158 PITTONIA. 
S. Oregona in size and habit, but very dissimilar as to pu- 
bescence, foliage, and characters of calyx and carpels. 
SIDALCEA SCABRA. Perennial, tufted, the slender and 
simple stems a foo: long and more, decumbent or assurgent: 
herbage appearing almost glabrous, but rough to the touch 
with a short geminate or somewhat stellate pubescence: 
leaves on long and slender petioles, all much alike, both 
radical and cauline semiorbicular, about 7-lobed, the lobes | ; 
' from short and quadrate to subcuneate, and crenately 3- 
lobed at summit, the sinuses open: flowers large, rose-pur- 
ple, in a simple and loose raceme: calyx very deeply cleft ; 
segments lanceolate, acuminate: carpels not known. 
: Common in moist clayey subsaline soil about the hot 
springs at Byron, California. A plaut so mueh resembling = 
the common 8. malvxflora of the seaboard, in mode of — 
growth and size of corolla, that its very good characters as 
a species have until now been overlooked. The semiorbic- 
ular outline and peculiar cut of the leaves, the scarcely vis- 
ible but easily felt rough pubescence, and the deeply cleft 
calyx are very characteristic. — 
SIDALCEA ASPLENIFOLIA. Stout and tall, apparently 4 or 
5 feet ] high, the stem with a few scattered stellate hairs, the 
petioles of the very large leaves 6 or 8 inches long, retrorsely 
short-hirsute with mostly geminate hairs: lowest leaves 4 : 
. Inches wide, rounded and merely lobed or cleft, the middle | 
^eauline much larger (often 8 or 10 inches broad), u usually — 
completely divided into 5 or 7 lanceolate leaflets, these — 
> coarsely serrate-pinnatifid; the upper cauline parted into | 
more cuneiform segments 3-lobed at summit: panicled ra 4 
cemes in fruit a foot long or more, sparsely stellate-hispid : 
corolla pink, barely 3 inch long: segments of the stellate x 
tomentose calyx ovate-lanceolate, longer than the tube: car- — 
pels not known. 
Collected near Seattle, Washington, July, 1891, a Mss 
C. V. Piper. 
