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lanceolate, entire; stipules oval, ciliate ; raceme short, dense, glandular- 

 tomentose ; pedicels very short ; lobes of the tomentose calyx ovate ; petals 

 white ; carpels 9-10, smooth and glabrous, (minutely apiculate at the inner 

 angle,) mucronate. — Stem 2-3° high, simple ; leaves often 8' in diameter ; 

 raceme leafy at base; petals 8-12" long; anthers blue. Rocky Mountains of 

 New Mexico and Colorado. Wahsatch Mountains, Utah; rare; 6,000 feet 

 altitude; July. (194.) 



Malvasteum coccineum. Gray. From the Saskatchewan to Mexico, and 

 west to the Rocky Mountains and Colorado River. Found on the foot-hills 

 near Salt Lake City and on Antelope Island, but not met with west of Salt 

 Lake. May, June. (195.) 



Var. GEOSSULAEi^FOLiUM, Torr. Tall, (2° high;) leaves exceedingly 

 variable in degree of dissection ; flowers large, petals often ^' long. Collected 

 by Tolmie in Southern Idaho ; by Wright in New Mexico, and also by Fre- 

 mont and Stansbury. It is very frequent through Northern Nevada to the com- 

 plete exclusion of the low eastern form, with which it cannot be confounded, 

 though it would be difficult to find specific distinctions. The cells are always 

 1-ovuled. Specimens from the Goose Creek Mountains, Northwestern Utah, 

 approach 3f. pedatifidum, Gray, of Texas and New Mexico, which, however, 

 has 1-2-seeded carpels, and is therefore a good Sphceralcea and apparently 

 the same as S. incana, var. dissecta. (196.) 



Malvasteum Muneoanum, Gray. {Malva, Dougl.) Scabrous with a 

 short stellate pubescence ; leaves cordate-orbicular, (or cuneate at base and 

 subrhomboidal,) crenate, often somewhat 3-5-lobed; flowers more or. less 

 densely fascicled along the leafless upper branches, forming an interrupted 

 spike ; bractlets setaceous ; calyx more or less densely tomentose, the lobes 

 broad-triangular; corolla purple ; carpels 10^12, nearly glabrous, not beaked. — 

 Stems 1-2° high, several from a woody base ; with much the habit of the last, 

 but readily distinguished by the more fascicled flowers, which are also smaller, 

 (petals ^' long,) and by the much less dissected leaves, which are rarely lobed 

 to the middle. It varies much in the density of the pubescence, in the compact- 

 ness of the fascicles, of which the flowers are sometimes nearly sessile, and in 

 the size and obtuseness of the calyx-lobes. The segments of the leaves are 

 also either very obtuse or somewhat acuminate. From Washington Territory 

 to Southern California, Arizona, and Sonora. Found on Stansbury Island, in 



