WOOTON AND STANDLEY FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 423 



Range: Western New Mexico and adjacent Arizona. 



New Mexico: Mangas Springs; MogoUon Mountains; Fierro; Fort Bayard; Hatchet 

 Ranch. Mountains, in the Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 



10. Sphaeralcea cuspidata (A. Gray) Britton in Britt. & Brown, lUustr. Fl. 2: 



519. 1S98. 



Sida stellata Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2: 171. 1828, not Cav. 1790. 



Sphaeralcea stellata Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 228. 1838. 



Sphaeralcea angustifoUa cuspidata A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 22: 293. 1887. 



Type locality: "Sources of the Arkansa." 



Range : Colorado and Kansas to Arizona, Texas, and adjacent Mexico. 



New Mexico: Cross L Ranch; Clayton ; Hopkins Mill; Silver City; Mangas Springs; 

 Dog Spring; mesa west of Organ Mountains; T\Tiite Sands; Alamogordo; Gray; White 

 Mountains; Las Vegas; Ros^vell; Albert; Demiag; Carlsbad. Plains and low hills, 

 often in cultivated groimd, m the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



11. Sphaeralcea lobata Wooton, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 306. 1898. 



Nigger weed. Yerba del negro. 



Sphaeralcea incana f oblongifolia A. Gray, PI. Wright. 2: 21. 1853. 



Sphaeralcea lobata perpallida Cockerell, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 87. 1900. 



Sphaeralcea fendleri lobata Cockerell, Entomologist 1900: 217. 1900. 



Type locality: Mesilla, New Llexico. Type collected by Wooton (no. 2). 



Range : Western Texas and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Ojo Caliente; Santa Fe; Las Vegas; Albuquerque; Silver City; 

 Kingston; Mesilla Valley; Hillsboro; White and Sacramento mountains. Open hills 

 and in river valleys, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 



A common weed in the lower Rio Grande Valley in irrigated fields. It does not 

 commonly exhibit much variation, but occasionally aberrant forms occur. The 

 usual color of the flowers is orange or orange scarlet, but sometimes they are pale, 

 almost white. On most plants the leaves are oblong with an inconspicuous rounded 

 lobe on each side at the base, but we have abnormal forms in which the lobes are 

 more numerous. In one plant noticed, the lateral lobes were extremely narrow, 

 reduced almost to the midveins, with an enlarged portion near the apex. 



The tj-pical form becomes almost a meter high and is erect, strict, and sparingly 

 branched below, differing from the related S. fendleri which is much smaller and more 

 branched. 



12. Sphaeralcea incana Torr. in A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 23. 1849. 

 Type locality: "In New Mexico." Tj'pe collected by Abert. 



Range: New Mexico and Arizona to Chihuahua. 



New Mexico: Albuquerque; Laguna; Big Hatchet Mountains; San Luis Moun- 

 tains; Organ Mountains; WTiite Sands ; west of Roswell; White Mountains; Guadalupe 

 Mountains. Dry hills and plains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



13. Sphaeralcea tripartita Woot. & Standi. Bull. Torrey Club 36: 108. 1909. 

 Type locality: Kingston, Sierra County, New Mexico. Type collected by Met- 

 calfe (no. 1103). 



Range: Known only from type locality. 



14. Sphaeralcea fendleri A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 29. 1849. 



Type locality: Fields and wet meadows, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Type collected 

 by Fendler (no. 78). 



Range: New Mexico and Arizona. 



New Mexico: From the Las Vegas Mountains to the White Mountains and west- 

 ward across the State, in the mountains and foothills. Open slopes, in the Upper 

 Sonoran and Transition zones. 



