Sphceralcea. M AI.VACK.K. 315 



Hist. Veg. iii. 353; Gray, Proc. Am. Ac-ad. xxii. 292. Malta Munroana, IViugl. in LiucIL 

 Bot. Keg. t. l.JOO; llouk. Bot. Mag. t. ;J5.J7. & Fl. Bor.-Aiii. i. UMJ. .\utt,ill,a Munroana. 

 Nutt. Juiir. Acad. I'hilad. vii. IG. .)Jiiliiislnim Muunxnntm, (iniy. 1*1. Ffiidl. 21 (excl. Mtii ( ; 

 Wat.s. Hot. Kiiii,' Kxp. 47, partly.! — l)r> |,i;,i„.s i„u.ri,,r of Hril Coliimliia uiu»t U. Idaho, 

 .«(>utli tliroiigli Nevaihi and Llali jiL-rliaps to Nt-w M»-xit<. and Arizona i'' firet coll. by 



S. ambigua, (Ik.vy. Lc.*;s leafy, a foot to a yard liinl'. lonientuloMM-aneitcent : leaven 

 CTonnlatf tooilnil : inflorfsceme iikIVi- raccniiforni : petals roHonolor. varying to whiti-, half 

 inch to incii \o\\<i : talyx 4 to 6 lim-M long, with a»ute or acumiiiato hihc* Kurpaiwing 

 the moderately depres.sed fruit: carjiolM reniforui-oldong, cuniinonly 3 lin«>!i long (dt-ciduotia 

 and free at maturity). — Troo. Am. Acad. xxii. 2'J2. >'. Kmnnji, (iray, Bot. lv«» Hi-p. 

 8; Wat.s. 1. c. ])artly ; * not Ciray, I'l. Fendl. & I'l. Wright. — Arid plairn*. Ac, Arijuiua, 

 Nevada (the earliest collectors, Newbtrrij, J'ulmer, &c.) to S. California, Thurber, Xtrin, 

 Clerelund.* 

 S. suLi'iiiRKA, Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 113, 125, of Guadaloupo IMand off I>.wcr 



California, is a peculiar pale yellow-flowered species of this division, with hahit of the original 



^'. Cisplatinu, St. Ilil. 



= := Densely tomeutose : the leaves pannuse and calyx thickly woolly. 



S. Lindheimeri, Gray. Stems decumbent, a foot or two hmg : leaves round-cordate 

 (larger 2 inches long), very ol)Scurcly if at all lohed, irregularly or douldy crcnate : HoMi-m 

 more or less racemose at the ends of branches : calyx nearly half inch long: corolla rom- red. 

 the petals half inch long: mature car])els glabrous, oblong-rcniforni, much comprc«.Md. 2 

 lines long, narrowed in tlic middle; lower half strongly reticulate ruf^o.sc ; (*mo«'th up|H-r 

 half similarly rounded, commonly empty: ovules 2 or 3. — I'l. Lindli. jit. 2, 102; Wat*. 

 Bot. King Exp. 48, excl. syn. ; not Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 80.— Prairies of S. Texan, 

 Berlandier, Lindheimer. (Adj. Mex.) 



++++++ Leaves undivided, more or loss lanceolate, not rarely subhastately 3 IoIkhI : 

 pubescence close, cane.scent. 



S. hastuldta, Gray, a span to a foot high, with a.«cending stems leafy to the top: leaver* 

 slender-ijetioled, inch or two long, obscurely toothed or entire on the margin, some lanci-iv 

 late or oblong with cuneate or truncate ba.se, some with a jiair of short either aj«cending or 

 diverging lobes near the base, rarely with broader subcordate b.x<ie : flowers few, mostly 

 slender-pedicelled : petals orange-rod. half inch long: c.ilyx with triangnlar-lance<date loU>« 

 surpassing the slightly depro.s.sed fnuit : mature cari)els 3 lines long, ovate and w ith deep 

 reniform ventral excision, tipped with small deciduous cusp, often 2-s<'e<led, the sniiMitli 

 upper longer than the rugose-reticulated lower portion. — PI. Wright, i. I", & ii. 21 ; Watj«. 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 331. — S. Texas and New Mexico; first coll. by lirrhindirr. (Adj. 

 Mex.) 



S.* SUbhastAta, Coii.ter. Mudi like the last preceding species but usually lower and 

 frutesceiit : leaves smaller, thicker, very rugose an<l with somewhat coarser toinentnm : 

 flowers few, borne in the upper axils, somewhat smaller and more fleeply colonel th:ui in the 

 preceding: pedicels mo.stly only a line or two long: carp«'ls (.ice. to Coulter) without any 

 cu.sp at the tip. — Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. i. 32. ii. .38.— W. Texas. r/,;rUr, Il,„„r,l, 

 Nenllf'i/; ? Mimbres Mts., New Mexico. HV(V//i/ ; Arizona, Toumnj. (.\ form from Coaliuila, 

 Pn/mer, scarcely differs except in its larger Howers.) 



* * Fruit little or not at all depressed: carpels 2-3-ovulate. l-3soeded. mostly oblong ami 

 with some ventral excision, di.sposed to dors.il Jis well a.s ventral ilehi.Hcence. after fie|iani- 



1 Add syn. Mnlveopsls \fnnronnn, Kiintzc, Rev. (Jen. i. 72. 



2 Also Laramie, Wvomine, A. \il.i<>n. 



. 8 Add syn. .S. Fmoryl, Rrew. & Wats. Rot. Talif. 1.80; Greonp, Fl. Fr»nri». 1 10 (oxrl. »yn ). 

 s! }fonro„na, Poville, Contrib. V. S. Nat. Herb. iv. 74. as lo no. (1.14. apin-nr* hIm, I.. U- .s" .m^.y-rt. 

 ^ Mr. S. R. Parish of San Rernanlino. California. ha« calK-d attention to tho fart that ibrrr i. • 

 pnrpl.'-flowerpd form of .S. nmhifjttn at Palm Sprinir*. S. t'alifoniin. The !.pocir« aUo .hown ron«i.lrr. 

 able variation in the size of flowers, density of inrton'f.crnre, nhape and pidw^cnc* of leave*. Hut 

 these distinctions cannot as yet be correlated for a satisfactory specific or even varietal »ubdiviMon. 



