46 BOTAJSTY. 



ous, clustered ; styles 3, distinct, erect ; capsules tricajpellary. — Steins ^2° 

 high ; leaves f long, very obtuse ; sepals, petals, and anthers dotted with black ; 

 placentEe united to the middle. From Washington Territory and California 

 to Colorado, New Mexico, and Sonora. Banks of mountain streams through 

 Nevada and Utah ; 6-8,000 feet altitude ; June-September. (189.) 



Hypericum mutilum, L. (?) From Canada to Lake Winnipeg, and south- 

 ward to Florida, Arkansas, and Texas. A single specimen that perhaps 

 belongs to this species was collected in the East Humboldt Mountains at an 

 elevation of 9,000 feet ; apparently annual; stem 3' high, simple, quadrangu- 

 lar, 2-3-flowered; sepals broadly oval, obtuse, IJ" long, equaling or exceeding 

 the oval petals ; stamens about 18, distinct ; capsule 1-celled, with 3 strictly 

 parietal placentae, exceeding the calyx ; black dots none. (190.) 



MALVACEAE. 



SiDALCEA^ MALViEPLOEA, Grray. {Sida, DC.) Grlabrous or somewhat his- 

 pid ; lower leaves roundish, more or less deeply 7-9 lobed, the cauline more 

 narrowly and deeply 5-7 lobed ; segments somewhat toothed ; raceme termi- 

 nal ; calyx tomentose, the lobes ovate, acute, or acuminate ; styles 7-8. — 

 Stem 1-3° high, simple ; radical leaves sometimes scarcely lobed, segments 

 of the cauline often linear and entire ; flowers variable in size, 1-2' in diam- 

 eter, occasionally white. From Washington Territory to Southern Cali- 

 fornia, Sonora, New Mexico, and Colorado. Meadows and stream banks 

 through Nevada and Utah; 6,000 feet altitude; June-September. The 

 large-flowered form has the petals emarginate, slightly oblique, and the outer 

 stamineal phalanges considerably longer than the inner. (191.) 



Var. With smaller flowers, petals (3-6" long) more oblique, the inner 

 phalanges equaling or exceeding the outer. (192.) 



Var. With sterile flowers, the petals nearly aborted and glandularly 

 ciliate. (193.) 



SiDALCEA CANDIDA, Grray. Plant. Fendl.^p. 24. Stem and petioles spar- 

 ingly hairy ; lower leaves orbicular, 7-lobed, smooth, ciliate, segments coarsely 

 3-5-toothed; upper leaves 7-lobed, (the floral ones 3-5-lobed,) segments 



' SIDALCEA, Gkay. Bractlets none. Calyx 5-cleft. Stamineal column doulile at top, tbe outer 

 of 5, and the inner of 10 phalanges of stamens. Ovary-cells 5-9, 1-ovuled ; styles filiform, stigmatoso on 

 the inner surface. Carpels memhranous, beakless, indehiscent, separating from the short axis. Seed 

 ascending. — Perennial herbs, -with rounded, mostly lobed or parted leaves, and flowers in a narrow ter- 

 minal raceme or spike. Bbnth. & Hook. 



