MALLOW FAMILY 



487 



Open foothills or valley plains, 100 to 3000 feet : Coast Ranges from Humboldt 

 Co. to San Luis Obispo Co.; Sacramento Valley; Sierra Nevada foothills from 

 Shasta Co. to Mariposa Co. Apr.-June. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges : Elk Prairie, Humboldt Co., Davy 5463 ; Sherwood Valley, Mendocino 

 Co., Jepson 1838; Willits, Jepson 2495; Ukiah Valley, Jepson 9286; Lakeport, M. S. Baker; 

 Venado, w. Colusa Co., Jepson 16,260 ; Knoxville ridge, ne. Napa Co., Jepson 9041 ; Healdsburg, 

 Jepson 9295; Pope Creek, Napa Co., E. Ferguson 345; Putah Caiion, w. of Winters, Jepson 

 14,078 ; Button Canon, Vaca Mts., Jepson 14,067 ; Hoods Peak, Sonoma Co., Michener 4' Bioletti; 

 Fairfax, Marin Co., E. C. Sutliffe; Newark, Alameda Co., Davy 1121; Mt. Hamilton, W. W. 

 Price; Morro, San Luis Obispo Co., Gondii. Sacramento Valley: Vina, Tehama Co., Keller 



11,336; Cana (e. of), Butte Co., Jepson 16,369; Col- 

 lege City, Colusa Co., Alice King ; MarysvUle Buttes, 

 Blanlcinship ; Eumsey, Yolo Co., C. F. BaTcer 2931; Elk 

 Grove, Sacramento Co., Brew; Montezuma Hills, se. 

 Solano Co., Jepson 14,068. Sierra Nevada foothills and 

 the adjacent rolling plains : Oak Run, Shasta Co., 

 BaTcer 4' Nutting ; Clear Creek, Butte Co., H. E. Brown; 

 Milton, San Joaquin Co., Bavy 1330; Mariposa Co. 

 (Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 18:140). 



Eefs. — SiDALCEA DiPLOSCYPHA Gray; Benth. PI. 

 Hartw. 300 (1848); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 239 

 (1901), ed. 2, 259 (1911), Man. 628 (1925). Sida 

 diploscypha T. & G. Fl. 1:234 (1838), type from Cal., 

 Bouglas; H. & A. Bot. Beech. 326, t. 76 (1840). Sidalcea 

 diploscypha var. minor Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. 4:19 

 (1849), type from Cal., Fremont (flowers smaller, 1% 

 inches broad, with a darker purple center) ; Jepson, Fl. 

 W, Mid. Cal. 239 (1901), ed. 2, 259 (1911). S. secundi- 

 flora Greene, Fl. Fr. 103 (1891), type from the Coast 

 Ranges. 



2. S. hartwegfii Gray. Valley Sidalcea, 

 Stem slender, sparingly branched, 7 to 12 

 inches high; herbage sparsely stellate-pubes- 

 cent or almost glabrous below, but scarcely or 

 not at all hispid; leaves with the blades 4 to 12 

 lines wide, pedately 5 to 7-divided into linear 

 entire divisions or the lower (usually decidu- 

 ous before flowering) with blades having 

 broader trifid divisions; petioles 3 to 11 lines 



long; flowers few in a short spike; bracts narrowly linear or lanceolate, 1 to 1^2 



lines long; calyx finely stellate-pubescent; corolla rose-purple, 6 to 8 lines long; 



filaments of the outer series of stamens closely approximating the inner, more or 



less united in pairs or sets as in the perennial species; carpels strongly incurved, 



alveolate-reticulate. 



Dry clay or gravelly hillsides, 25 to 1300 feet : Mendocino Co. to Napa Co. ; 



Sacramento Valley; Sierra Nevada foothills from Shasta Co. to Tulare Co. Mar.- 



June. 



Locs, — North Coast Ranges : Lodoga, w. Colusa Co., Jepson 16,278 ; Potter Valley, Mendo- 

 cino Co., Nettie Purpus; Scott Valley, Lake Co., Tracy 1648 ; Indian Valley, ne. Lake Co., Jepson 

 8987; St. Helena, Jepson 14,069. Sacramento Valley: Crane Creek, w. Tehama Co., Jepson 

 14,071; Rio Linda, n. Sacramento Co., Jepson 16,586; College City, Alice King; Hartley sta., 

 nw. Solano Co., C. F. Baker 2877. Sierra Nevada foothills: Burney, Shasta Co. (Ann. Mo. Bot. 

 Gard. 18:149) ; Little Chico Creek, Butte Co., Heller; Auburn, Shockley; Gwin Mine, Calaveras 

 Co., Jepson 1802 ; Chinese Camp, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 6321 ; Cathay Valley, Mariposa Co., Jep- 

 son 12,764; Kings River (Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 18:150) ; Kaweah River, W. Fry 156, 



Refs. — Sidalcea hartwegii Gray; Benth. PI. Hartw. 300 (1848), type loc. Sacramento Val- 

 ley, Eartweg 246, more exactly Butte Co. plains (Erythea 5:54) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 239 

 (1901), ed. 2, 259 (1911), Man. 628 (1925), S. tenella Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1:7 (1884), type 

 loc. Little Chico Creek, Butte Co., B. M. Austin. S. hartwegii var. tenella Gray, Proc, Am, Acad. 

 22:286 (1887). 



Fig. 239. Sidalcea diploscypha 

 Gray, a, habit, X Vs; b, basal leaf, 

 X % ; c, long. sect, of fl., X % ; d, 

 nutlet, X 4. 



