106 MALVACE^. 



lanceolate, acute : rose-red corolla often l^o in- long : achenes large, 

 semiorbicular rugose-reticulate. Var. hiiinilis. *S'. linmiUs, Gray, PI. 

 Fendl. 20. Often only 6 — 10 in. long and much depressed : hirsute 

 pubescence scant or none : achenes more cochleate (almost orbicular). — 

 The hairy type is southern, but is found in San Mateo Co. The variety, 

 or perhaps a species, is the common early flowering perennial of the 

 whole seaboard region of middle California. It is usually dioecious, 

 the pistillate flowers being of less than half the size of the staminate. 



11. S. Californica, Gray, PI. Fendl. 19 (1849) ; Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 

 286 ; Nutt. in T. & G. Fl. i. 233 (1838), under Sida. Size and habit of 

 the last, but not in the least hirsute, the whole herbage cinereous with a 

 short and soft pubescence of radiate-clustered hairs.-- Of the Santa Ynez 

 Mts., biit to be expected in San Luis Obispo Co. if not ui Monterey, on 

 the higher mountains. 



12. S. asprella, Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. i. 78 (188.5); Gray, 1. c. 

 (1887). More slender, 1 — 2 ft. high, without hirsute or hispid hairs, but 

 roughish with a minute dense stellular pubescence : leaves of lower and 

 upper parts of plant alike in form, all 5-lobed, the lobes with about 

 5-rounded teeth : achenes rugose-reticulate throughout, dorsally some- 

 what concave, the margin angled. — In the foothills of the Sierra only, 

 and from Butte Co. to Calaveras. May~Jiily. 



13. S. glaucescens, Greene, 1. c. ; Gray, 1. c. Slender, 1—2 ft. high, 

 glabrous, or with a minute and obscure pubescence on the altogether 

 pallid and seemingly glaucous herbage : leaves all palmately divided, 

 the cuneate divisions 3— 5-lobed or -toothed, or of the uppermost leaves 

 linear, entire : raceme lax, few-flowered : corolla deep purple, the petals 

 obtuse or truncate : achenes with elongated reticulation. In the higher 

 Sierra only, from Mt. Shasta to Kern Co.; common there, and very 

 beautiful. June — Sept. 



* * * Anomalous species ; perhaps sui generis, and if so, to he 

 called Hesperalcea. 



14. S. iiialachroides, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 332 (1868) ; H. & A. 

 Bot. Beech. 326 (1840), under Malca. Boot perennial : stems clustered, 

 erect, 2-6 ft. high : herbage rough-hispidulous throughout with a 

 stellate-clustered short pubescence : leaves ample, (2 —5 in. wide) cordate, 

 3— 7-angled, the lobes coarsely toothed : inflorescence dioecious : fl. 

 small, white, in short dense spikes at the ends of the numerous paniculate 

 leafy branches : calyx-lobes broad, acute : some outer stamens joined 

 in pairs beyond the tube, the others distinct : carpels somewhat stellate- 

 pubescent or glabrous, the surface even, apparently dehiscent by a dorsal 

 suture. -In swampy lands of the Coast Range from Santa Cruz Co. to 

 Humboldt; not common. June Aug. 



