18 



PLANT^ WRIGHTIAN^. 



V. 



L 



rather leafy, bearing few flowers towards the summit. Leaves one or two inches 



length, on rather long petioles, acute or obtuse 



;ly and irregularly toothed 



and nearly all of them with two hastate lobes near the base : both surfaces 



greenish, or the lower somewhat canescent when y 



the upper becomes al 



most glabrous. " ilowers orange-red," larger than those of S. incana and S. Fend- 

 leri (No. 59, 60), the fruit also larger and with shorter cusps than in the latter, the 

 lobes of the calyx narrower and more prolonged. 



44. SiDA HEDERACEA, ToTr. iu Pl. Fencll. p. 23. Malva hederacea, Do^igl. in Hook. 

 Fl. Bor.-Am. l. p. lOT. M. Californica, Presl. Eel Hccnh 2. p. 121. M. pl 



i\' 



m 



Torr. §• Grai/, Fl. 1. p. 227. Sida obliqua, Torr. §• Gray, Fl 



New 



Mexico, the locality not recorded 



46. S 



ety with more toothed 



otherwise as the Oregon. 



plant, but less downy. Sandy bottoms of the Eio Grande, below El Paso ; Sept. 



yellow." — Various forms of this species have just been received 



Flowers 



from Mr. Wrighfs New Mexican collection of 1851; among them one with much 

 smaller, more oblique and plicate, and la6iniately toothed leav 



t^ 



(sp. nov.) 



furfuraceo-lepidota vel argentata ; caulibus 



pendiculari lignescente procumbentibus 



foliis triansulari-cordatis 



el hastato-sublanceolatis acutis basi valde obliquis laciniato-dentatis 



apicem 



lobis 



g 



pedunculis axillaribus solitariis uniflor 



alycis eb 



ovato-triangulatis acuminatis tubo subduplo longioribus corolla (ut 



rubella) paulo br 

 obtuso aniculatis. 



carpellis dorso puberulis la^viusculis rostro brevissimo 



New Mexico: fr 



Mr. Wright 



of 1851 



Root 



long and rather woody. Stems 4 to 10 inches long, silvery with close lepidote 



f. Leaves 



cuif (instead of the 



ather long petioles, clothed, especially when young, with similar 



pubescence of S. hederacea), which at lcngth be 



comes more sparse, or is partly deciduous, especially from the upper surface : they 

 are from half an inch to an inch and a half long, quite variable in shax)e, the lower 



date or reniform, the uppermost to hastate-lanceolate. 



long as the petioles, or the lower elongated 



S. hederacea 



Pseiido 



Peduncles as 

 Flowers mostly smaller than those of 



A well-marked, although somewhat polymorphous, species of the 



45. S. LEPiDOTA, var. depauperata : magis argentca, foliis floribusque minoribus 

 Hill-sides between El Paso and the mountains, Aue-. • in 



specimen 



flower only, and insuffi 

 I have characterizcd the species as above, from the mor( 



mal and better developed specimens gathered during the past summcL 

 47. S. LEPiDOTA, var. sagitt^folia : foliis lanccolatis hastatis vel sagittatis basim 



um integerrimis (infimis dc- 



SEepe dentibus 



2-S 



Mountain valley, sixty miles west of the Pecos ; Aug. — This is evidently 

 more than a variety of S. lepidota, with narrower, chiefly rameal leaves, some of 



the uppermost nearly linear and 



48. S 



CUJSEIFOLIA : 



tomentosa, humil 



caulibus e basi fruticul 



gentibus ramosissimis ; foliis parvulis rotundato-cuneiformibus flabell 



dentatis repandisve utrinque concoloribus 



3 



5 - ner- 



pulis linearibus petiolum 



