418 CONTEIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HEEBAEIUM. 



3. SIDALCEA A. Gray. 



Tall perennial herbs, 1 meter high or less, with rounded, palmately lobed or 

 dissected leaves and showj^ flowers in elongated, terminal, simple or paniculate, 

 bracted racemes; basal leaves often merely coarsely crenate, the upper deeply lobed; 

 flowers large, 2 cm. long or more, purple or white; calyx 5-cleft, without bracts; 

 carpels 5 to 9, 1-seeded, not beaked, indehiscent. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Flowers cream-colored; inflorescence and calyx densely stellate- 

 pubescent 1. S. Candida. 



Flowers purple; inflorescence and calyx hirsute 2. S. neomexicana. 



1. Sidalcea Candida A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 24. 1849. 

 Sidalcea Candida tincta Cockerell, Bot. Gaz. 29: 280. 1900. 



Type locality: Along Santa Fe Creek, New Mexico. Type collected by Fendler 

 (no. 80). 



Range: Wyoming and Utah to New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Sandia Mountains; AVhite and 

 Sacramento mountains; Chama. Wet ground, in the Transition and Canadian zones. 



The type of S. Candida tincta was collected by Cockerell at IIar\-eys Ranch. It ia 

 a common form in which the corolla is tinged with pink. 



2. Sidalcea neomexicana A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 23. 1849. 



Type locality: Moist meadows, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Type collected by Fend- 

 ler (no. 79). 



Range: Wyoming and Utah to New Mexico and southern California. 



New Mexico: Chama; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Kingston; Mangas 

 Springs; Mogollon Mountains; Las Huertas Canyon; Ramah; White Mountains. 

 Wet ground, in the Transition Zone. 



4. CALLHIRHOE Nutt. 



Perennial herbs with long thick roots; leaves alternate, petiolate, lobed or cleft; 

 flowers showy, axillary; petals purple; carpels 10 to 20, 1-celled, 1-seeded, beaked 

 when mature, forming a disklike fruit about the axis. 



key to the species. 



Calyx subtended by 3 bracts 1. C. iiivolticrata. 



Calyx naked 2. C. alcaeoides. 



1. CaUirrhoe involucrata (Torr. & Gray) A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. eer. 4: 



16. 1849. 

 Malva involucrata Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 226. 1838. 

 A common weed in gardens and cultivated ground. 

 Type locality: "Valley of the Loup Fork of the Platte." 

 Range: Utah and Minnesota to Texas and northeastern New Mexico. 

 New Mexico: Sierra Grande; Perico Creek. Plains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



2. CaUirrhoe alcaeoides (Michx.) A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 18. 1849. 

 Sida alcaeoides Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2: 44. 1803. 



Type locality: "Hab. in glareosis Kentucky et Tennessee." 



Range: Nebraska and Kansas to New Mexico and Texas. 



New Mexico: Las Vegas {Porter). Plains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone, 



