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MAL.VACEJE. 



species; corolla rose-purple, 6 to 8 lines long; carpels strongly 

 incurved, favosely rugose-reticulated. 



Sierra Foothills: Butte Co. to Calaveras Co. (and Mariposa Co. 

 acc. to Syn. FL). Coast Ranges: hills west of Rutherford, Napa 

 Valley. May. 



3. S. sulcata Curran. Annual, slender, unbranched, or sparingly 

 branched, 11 to 14 in. high; leaves small (mostly f in. long or less), 

 the lower crenate, the upper divided into about 6 often narrowly 

 linear divisions; stipules 1 to 2 lines long; raceme spike-like or loose, 

 few-flowered; calyx purplish, sparingly hairy; sepals narrowly ovate, 

 acuminate; corolla 8 or 9 lines long. 



Petaluma, J. W. Congdon; northern Sierra Foothills. May-June. 



4. S. calycosa M. E. Jones. Perennial; rootstocks creeping, 

 branched; stems green or purplish, very succulent, decumbent and 

 rooting freely below, \\ to 2^ ft. high; herbage glabrous below or 

 sparingly hirsute above; radical leaves 3 to 4 in. broad, crenately but 

 shallowly incised; cauline leaves divided into about 8 or 9 broadly 

 cuneate divisions; stipules round or ovate, acuminate, or obtuse and 

 toothed, green or purple, 3 to 6 lines long; flowers in terminal short 

 spikes; calyx rather densely covered with sandy-brown hairs, its 

 lobes ovate, acuminate, 3 to 6 lines long; corolla 1 in. long, lilac; 

 carpels grooved in the back or with the grooves sparingly interrupted 

 transversely, minutely reticulate on the sides, the slender beak weak 

 but persistent. 



Point Reyes; Sonoma Co. acc. to Syn. FL; rarely collected. 



5. S. malvaeflora (Moc. & Sesse) Gray. Stems erect (half- 

 decumbent at the very base), \\ to 2\ ft. high, several from a woody 

 perennial root, simple or rarely branched, retrorsely-hispid below with 

 scattered hairs, above slightly stellate-pubescent; basal leaves crenate 

 or crenately 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 fila- 

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

 sides. — (S. delphinifolia Nutt. and 8. humilis Gray.) 



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

 reduced form on hilltops. Last of Apr.-May. First collected by 

 Mocino, doubtless at Monterey as suggested by Gray. Sometimes 

 known to school-children as "Wild Hollyhock," or in Calaveras Co. 

 as "Wild Checker-bloom." 



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

 woody crown, erect, If to 3} 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 



