siDALCEA MALVACE^. 101 



what decumbent, hairy or nearly glabrous : leaves round-cordate, erenate, 

 more or less strongly 5-7 lolxid ; peduncles axillary, solitary or clustered, 

 1-3 lines long: calyx-lobes acute, becoming very broad and enlarged in 

 fruit: petals 2-3 lines long: capsule transversely reticulate-rugose. A 

 weed from Europe, on the Coast from Puget Sound to Lower California. 



M. ROTuxDiFOLiA L. Stems prostrate from a perennial root, 6-20 inches 

 long, leaves cordate-orbicular, obtusely 5-lobed and erenate on elongated 

 puliescent petioles : pedicels axillary, 1 -flowered involucral bracts ob- 

 long-linear: calyx lobes acutely triangular: petals 4-6 lines long, pale 

 purple: carpels numerous, wrinkled. Koadsides and waste grounds; in- 

 troduced from Europe. 



2 iSIDALCEA Gray PI. Fendl. 18. 



Herbs with more or less deeply lobed leaves and purple or 

 white flowers in a terminal raceme or spilie : involucre none : ca- 

 lyx 5-parted. Staminal column double, the filaments of the 

 outer series united ut-ually into 5 sets opposite the 5 petals, of 

 the inner distinct. Styles filiform, stigmatic on the inner face. 

 Carpels 5-9, with a single ascending seed in each, separating at 

 maturity from the short axis, sometimes beaked, indehiscent. 

 Ours all perennials. 



* Pubescence not hirsute. 



S. glancescens Greene Bull. Cal. Acad: 3, 77. Minutely stellate-pub- 

 escent, and somewhat glaucous throughout : stems numerous and decum- 

 bent, 2 feet high, rather slender : leaves, even the lowest, palmately 5-7- 

 parted, the erenate divisions 3-5 lobed or toothed, those of the uppermost 

 entire : raceme simple, loosely flowered : divisions of the calyx attenuate- 

 acuminate: petals deep purple, obtuse or at most only truncate : carpels 

 with distinct longitudinal reticulations. Oregon, Hall; station not noted 

 to Mount Shasta and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California. 



S. malvseflora Gray PI. Wright i, 16. Stems 2-1 feet high, erect or a 

 little decumbent, mostly solitary from a fusiform root : hirsute below and 

 on the calyx and pedicels ; short, stellate pubescence wanting : leaf mar- 

 gins ciliate: radical leaves orbicular with open sinus and 5-9 shallow, 

 crenate-incised lobes : the uppermost cauline 5-7-parted into linear, entire 

 segments: raceme usually solitary, virgate : pedicels erect, twice the length 

 of the calyx, the lobes of which are broadly ovate, acuminate: carpels 

 smooth, depressed. Idaho to Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. 



S. virgata. h'tellate pubescent throughout : stems nurnerous from the 

 thick somewhat woody root, spreading or ascending, sparingly branched, 

 6-24 inches high : leaves orbicular in outline, 1-4 inches in diameter all 

 petioled, the lower more or less deeply 5-7 lobed, the obtuse, oblong lobes 

 coarsely toothed at the apex, densely stellate-pvi bescent beneath, more 

 sparsely so with more simple appressed hairs above: upper more deeply 

 lobed" or parted with linear-acute or acutish entire or sparingly toothed 

 segments : floM'ers bright purple in virgate racemes : bracts setaceous, 

 calyx lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 2-3 lines long, rounded, or retuse and 

 minutely erose-dentate at the apex. Common on dry hillsides, Willam- 

 ette valley to the northern boundry of California. 



*■ * Pubescence of two kinds, hirsute and stellate. 



S. spicata Greene 1. c. 76. Bquablj- hispid-hirsute throughout, tha 

 hairs simple and not deflexed, stellate pubescence sparse, mostly confined 

 to the under surface of the leaves and the calyx where it is minute : stems 

 2 feet high I strict and simple, or with a few short branches above : lowest 

 leaves orbicular, lobes and teeth shallow, rounded; cauline parted into 7 



