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1002; Newark, Alameda Co., Davy 1101; Hunter Pt., San Francisco, Jepson 12,706; Little 

 Arthur Creek, w. of Gilroy, Jepson 9708; Corallitos, Santa Cruz Co., Jepson 14,059; Carmel, 

 E. Ferguson 295; Morro, San Luis Obispo Co., Barber; Arroyo Grande, Alice King; Cuyama, 

 Eastwood. Tehachapi Mts. : Tehachapi, T. Brandegee. Southern California : Mt. Pinos Ventura 

 Co., Hall 6503 ; Pt. Salinas, Santa Barbara Co., Ida Blochman; Sulphur Mt., Ventura Co., Epling 

 4- Anderson; Ojai Valley, Hubby; Santa Monica, Barber; San Dimas, Chandler; San Bernardino 

 Valley, Parish 6957; Hemet Valley, Munz 5441; Cootca, Palomar Mt., Jepson 1545; Escondido, 

 Alice King; Mesa Grande, San Diego Co., E. Ferguson; Cuyamaca Lake, Mum 9777; La Jolla, 

 Jepson 11,877. In more exposed situations, the upper divided leaves are mostly absent: Men- 

 docino City; betw. Sea View and Stewarts Pt., Sonoma Co., M. S. Baker; Bodega Bay, Chandler 

 713 ; Baldy Peak, Berkeley, Chandler 214 ; Lake Merced, San Francisco, K. Brandegee. 



Var. celata Jepson var. n. Herbage stellate-hispid, the stems sparsely so or subglabrous; 

 leaves mostly basal, blades of the basal cleft or parted into broad lobes, blades of the upper 

 deeply parted or divided, often into narrow lobes; inflorescence usually elongated; flowers on 

 pedicels Vz to 4 lines long or subsessile; bracts bifid, the segments linear or lanceolate. — (Herbae 

 stellati-hispidae, aliquando caulibus glabratis ; folia plerumque basilaria, in lobos latos incisa ; 

 folia caulina pauca, profunde partita, saepe lobis angustis; inflorescentia plerumque elongata; 

 bracteae bifidae, segmentis linearibus vel lanceolatis.) — Upper Sacramento Valley in Shasta Co.: 

 Olinda, Blanhinship (type) ; Anderson, Alice King. 



Var. calif ornica Jepson. Stems stout, erect; herbage densely stellate-pubescent; calyx- 

 lobes 3 to 5-nerved; carpels hispidulose. — Valleys and hillsides, 50 to 1000 feet: Santa Barbara 

 (Geo. B. Grant 5452) to Ventura Co. (Ojai Valley, ace. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 18:200). 



Refs. — SiDALCEA MALVAEFLOEA Gray; Benth. PI. Hartw. 300 (1848); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. 

 Cal. 240 (1901), ed. 2, 260 (1911), Man. 630, fig. 627 (1925). Sida malvaeftora DC. Prod. 1:474 

 (1824), type recorded as from "Mexico", undoubtedly from Monterey, Cal., Mocino. Nuttallia 

 malvae flora F. & T. ; F. & M. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 3 :41 (1837). Sidalcea humilis Gray, Mem. 

 Am. Acad. 4:20 (1849). Sida delphinifolia Nutt. ; T. & G. Fl. 1:235 (1838), type loc. Santa 

 Barbara, Nuttall. Sidalcea delphinifolia Greene, Fl. Fr. 105 (1891) ; not S. delphinifolia Gray 

 (1848). S. scabra Greene, Pitt. 3:158 (1897), type loc. Byron Hot Sprs., e. Contra Costa Co., 

 Greene. S. rostrata Eastw. Bull. Torr. Club 29:80 (1902), type loc. Mendocino, H. E. Brown 

 815. Var. CELATA Jepson. Var, californica Jepson, Man. 630 (1925). Sida calif ornica l^nit.; 

 T. & G. Fl. 1:233 (1838), type loc. Santa Barbara, Nuttall. Sidalcea californica Gray, Mem. 

 Am. Acad. 4:19 (1849). 



14. S. malachroides Gray. Coast Checker. Stems several from the base, 

 stout, 2 to 4 feet high, equably leafy to the summit, simple below, ending above in 

 a panicle of spikes; herbage stellate-hispidulous to -hirsute; leaves vitiform, the 

 blades palmately but shallowly lobed, unequally dentate, 1 to 6 (mostly 2 to 3) 

 inches broad; spikes oblong, very dense, I/2 to 2^/2 inches long; bracts linear or 

 subulate, 2 to 3 lines long; calyx-lobes ovate, acuminate; petals white, broad, 

 notched, abruptly clawed; staminate flowers 5 to 6 lines long, the filaments of the 

 outer series united for about % their length or less into pairs, or two such pairs 

 slightly united by their bases making a set of 4; carpels sometimes present; pistil- 

 late flowers 3 to 4 lines long, the tube of filaments short, more or less truncate and 

 without anthers; carpels 7 to 9, half dehiscent by a ventral suture, 1 to 2 lines long. 



Along the coast, 5 to 200 feet : Humboldt Co. to Monterey Co., mostly at scat- 

 tered stations. May-June. 



Note on variation. — The pubescence of Sidalcea malachroides varies from rather densely 

 long-hirsute to rather sparsely and shortly stellate-pubescent. The leaf -blades are more or less 

 deeply angular-lobed or sometimes merely crenate-lobed. In response to cultivation they increase 

 remarkably in size, becoming 9 inches wide. The petals in specimens from Monterey Co. tend to 

 be broadly spatulate-obcordate with a very wide notch, while those of the more northerly portion 

 of the range are usually oblong-obcordate with a rather narrow notch. 



Locs. — Betw. Korbel and Angels ranch, n. Humboldt Co., Jepson 1929; Engelwood Prairie, 

 Humboldt Co., Davy 5482 ; Areata, Chesnut 4- Drew; Eureka, Tracy 3010 ; Holmes Flat, lower Eel 

 River, Tracy 4964; Westport, Mendocino Co., K. Brandegee; Inglenook, Mendocino Co., Congdon; 

 Point Arena, Michener 4" Bioletti; Mill Creek, near Sur River, Santa Lucia Mts., Davy 7301. 



Refs. — Sidalcea malachroides Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:332 (1868) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. 

 Cal. 241 (1901), ed. 2, 260 (1911), Man. 631 (1925). Malva malachroides H. & A. Bot. Beech. 

 326 (1838), type from Cal., Douglas. Hesperalcea malachroides Greene, Pitt. 2:301 (1892). S. 

 vitifolia Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:332 (1868), type loc. Bear Harbor, Mendocino Co., Bolander 

 (ace. Roush, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 18:217, the type number of S. vitifolia, 6473, differs from the 

 typical form of species, S. malachroides, only in the more angulately lobed leaves and in the 

 shorter and harsher pubescence). 



