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in flower, August, with mature fruit. — This plant was also gathered by Lieut. Abert. 

 The native country of Malva miniata, Cav. was not recorded. But that the plant is a 



portion attached to the short axis, which is conspicuonsly 7 - 9-winged. The fruit is figured in Gen. III. 

 2. t. 224. 



^ 2. Phalanges exteriores ex apice columnae exserentes, saepe bifida?, in filamenta 4-6 usque ad medium 

 vel profundiora fissoe ; interiores e filamentis subindefinitis inferne binatim connatis. 



* Annua, pauciflora. 

 y 4. S. Hartwegi : caule tenello subsimplici apice 2 -4-floro inferne foliisque parvis 5-partitis glabratis, 

 segmentis superiorum linearibus integris, imorum spathulatis apice interdum bilobis ; bracteis minimis ; calycis 

 brevi-pedicellati tomentulosi laciniis triangulari-Ianceolatis acuminatis ; corolla lilacina. — California, Hartweg 

 (No. 1669). — Plant 7-9 inches high. Segments of the leaves about half an inch long. Petals two thirds 

 of an inch in length. Fruit unknown. — From the aspect and the disposition of the flowers, this plant would 

 seem to be closely allied to S. diploscypha ; but in the stamineal column it accords with the ensuing species. 



* * Perennes : jlores virgato-racemosa>. 

 y 5. S. hitmilis : undique hispido-hirsuta ; caulibus e radice tuberosa adscendentibus simplicibus (6 - 12 

 unc. altis) ; foliis radicalibus rotundis sinu apertis aut subtruncatis inciso-crenatis indivisis sublobatisve, 

 caulinis (2-4) 5 - 7-partitis, segmentis apice trilobatis obtusis ; racemo brevi (9-15-floro) basi foliato ; 



calycibus pedicello longioribus, laciniis lanceolatis acuminatis ; corolla roseo-purpurea Sida malvaeflora, 



Hook. Sf Am. Bot. Beech, p. 326; an DC. ? — Var. £. humilior, foliis omnibus indivisis seu vix lobatis 

 rotundato-reniformibus basi pi. m. truncatis. — California, Douglas, Fremont, Hartweg. |3. From a Russian 

 collection made in the Bay of San Francisco. — This species is not more than a quarter of the size of S. 

 Oregana, with the leaves only an inch or little more in diameter, while the flowers are much larger, the petals 

 being fully an inch in length. Fruit unknown. 



6. S. Oregana: caule virgato (lJ-3-ped.) superne cinereo-puberulo saepe paniculato ; foliis (hirsutis v. 

 glabratis) radicalibus reniformi-orbiculatis 7 — 9-lobatis, primariis sinu apertissimis vel truncatis, caulinis 3 — 7- 

 partitis, segmentis 2 - 3-fidis lobis apice 3-dentatis vel summorum integerrimis ; racemo praelongo tomentello ; 

 calycibus tomentosis pedicellum superantibus seu sequantibus, laciniis triangulari-ovatis acuminatis demum 

 attenuatis ; corolla rosea vel " rubra " ; coccis fere lasvibus angulo interno apiculatis. — Sida malvaeflora, 

 Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1036; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. I. p. 10S; Torr. Sf Gray, Fl. I. c., vix DC. S. Oregana, 

 Nutt. ! in Torr. Sf Gray, 1. c. (var. minor, glabrior). Nuttallia malvaeflora, Fisch. Sf Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. 

 Petrop. 1837. Southern Oregon, Douglas, Nuttall, Geyer, Mr. Spalding. — Radical and lower leaves large, 

 3 or 4 inches in diameter. Petals half an inch in length. 



7. S. Neo-Mexicana : vide p. 23, No. 79. 



8. S. Candida : vide p. 24, No. 80. 



4. NAP.EA, Clayt. 



Flores dioici. Involucellum nullum. Calyx teres 5-dentatus. Tubus stamineus simplicissimus, in stamina 

 15-20 uniserialia solutus. Caetera Malvse. — Herba procera ; foliis palmato-multifidis laciniatis, radicalibus 

 maximis ; floribus parvis, umbellato-fasciculatis, albis. 



N. dioica, Linn. Spec. 2. p. 686, Sf Amcen. 3. p. 18 ; Gray, Man. Bot. N. U. S. p. 69, Sf Gen. 111. 2. t. 

 225. Sida dioica, Cav. Diss. 5. p. 278. t. 132. / 1; DC. Prodr. 1. p. 465; Torr. Sf Gray, Fl. 1. p. 234 



