102 MALVACEA. SIDALCEA. 
SPH #RALCEA. 
variously incised, or the uppermost linear and entire segments: racerne 
short, spicate-crowded: petals deeply notched, half inch leng: pedicels 
very short: calyx thin, very hairy, its lobes ovate acute or acuminate: car- 
pels small, smooth. Southwestern Oregon to California. 
S. campestris Greene l.c. Bristly hairs of the stem abundant, forked 
from the very base and deflexed: leaves soft beneath with stellate pubes- 
cence which becomes dense on the pedicels and calyx: stems erect, 2-6 
feet high simple or slightly branched above: lower leaves: orbicular, about 
9-lobed, the middle and upper 7-9-parted, their segments with 3-5 linear 
spreading lobes: racemes short: petals emarginate, an inch long: calyx 
lobes lanceolate acuminate, 3-nerved; carpels papillose-hirsute. In moist | 
places, Willamette valley. 
S. Oregana Gray Pl. Fendl. 20. Slender, 1-3 feet high, merely puber- 
ulent or glabrous up to the simple or paniculate racemes: foliage as in the 
preceding, but the segments narrower; lobes of the calyx canescent, 
broadly deltoid: petals 6-9 lines long: carpels obscurely rugulose-reticu- 
lated, at least on the dorsal angles and sides, the back smoothish. Com- 
Pipe in wet meadows and swales, British Columbia to California, east to 
aho. 
S. Hendersoni Watson Proc. Am. Acad. xxiii, 262. ‘Tall and appar- 
ently perennial (3 or 4 feet high), glabrous throughout, the stem simple or 
nearly so: leaves palmately 7-cleft to below the middle, the mostly broad 
segments coarsely lobed and toothed, the upper leaves 3-5-parted and the 
segments narrower: flowers large (9-12 lines long), in a loose raceme, the 
pedicels (1-3 lines long), shorter than the linear bracts: calyx large (46 
inch long in fruit), the leaves ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate : carpels 
few (8), smooth and glabrous, 2 lines long including the conspicuous lin- 
ear beak. Near the shore of Clatsop Beach, Henderson,’’ to Seattle, 
Washington, Piper. 
3 SPHARALCEA St. Hil. Pl. Us. t. 51, 
Herbs or shrubs with angular or lobed leaves and mostly 
showy flowers, solitary or fascicled in the axils of the leaves or 
bracts, or in terminal racemes. Involucre 2-3-leaved, setaceous, 
often deciduous. Calvx 5-parted, staminal column simple ; free 
filaments terminal and distinct, numerous. Styles 5 or more, 
with capitate stigmas. Ovules 1-3, one ascending and maturing, 
tne others pendulous and abortive. Fruit conical. Carpels 2- 
valved above, the upper portion where the seed is wanting thin- 
walled and smooth, the lower half rugese-reticulated on the sides. 
Seeds reniform. 
* Carpels 1-2, ovulate, the upper ovule when present abortive, at 
length directly deciduous from the axis, Malvastrum Gray, in part. 
S. Munroana Spach. Hist. Veg. iii, 353. Malvastrum Munroanum 
Gray. Grayish or hoary with dense. stellate pubescence, branching from 
the base, 1-2 feet long, usually spreading or ascending: leaves broadly 
ovate, usually cordate at base, more or less deeply 3-5-lobed, crenately 
or acutely toothed, 1-2 inches long, equalling or exceeding the slender pet- 
iole ; calyx lobes acute or acuminate, 2-4 lines long: petals’scarlet, broadly 
obovate, 6-10 lines long: carpels oblong 2 lines long, pubescent on the 
back. On gravelly banks along rivers, eastern Oregon and Washington to 
Nevada and Utah, 
* * Carpels 2-3 ovulate, 1-3 seeded: when separating from the 
axis cohering by their sides and at base held by akind of thread 
which at length either tears away from the back of the carpel or else 
is carried away with it. Tall perennial herbs. 
