260 MALVACEAE. 



I't. Reyesj Sonoma Co. ace. to Syn. El.; rarely collected. 



5. S. malvaeflora (Moe. & Sesse) Gray. Checkee-bloom. Stems erect 

 (half-decumbenl at the very base), l'-_. to -' L . ft. high, Beveral from a woody 



perennial root, simple or rarely branched, ret rorsely-hispid below with scat- 

 tered hairs, above slightly stellate-pubescent J basal leaves crenate or cre- 

 nately incised or cleft into cuneate-obovate 2 to 4-toothed lobes; upper leaves 

 palmately twice cleft into linear or narrowly oblong divisions; raceme rather 

 loose. 3 or 4 in. to 1 ft. long; bracts ovate, herbaceous, often notched at apex; 

 flowers of two sorts: — one perfect with large corollas, the other pistillate with 

 small corollas; corolla of perfect flowers 8 to 12 lines long, the outer series 

 of filaments united for about half their length into sets of 4 or 2, the inner 

 filaments mostly distinct; corolla of pistillate flowers 5 to 7 lines long, the 

 filaments destitute of good anthers ; carpels rugulose-reticulate, at least on the 

 sides. — (S. delphinifolia Nutt. and S. humilis Gray.) 



High places of open fields in the valleys and on the plains, or in the foot- 

 hills. Apr.-May. Often called Wild Hollyhock. 



6. S. oregana (Nutt.) Gray. Stems few from a stout thick root or woody 

 crown, erect, 1% to 3*4 ft. high, nearly naked above, and either simple or 

 paniculately branched; leaves round in outline, shallowly cleft or toothed, the 

 lobes obtuse; cauline leaves incisely parted with the lobes toothed or cleft, or 

 the uppermost pedately divided into 5 to 7 lanceolate or linear mostly entire 

 divisions; spikes dense, oblong, 1 to 2 in. long, long-peduncled ; bracts nar- 

 rowly linear or subulate ; calyx-lobes ovate, acute, about as long as the tube ; 

 coroila rose-pink, 5 or 6 lines long; carpels semi-orbicular, slightly beaked, 1 

 line long, glabrous and smooth, or slightly wrinkled on the sides near the 

 dorsal angle. 



High mountains of Sonoma and Napa cos. to Mt. Shasta and northward. 

 duly-Sept. 



7. S. malachroides Gray. Stems stout, equably leafy to the summit, sev- 

 eral from a perennial root, simple below, ending above in a panicle of white 

 flowers in short dense spikes, or the panicle supplemented by some very slender 

 peduncle-like branches from the upper axils, each terminated by a spike; 

 herbage stellate-hispidulous; leaves palmately but shallowly lobed, unequally 

 dentate, 1 to 6 (mostly 2 to 3) in. broad; bracts linear or subulate; calyx- 

 lobes ovate, acuminate; staminate flowers with the filaments of the outer series 

 united for about % their length or less into pairs, or two such pairs slightly 

 united by their bases making a set of 4; carpels sometimes present; pistillate 

 flowers 3 to 3% lines long, the tube of filaments short, more or less truncate 

 and without anthers; carpels 7 to 9, half dehiscent by a dorsal suture. 



Seaboard species from the Santa Lucia Mts. and Santa Cruz northward to 

 Humboldt Co. and Crescent City. 



4. MALVASTRUM Gray. False Mallow. 



Serbs or shrubs, ours mostly hoary*tomentose or canescent, with commonly 

 angular Leaves. Flowers solitary or more commonly in narrow subpaniculate 

 racemes. Bractlets present (in ours), slender or filiform. Carpels 5 or more, 



1 to 3-seeded. the fruit often dehiscent and I'-valved. 9 1 ascending. (Malva, 



Mallow, and nsirr. disparaging Latin sutlix, not genuine or true.) 



Flowers solitary on long slender peduncles; petals white <>r rose-color: annual 



1. M. exile. 

 Flowers in subpaniculate racemes; perennials. 

 Herbage densely stellate-tomentose. 

 Leaves pentagonal or roundish; petals rose-color: Buffrutescenl 2. M. fremontii. 



