Nap(Ea. MAi.vACK.i:. ;;ij7 



narrow, linear to oblong and entire ; »|)iko niany-flowprc«l, at l«»npth plon^attMi ; hh.irt 

 jieiliiols ami calyx iniiiiiltly stilliiliir-|)iibtTiili'iit, the IhIm-s irian^iilar urtiininalv ('i linen 

 long) : petals 4 or 5 lints long, rose puriiic : larpelH nioHlly very hni"M.tli. — I'ru*-. Am. Acail. 

 xxii. 288. — Bear N'alley in the San Htrnanlino MounUiiuH, at 0,(KHJ f»-it, in wet |iiar<it. 

 Parish. 



* ♦ * Phalanges as in the last : iiiHorescem-e dense : leaves flalxllifomi <>r nnifnnn-orhicu- 

 lar, iTcnate, but none of them divided or jMirtetl. 

 S.* Hickmani, (Ireene. Tall leafy liMtsely stelliite j)nlM-scent i«rennial with haliil nf 

 Miilnislntni : leaves thin, the lower snboriiieuiar, the npper Haliellifnnn, larger, 1^ to 1} 

 inilies broad, rather deejjly erenate toothed but not loiied : (lowers nweniownpicato. nut 

 very crowded; jiedicels short; geminate' bnicts and involueellate bnictlets narrow, elon- 

 gated, linear, villous : rose-purple ])etals 8 lines in length : carpels glabrous, smooth exi*|it 

 for a few transverse wrinkles, which do not reach the middle of the baik. — Tittonia, i. I.'J9. 

 — Keliz Canon, Monterey Co., California,./. li. llirkmau. 



Var.* ( Parishii, KoniNSON, n. var. Lower in growth ami with shorter stellat*^ pulxr- 

 ulence rather than jiubescence : leaves of similar form but smaller, thicker, and less deejdy 

 crenate : bracts and bractlets broader, ovate t(j lance<date: flowers more criiwded, a third 

 smaller. — *?'. 1 1 ick- m<i ni, (Iveenc, Erythea, iv. G5, not of I'ittonia. — Western s1o|k- of San 

 Bernardino Mts., California, .S. /i. P<iiisli, no. 378G. Although certainly worthy varietal 

 rank, this plant, if observed at intermediate stations, will probably be found t<^ |»ass into th« 

 type. 



§ 3. Anomalous species, annual, witli freely braiicliin.u leafy sttiiis, vi(if(.rin 

 leaves, and glomerate inflorescence: flowers polygamo-ilitjceious : jdialanges of 

 the rather few stamens indistinct at very summit of the column. 

 S. malachroides, Gray.* Hirsute or soft-hispid with spreading stellate-fasci.led or wime 

 simple hairs : stem 3 to 6 feet high, equably leafy to the top: leaves angnlately 3-7-IoIkmI. 

 membranaceous, 2 to .') inches broad ; the broad lobes unei|ually or doubly dentate: riowers 

 in dense short (and either subscssile or pedunculate) terminal and axillary sj.ikes or hcails : 

 calvx naked or subtended by one or two slender-subulate caiiucous bractlets; ltd>es ovate, 

 acuminate : petals white or purplish, quarter inch or more long : <f flowers conimonly 

 pistiliferous and perhaps often fertile ; outer phalanges short and laciniate or 2-3-parte<l, 

 and the lobes 1-3-antheriferous, very do.se to the inner series of <listinct or geminate 

 stamens: ? flowers with few and abortive anthers or none, and with 7 to 9 smooth and 

 glabrous thin-walled carpels. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 332; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. K4 ; 

 Greene Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 80. S. vifi/olin, Gray, 1. c., a softer pube.>«cent and le.ss 

 hispid form. Malvn mnlarhroirles. Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 326; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 681 ; 

 Grav, PI. Fendl. 16. — California near the coast from Monterey to Mendocino Co.;* the 

 earliest collectors, Domjlas and Coulter. 



6. NAP^A, [Clayt.] L. Glade Mallow. (From laTn/, a glade, or N^.- 

 TraTat, dell-nymphs.) — L. Syst. Nat. ed. G, 120, & Spec. ii. GHG ; name lat.-r 

 ascribed by Linnaeus (Gen. ed. 5, no. 748) to Clayton ; Clayt. Fl. Virg. e<l. 2, 

 102; L. Amoen. Acad. iii. 18 (excl. N. herwaphrodita) ; Gray, PI. Fendl. 20, 

 & Gen. 111. ii. 55, t. 119. — Single species. 



1 In this, as in some other species of this genus, the Horal bracts of the primary axes aro morphcv 

 logicallv stipules of obsolete leaves. ^ 



2 Pmf E. L. Oreene has separated this species, at first (Fl. Francis. 106) as SuMcta \ IU$p<- 

 ralren, and later (Piftonia. ii. 301) as an independent genus, Ih^pernktn (II mnhckrvtJt* Urx^w, 

 1 c ) To the habital distinctions, which were quite well known to Dr. Gray. Pn.f. (.nH-nc a.lds on t 

 one of a te.hnicnl nature, namely, the form of the cot vled-ns. These he has observed to «- •»T"Ptlv 

 contracted at the ba.se, not cordate as in some species of S.Mr,.,. However tollmK this d.ffrr- 

 ence may prove in future, it is as yet unsatisfactory, the embryos ..f many .s.</„/c«<r ben.R •till 



unknown. , , , ,. n . ii. ,• ;■.„»..»... 



8 Southward to the Sta. Lucia Mts., .^fiss Fastwoo,!, and northward to Humbo!!- < -. h <»i.,..,n. 



ace. to Brandegee, Zoe, iv. 150. 



