572 MISC. PUBLICATION 4 2 3, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



3-divided, otherwise entire leaf blades, distinguish this from all other 

 species of the genus. 



16. Sphaeralcea coccinea (Pursh) Rvdb., Torrey Bot. Club Bui. 40: 



58. 1913. 



Cristaria coccinea Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 453. 1814. 

 Malvastrum coccmeum A. Gray, Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. 

 Mem. ser. 2, 4: 21. 1849. 



Apache County to Coconino County, 5,000 to 8,000 feet, dry plains 

 and mesas, often associated with grasses, sometimes among pinyons 

 and junipers, summer and autumn. Saskatchewan and Alberta, 

 south to Texas, New Mexico, and northeastern Arizona. 



This widely distributed species is represented in Arizona by: (1) 

 Approximately the typical form with relatively broad leaf lobes of 

 nearly equal length; (2) var. dissecta (Nutt.) Kearney, with more 

 narrowly lobed leaf blades and denser pubescence; (3) var. elata 

 (Baker) Kearney, with a more elongate midlobe and with the smooth, 

 dehiscent portion of the carpels relatively larger. Specimens with 

 distinctly cuspidate carpels, referred doubtfully to the last variety, 

 may be hybrids with S. subhastata. 



4. ILIAMNA. Wild-hollyhock 



Plant herbaceous above the caudex; herbage sparsely stellate- 

 pubescent; stems tall, leafy; leaf blades rather shallowly 3- to 7-cleft, 

 with broad, triangular lobes; flowers in long, interrupted, thyreoid 

 panicles; involucel of 3 narrow, persistent bractlets; corolla pink or 

 white; column stellate-hirsute below; carpels not reticulate, dehiscent 

 to the base or nearly so, remaining attached to the axis by threads; 

 ovules and seeds usually 3. 



1. Iliamna grandiflora (Rydb.) Wiggins, Dudley Herbarium Contrib., 

 Stanford Univ. 1: 223. 1936. 



Sphaeralcea grandiflora Rydb., Torrev Bot. Club Bui. 31: 565. 



1904. 

 Phymosia grandiflora Rydb., Torrey Bot. Club Bui. 40: 60. 



1913. 



South Canyon, Kaibab Plateau, Coconino County, in damp places 

 (P. Mead in 1929), flowering in summer. Southwestern Colorado, 

 northern New Mexico, and northern Arizona. 



A handsome and showy plant with petals 2 to 3 cm. long and large, 

 maplelike leaves. 



5. MALVA. Mallow, Cheeseweed 



Plants annual or biennial, sparsely pubescent or glabrate; leaf 

 blades orbicular or reniform; flowers small, axillary, solitary or in 

 small cymules, short-pediceled; petals white or pink; style branches 

 filiform, introrsely papillate; fruit depressed, disklike, the carpels 

 numerous, compressed, reniform, indehiscent. 



The plants are reported to be boiled and eaten by the Indians in 

 times of scarcity. Both species are natives of the Old World, exten- 

 sivelv naturalized in the United States. 



