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branches. Bracts mostly 3-cleft and as long as the pedicels. Calyx-lobes triangular- 

 acuminate, growing longer and more slender with age, as in the S. Oregana. Petals 

 nearly half an inch in length. It is a smaller and more slender plant than the S. Ore- 

 gana. A full account of this genus is given in the subjoined note (p. 18 et seq.). The 

 species have been for the most part referred to Sida, with which they have little in com- 

 mon excepting the naked calyx. 



f 80. S. Candida (sp. nov.) : caule folioso inferne petiolisque parce hirtellis ; foliis 

 inferioribus et radicalibus orbiculatis sinu clausis 7-lobatis lrevibus ciliolatis, lobis cuneato- 

 rotundatis grosse 3-5-crenatis incisisve, supremis 7- (floralibus 3-5-) partitis, segmentis 

 lanceolatis inte^ris ; stipulis ovalibus ; racemo brevi compacto glandulosi-tomentoso ; 

 pedicellis brevissimis ; calycis tomentosi laciniis ovatis obtusiusculis ; corolla alba ; coccis 

 kevibus glabris angulo interno apiculo pubescente mucronatis. — Gray, Gen. III. t. 224. 

 — Along Santa Fe Creek; June, July. Plant 18 inches high; the stems simple from 

 a perennial creeping rhizoma, glabrous except the scattered bristly hairs below : the 

 smooth leaves almost exactly orbicular in circumscription, 2 to 2i inches in diameter. 

 Raceme spicate, only 3 or 4 inches long, densely flowered, not elongating in fruit, leafy 

 at the base, glandular-downy, as well as the calyx ; the upper bracts linear or lanceolate 

 and little longer than the pedicels : the latter are spreading, shorter than the calyx. 

 2 to 3 lines long. Petals apparently pure white, obovate, over half an inch long. Sta- 

 mineal column slender, hairy (as in the other species), the phalanges less distinct than in 

 the foregoing. Anthers blue. Carpels 9 or 10, cochleate-reniform, minutely apiculate 

 at the inner angle. — A remarkable variety of this fine species, having larger cauline 

 leaves with a very open sinus, and subsessile flowers, was gathered by Col. Fremont in 

 his third expedition, probably in the Rocky Mountains. 



81, 82. Malvastrlm coccinelm : humilis, incanum ; caulibus e basi sublignosa ra- 

 mosis diffusis ; foliis trisectis tripartitisve, segmentis lateralibus sfepius bipartitis inter- 

 medio trifido, lobis oblongis linearibusve integris seu paucidentatis ; floribus inferioribus 

 solitariis rariusve geminis in axillis foliorum, superioribus in racemum strictum digestis ; 

 bracteis subulatis deciduis ; bracteolis involucelli 1 -2 setaceis fugacibus ; coccis 9 -12 

 clausis dorso subtuberculatis cano-tomentosis. — Gray, Gen. III. t. 219. Cristaria cocci- 

 nea, Pursh ! Fl. 2. p. 453. Malva coccinea, Nutt. ! Gen. 2. p. 81 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1643. 

 Sida coccinea, DC Prodr. 1. p. 465 ; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. I. p. 108 ; Torr. £- Gray! Fl. 

 1. p. 235. — Var. /3. dissectum : nanum; foliis 3-5-partitis, segmentis 3-5-fidis lobis- 

 que anguste linearibus. Sida dissecta, Nutt. ! in Torr. $■ Gray, I. c. ; Hook. #• Am. ! 

 Bot. Beech. Suppl. p. 327. — Plains, &c, Santa Fe, and east to Rock Creek and Poni 

 Creek of the Canadian ; June to September. In flower and fine fruit. Some varying 



