six Californian species collectively designated 

 .S'. mahiefolia in the State Survey volumes. 



■)— -i— Stems decumbent at base, simply racemose above. 



10. S. delphiiiifolia (Nutt.), Greene, not of Gray, PI. Fendl. & Gen. 

 111. (1849). Sida delphimfolia, Nutt. in T. & G. Fl. i. 235 (1838). Sidalcea 

 malvxjiora, Gray, in later writings, not of PI. Wright. (1852). Stems 

 clustered from a tuberous-enlarged or somewhat ligneous crown, stout, 

 erect from a decumbent base, or ascending, 1 — 3 ft. high : whole herbage 

 rather stiffly hirsute, the hairs often fascicled in threes, spreading or 

 somewhat retrorse, lower face of leaves with a sparse stellate pubescence 

 beneath the hirsute : radical leaves crenate-incised, round, with open 

 sinus ; cauline 7-parted, the segments deeply trifid : fl. often unisexual : 

 calyx in fr. sometimes ^2 ^^- lt)iife'i "^^ry deeply cleft, the lobes broadly 



