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subsessile : stellate tomentum coarser, yellowish or brownish : leaves 

 3— 5-lob3d, the lobes and teeth obtuse ; stipules lanceolate, conspicuous: 

 bractlets of the few large calyces linear-lanceolate, nearly equalling the 

 acuminate calyx-lobes : petals 1 in. long, dull pinkish or yellowish 

 white : carpels and seed as in the last. — Plentiful on bushy hills in San 

 Luis Obispo Co., Palmer, Michael, also in Monterey and San Benito^ 

 Hickman. A homely species, stouter than M. fasciculalum, equally 

 shrubby though never as tall. 



5. M. marrubioides, Dur. & Hilg. Pac. R. Rep. v. 6. t. 2 (1855). 



Sufffutescent, 2 ft. high, densely tomentose : leaves thick, short-petioled, 

 1^ in. long, ovate, subcordate, obscurely 3-lobed, sharply toothed : fl. 

 subsessile in glomerate clusters in the axils of the upper leaves, or 

 running out into a naked interrupted spike : calyx-lobes long-acuminate; 

 petals rose-color, % — ^ in. long : carpels rounded or oblong, smooth and 

 glabrous. — A rare or local species, as to the type, which is from Millerton, 

 on the San Joaquin ; but a shrub six or eight feet high, with less con- 

 densed inflorescence, but apparently much the same, is found along 

 stream-banks back of Belmont, San Mateo Co. 



6. M. orbiculatum. SufFrutescent, the stout erect and simple 

 branches 2—3 ft. high ; whole plant densely tomentose : leaves short- 

 petioled, 1 — 2 in. long and as broad, the lower and smaller round- 

 reniform, the upper orbicular, not even obscurely lobed but coarsely 

 crenate, very obtuse or slightly retuse : fl. many, nearly sessile and densely 

 glomerate in the axils of the upper-leaves and at almost leafless 

 subterminal nodes : bractlets setaceous, much shorter than the lanceolate 

 acuminate deep calyx-lobes : corolla deep rose-color, % in. long or more : 

 fr. unknown. — Collected by the author, in the mountains south of 

 Tehachapi, Kern Co., June, 1889 ; well marked in leaf -outline as distinct 

 from the preceding and the following. 



7. M. Fremonti, Torr. in Gray, PI. Fendl. 21 (1849). Sphxralcea 

 Lindheimeri, Bot. Calif, i. 85, by mistake. Suffrutescent, very stout, 

 2 — 3 ft. high, densely white-tomentose : leaves very thick, short-petioled, 

 1 — 3 in. long, broadly ovate, cordate at base, slightly 3— 5-lobed and 

 crenate : fl. in short axillary pedunculate racemose clusters : calyx 

 ovate, % ill- ^ong, only the setaceous tips of its lobes visible amid the 

 deep and dense white tomentum, almost equalled by the 3 linear 

 setaceous involucral bractlets : corolla % in. long, rose-color : carpels 

 thin, smooth, promptly dehiscent. — From Mt. Diablo, Kalian, southward 

 in the same range of hills ; also in Calaveras Co., according to Gray. 



8. M. multiflorujii. Shrubby, slender, canescently stellate through- 

 out : leaves 3^ in. long or more, thin, ovate, slightly lobed and finely 

 toothed : fl. numerous, small, on axillary leafy paniculate rather crowded 



