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78. Sph.^ralcea mini via, Spach, Hist. Nat. Teg. 3. p. 352 ? Gray, Gen. III. t. 230. 

 Malva miniata, Coo, Ic. 3. p. 40. t. 278. Fields and wet meadows, Santa Fe ; June, 



mum in S. diploscypha and the related species of the typical section. To which, if either, of the second sec- 

 tion the Sida malva?flora of De Candolle (founded solely on a drawing by Mo<;ino and Sesse) belongs, I cannot 

 determine ; perhaps to S. Neo-Mexicana. But, as Lindley has long since applied the name to the Oregon 

 species, which again has been confounded with a third from California, it will be best to drop it altogether, or 

 until the plant to which it really pertains can be identified. 



§1. Phalanges exteriores staminum lata; membranaceoe, integral, truncate, 5-8-antherifene, e medio 

 columnar exserentes, sestivatione convolutivre ; interiores terminales 10, angusta?, sa?pius 2-antherifera ; fila- 

 mentis fere ad apicem coalitis. 



•* 1. S. diploscypha: annua, pilis patentissimis molliter hirsuta ; caule paniculato-ramosa ; foliis rotun- 

 datis longe petiolatis demum glabratis, radicalibus inciso-crenatis, caulinis 7-partitis, segmentis oblongis 2-3- 

 fidis, floralibus sessilibus bracleisque 3- 7-sectis segmentis lineari-filiformibus; floribus aggregatis brevissime 

 pedicellatis ; laciniis calycis 5-partiti lanceolatis sensim acuminatis ; coccis liberis cochleato-reniformibus 

 omnino muticis transversim-rugosis dorso sulcatis. — Gray, Gen. 111. 2. t. 222. Sida diploscypha, Torr. <$• 

 Gray, Fl. 1. p. 234 ; Hook. 8f Am. Bot. Beech, p. 236. 1. 76. — Var. /3 minor : omnibus partis minoribus ; 

 ramis paucifloris ; petalis in sp. sicco purpuratis. California, Douglas. j9. California, Fremont, Hartweg. — 

 The petals in Douglas's specimens are pale, and as if barely tinged with purple. In those of Fremont and 

 Hartweg they are dark and dull purple, a hue probably assumed or much deepened in drying ; and the whole 

 plant is smaller and more slender. It is from Fremont's specimens that I have described the fruit, which con- 

 sists of from 7 to 9 pretty large carpels ; these are thin and membranaceous, and open by a rent at the inner 

 angle as they separate. — The figure in Bot. Beech, does not show the division of the inner stamineal column 

 at the summit into 10 narrow phalanges, of which five are alternate with the broad exterior phalanges, and 

 five alternate with these. 



' 2. S. Califormca : perennis ? undique cinereo-tomentosa ; caule simplici stricto (pedali) ; foliis cor- 

 dato-orbiculatis velutinis crenato-dentatis subincisis, inferioribus vix lobatis, summis 5-7-fidis brevi-petiolalis ; 

 racemo simplici ; calyce pedicello brevissimo bracteaque duplo longioribus, laciniis ovato-lanceolatis. — Sida 

 Californica, Nutl. ! in Torr. 4' Gray, Fl. 1. p. 233. — Santa Barbara, California, Nuttall. — Most resembles 

 S. humilis. The single specimen I have seen is barely in flower. The fruit is therefore unknown ; but the 

 ovule is ascending. The stamineal column is nearly as in the preceding. 



' 3. S. delphinifolia : annua ; caule stricto simplici superne hirsutissimo ; foliis (radicalibus non visis) 

 caulinis 7-partitis sectisve, segmentis linearibus angustis (14-- 1 unc. longis lineam latis) simplicibus ; race- 

 moso denso multifloro basi foliato ; calyce hirsutissimo 5-partito pedicello duplo Iongiore, laciniis lincari-lance- 

 olatis ; coccis reticulatis glabriusculis rostello molli erecto hispido apiculatis. — Sida delphinifolia, Nutt. ! in 

 Torr. 4> Gray, Fl. 1. p. 235. — Santa Barbara, California, Nuttall. California, Hartweg. — I have drawn 

 the character from a Hartwegian specimen (the specimen of Nuttall in Dr. Torrey's herbarium being imper- 

 fect), which, having the root, shows that the plant is an annual; but the radical leaves are wanting. Stem 

 14 inches high, terminated by a short raceme of crowded showy flowers. Calyx half an inch, the purple 

 petals fully an inch, in length. Stamineal column as in No. 1 ; the broad exterior phalanges strongly 

 convolute in aestivation and inclosing the inner. Carpels 7 to 9, smaller than in No. 1, finely reticulated, 

 tipped with a short, perhaps not persistent, hairy beak : when removed they leave a pretty large ventral 



