492 MALVACEAE 



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Var. spicata Jcpaon comb. n. Stems several from the root-crown, slender, erect, often 

 paniculately branched above, 1 to 4V(; feet hijifli; herbage witli scattered somewhat bristly hairs, 

 those of the stems and petioles spreading; leaf blades crenately lobed or incised or parted, 1 to 

 3^0 (or 5) inches wide; blades of upper leaves pedately parted; spikes loose to dense, 1 to 4 

 inches long; inflorescence finely stellate-pubescent; flowers 4 to 7 lines long; calyx finely stellate- 

 pubescent and hirsute, or sometimes not hirsute; petals narrow, notched at apex, 4 to 8 lines 

 long; carpels small, 1 line long, more or less tomentose, not reticulate, slightly beaked, the beak 

 hairy. — Wet soil of meadow or streamlet borders and of canon bottoms: Sonoma Co. to western 

 Siskiyou Co., 400 to 4000 feet; Sierra Nevada from eastern Siskiyou Co. to Tuolumne Co., 4000 to 

 8000 feet. June-Sept. 



Locs. — North Coast Eanges: Kenwood, Sonoma Co., M. S. Baker 3203c; Lee Logan ranger 

 sta., O'Neil Eidge, ne. Mendocino Co., Cronemiller 796 ; Sisson, Jepson 5784 ; Oro Fino, Siskiyou 

 Co., Butler 62. Sierra Nevada : Goosenest Mt., e. Siskiyou Co., Butler 905 ; Lassen Peak trail, 

 J. Grinncll ; Bear Valley, Nevada Co., Jepson 14,065; Ilot Sprs., Tahoe, Sonne 342; Kennedy 

 Lake, Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 191. Nevada: Brockway, w. Washoe Co., Jepson 7751. The 

 following are similar, save that the stellate-pubescent calyces are not hirsute: Modoc Co., L. S. 

 Smith 1031 ; Mineral, Tehama Co., J. Grinnell; Eagle Lake, Brown 4" TVieslandcr 65; Dog Valley, 

 e. Nevada Co., Jepson 14,063. 



Eefs. — SiDALCEA OREGAXA Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. 4:20 (1849); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 

 240 (1901), ed. 2, 260 (1911), Man. 630 (1925). Sida oregana Nutt.; T. & G. Fl, 1:234 (1838), 

 type from "west side of the Rocky Mts.", Nuttall. S. malvaefiora var. oregana Wats. ; Macoun, 

 Cat. Can. PI. 3:501 (1886), as to synonymy only, ace. Roush, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 18:168 (1931). 

 Var. SPICATA Jepson. S. spicata Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1:76 (1885), type loc. Cisco, Sierra 

 Nevada, Kellogg; Jepson, Man. 629 (1925). CallirJioe spicata Regel, Gartenfl. 21:291, pi. 737 

 (1872), "in der Sierra Nevada, Calif orniens". Sidalcea murrayana Gray, Syn. Fl. 1^:306 (1897), 

 a garden name. S. valida Greene, Pitt. 3:157 (1897), type loc. Knights Valley, Sonoma Co., 

 Greene (plants stout, inflorescence paniculate). S. hydrophila Hel. Muhl. 1:107 (1904), type loc. 

 near Hullville, ridge betw. Eel River and Rice Creek, Lake Co., Heller 6047. 



13. S. malvaefiora Gray. Hill Checker. Stems several from a woody root- 

 crown, simple or branched, erect or half decumbent at base, I14 to 2 feet high, 

 retrorsely hispid below with scattered hairs, usually stellate-pubescent above; 

 blades of lower leaves ^/2 to 1^/2 (or 3) inches wide, crenate or crenately incised 

 or cleft into cuneate-obovate 2 to 4-toothed lobes, their petioles 1 to 8V2 inches 

 long; blades of upper leaves palmately twice cleft into linear or narrowly oblong 

 divisions; racemes rather loose, 3 to 12 inches long; bracts ovate, herbaceous, often 

 notched at apex or decidedly bifid; flowers of two sorts: one perfect with large 

 corollas, the other pistillate with small corollas; corolla of perfect flowers I/2 to 

 11/4 inches long, the outer series of filaments united for about half their length into 

 sets of 4 and 2, the inner filaments mostly distinct; corolla of pistillate flowers 4 

 to 7 lines long, the filaments destitute of good anthers; carpels subglabrous, more 

 or less rugulose-reticulate, 1% lines long, beaked, or the beaks often obsolete. 



Open grassy hillslopes and canon sides, 10 to 3000 (or 7000) feet: Shasta Co. 

 foothills; Humboldt Co. to Marin Co. and east to western Solano Co.; South Coast 

 Ranges; Tehachapi Mts.; cismontane Southern California. South to Lower Cali- 

 fornia, north to southern Oregon. Feb. -May. 



Historical note. — The first collector of Sidalcea malvaefiora was Jose Mariano Mocino, with- 

 out reasonable doubt at Monterey. He accompanied Quadra to Nootka, Vancouver Island, from 

 Mexico in 1792. In September, 1792, Archibald Menzies in his Pacific Coast Journal (p. 254. 

 ms. Jepson Library) speaks of seeing Mocino and his draughtsman Echeverria at Nootka and 

 says that they were to follow Don Quadra to California. On January 1, 1793, Menzies -writes a 

 letter to his friend Sir Joseph Banks of London from Monterey, California, and remarks that the 

 two botanists are here who have been with Don Quadra to the northward all summer (Letters 

 from Archibald Menzies to Sir Joseph Banks, p. 28. ms. Jepson Library). The first illustration 

 of Sidalcea malvaefiora was made by Echeverria as a part of the Mocino and Sesse collection of 

 drawings. Later, with the whole of the Mocino and Sesse drawings, it was duplicated for publi- 

 cation in DeCandoUe's "Caiques des dessins de la flore du Mexique de Mocino et Sesse", t. 70 

 (1874). A copy of this rarity, the "Caiques", is in the University of California Library. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Yager Creek (head of), Humboldt Co., M. S. Baher 38; Hydesville, 

 Humboldt Co., Tracy 3595; Ukiah, Purdy ; Araquipa Hills, w. Solano Co., Jepson 14,077; Vine- 

 land, Napa Valley, Jepson 14,076; Sonoma Valley, Jepson 9191, 9192; Olema, Marin Co., Jepson 

 8290; Ross Valley, Marin Co., Jepson 14,060; Berkeley HUls, Jepson; Walnut Creek, Brewer 



