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Rosa ultramontana (S. Wats.) 



Rosa Californica var. ultramontana S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 1 : 

 187. 1876. 



This was originally described as "tomentose but not gland- 

 ular: calyx-tube and pedicels glabrous: prickles straight and 

 slender. . . On the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, rang- 

 ing to the Rocky Mountains." 



Whether the form occurring in the Rocky mountains is 

 identical with the plant of the eastern slope of the Sierras, I do 

 not know, but R. ultramontana^ as observed by me last year 

 about Donner I^ake and along the Truckee river, is certainly 

 distinct from R. Californica^ and all the characters given by 

 Watson show that it is quite distinct. The original description 

 of R. Californica in lyinnaea, 3: 35. 1827, is as follows: 



Rosa quam e San Francisco retulimus, Californica, speciem 

 novam esse suspicamur specimina vero multa desideranda relin- 

 quunt. Rami glabri, aculeis stipularibus geminis, cetera uti 

 tota planta inermis. Aculei stipulares rectiusculi, subrecurvi, 

 patentes. Foiia trijuga, superiora bijuga; foliola ovata, obtusa, 

 argute serrata, impar maximum circiter 9 lin. longum, inferiora 

 minora; subtus cum stipulis petiolisque inermibus tomentosa, 

 supra pubescentia, omnino sicut tota planta eglandula, exceptis 

 glandulis raris sessilibus in margine stipularum. Flores in apice 

 ramorum subcorymboso-racemosi, 4-6; pedunculus pilis patulis 

 hirtus, in infera parte foliolo ovato, integerrimo, sessili, amplec- 

 tente (e stipulis folio deficiente transformatis enato) instructus. 

 Germen ovoideum glabrum. Laciniae calycinae ovatae longe 

 acuminatae, acumine apice dilatato spathulato, extus pubes- 

 centes, intus tomentosae, et tomento albo in margine densiori 

 ciliatae, albo-marginatae. Petala rosea. Flores magnitudine 

 circiter R. pimpinellifoliae. 



Sidalcea liyclropIiiJa 



Perennial, from a thick ascending rootstock: stems tall, 

 erect, 6-8dm. high, slightly pubescent below with stellate or 



