Sidnlcea. iMALVACE.E. 305 



miilr„flora,T)C. Trodr. i. 474 (Mocino & Sesse. Fl. Mcx. Ic. incd.. & Cal.|UP» <lo« Ik-jw. t. 70, 

 doul)tless lolLctid at M.-iiurev ; H;,'iire wants radi.-al leaves, showM well the liiHpidily of 

 stem and petioles, iiDtwiilislanclinf,' liie " {,'laltriuseula " of the I'r.MJr.j ; I look. & Am. Jiot. 

 Beech. 326. S. del,>hi„lfoli,i, Nutt. in Torr. & CJrav. Kl. i. 2.15. form with niosth diK-.tH 

 leaves. NuttaUia mali;iji„ra, Fisili. & Trautv. in Kiseh. & .Mev. Ind. ."seni. Ilort. I'.troi,, iji. 

 1837, 41. — Low groun.is and hillsiiles alon|,' and near the toa.s't, from San Die^^o to .Mendo^ 

 ciuo Co., California; first coll. by Moriho & Stsse. 



S.* parviflora, Gkkkne. Stems several, .|uite glal.nnis toward the hawe, Huhsiniple, tornii- 

 natiiii; in lung slender loose racemes: lowest leaves orl.icular, creniitet.M.thed, the' otlieni 

 deeply divided, with divisions lohed: llowers small; pedicels (2 to 3 lines long) Mil.tende.l 

 by simple linear bractlets scarcely their own length : caly.x wiinewhat hin»»i«' pulH'»«-.-nt : 

 petals a third to half inch long : car|)els glabrons, at letigth distinctly rctiiulated ; Ih-hIc 

 somewhat recurved.— Erythea, i. 148. 6'. malmjlom, Torr. Hot. .M.-.x." Itound. 3H. in part, 

 not Gray. — Meadows, S. California, L<js Ang«les Vo., J.i/<.n, J/ass,, San IJernardino Co.] 

 Parish, Miss Cummiii</>i. (Sonora, at Ojo de Cavilan, where first coll. by Thuilnr in 1851 ) 

 Chiefly distinguished from the preceding by the smooth stem and considerably smaller 

 flowers borne in longer more slender racemes. Prof. Cireene (1. c.) states that .Mr. I'arisirM 

 specimen (no. 2080) was referred by Dr. Gray to S. i/laurisreus. It wiis collected, however, 

 in May, 1889, more than a year after Dr. Gray's ileath. 



Var.* (?) Thlirberi, KoniNsoN, n. var". A foot high: leaves small, chiefly basal; 

 those of the almost naked stems sparse, divided into narrow linear segments : flowers w hilo. 

 — Las Playas, Sonora, near the U. S. boundary, Thurher, 334, 340, and perhaps als<j in New 

 Mexico or Arizona. 



S. asprella, Greene. No hirsute or hispid pube.scence whatever : stem 2 to 5 feet high, 

 siiiiiile, rtjughish with minute and deu.se stellular almost scurfy i)ul)C.scence, r)r Udow gla- 

 brous : leaves moderately lobed or only uppermost dissected, i>ube.scent with few-ra\ed short 

 stellular hairs : raceme virgate, loosely flowered, very naked : pedicels sometimes longer 

 than fruiting calyx, commonly very short: petals usually inch hmg : calv.x cane.Hcent, in 

 fruit mostly 5 lines long; lobes from ovate l)ecoming triangular-lanceolate : carjiels rugoso- 

 reticulated throughout and glabrous at maturity, becoming concave or gnMived on the baik 

 and acute-angled at sides. — Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 78, founded on a lax and decundiont 

 leafy state, perhaps from growing in thickets; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 28r,.— Ilillsidett 

 of the lower Sierra Nevada, from Yuba to Siskiyou Co., Greene, Mrs. Citrran ; at Cliico de- 

 scending to the low foot-hills, where the stem is strict. 



S. Campestris, Greene. Either glabrous up to the inflorescence or with some hirsute 

 ])uboscence at least below and close stellular cinereous pubescence alM)ve : stems 2 to 5 feet 

 high, when large branching aI)ove : rounded lower leaves variously lobed ; ujiiK-r usually 

 5-7-parted into narrow divisions: racemes strict, either rather dense and spiciform or 

 more loosely flowered: petals over half iiut rarely full inch long, their emarginate summit 

 often laciniate-erose : calyx 4 or 5 lines long at least in fruit, minutely caue.scent, some- 

 times also with soft slender hairs, sometimes nearly glaltrous; the lobes in age u>ually lan- 

 ceolate-acuminate: carpels roughish rugose- or favose-rcticulated and otmnmnly piilK>s<ent. 

 the back rather rounded and dorsal angles obtu,<e. — Hull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 7f> (founded 

 on one form) ; Gray, 1. c. S. On'i/nna, Gray. PI. Femil 20. j>artly.' Si(/(i mtilm floni, Lindl. 

 Bot. Keg. t. 1036; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 108— Moist meadows, where usually smooth or 

 glabrate, or dry hills or plains, there more puliescent and base of stem with nidical potiolen 

 hirsute with deflexed or spreading hairs, N. California to Hrit. Columl»ia w«'st of the Ca.«cade 

 Kange ; first coll. by Dotifflas. 



S. Oregana, Gray. Very like the last preceding, merely pnlierulent or nearly glabroim 

 up to the inflorescence, 2 to 5 feet high : racemes simple or comnioidy paniculate, at length 

 loosely flowered: flowers comparatively small: petals a tiiird to half inch lonj; : calyx 

 canescent, in fruit 2 or 3 lines long and the lobes broadly deltoiil : carjwds ob.-iurely rugnlom-- 

 reticulated, at least the dor.sal angles and siiles, the back smooth or sm<M>thish — PI. Fentll. 

 20, partly, & I'roc. Am. Acad. xxii. 287. Sitla Omjaiia, Nutt. in T.)rr. & Gray, Fl. i. 5134. 



1 .Vdd syn. ? S. mnU-nJlorn, Mncoim, Cat. Cimad. PI. ii. 313. 

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