brous; petiole one-fifth the length of the lamina; stipules setaceous; peduncles
axillary, 1-flowered, usually longer than the petiole; sometimes several
at the summit of the branches; carpels 9- 10, smoothish, slightly bimucro-
nate.— S. gracilis, Ell. sk. 2. p. 159, not of Richard.
Sandy soils ; South Carolina, Elliott; Georgia, Dr. Boykin | Florida,
Croorn! Dr. Chapman! May-Aug.—If Stem 2-4 feet high, with spreading
branches. Leaves 1-24 inches long, variable in breadth, often quite linear
and 1-2 lines wide, sometimes 3-4 lines in breadth, serrate the whole
length, with a few scattering hairs on both surfaces. Flowers an inch or
more in diameter. Segments of the calyx broad, acuminate. Petals emar-
ginate, orange-yellow. Styles united above the middle ; stigmas capitellate.
Carpels united in a depressed spherical head.—Much resembles S. angusti-
folia, but that species has 5 bicuspidate carpels.
4. & glabra (Nutt.): glabrous; leaves linear-oblong and lanceolate, in-
cisely and unequally serrate, on short petioles ; flowers axillary, aggregated;
carpels about 10, bidentate. Nutt, in jour. acad. Philad. 7. p. 90.
/?. 1 stem suffruticose, minutely pubescent; leaves rhombic-oblong ; pedicels
shorter than the petioles.
y. ? stem herbaceous, tall; leaves rhombic-oblong; pedicels longer than
the petioles.
East Florida, Mr. T. R. Peale. /?. Key West, Rev. A. Bennett!
V. Tampa Bay, Florida, Dr. Burrows /—Stem scarcely more than a span
high. Leaves about an inch long. Stipules setaceous. Flowers small and
yellow, at length so aggregated as to crowd the branches. Calyx very wide,
angularly plaited ; segments acuminate. Nutt. — d. Stem branching from
the base, 8-12 inches long. Leaves about 1 4 inch long and f of an inch
wide.—y. Stem 2 feet or more in height. Leaves 2-4 inches long, and 1-1J
inch wide: petiole about 3 lines long, with a tumid articulation near the
lamina. Peduncles 2-3 times as long as the petiole. Flowers yellow, nearly
an inch in diameter : petals broadly cuneate, emarginate. Stigmas capitellate.
Carpels 10, bimucronate.
5. S. hispida (Pursh) : hispid ; leaves lanceolate, serrate; peduncles solitary,
axillary, as long as the petioles; exterior calyx filiform. Pursh, fl. 2. p.
452; Ell. sk. 2. p. 160.
Sandy soils, Georgia, Lyon (ex Pursh) ; South Carolina, Elliott. July-
Aug.—=• If 1 Stem 12-18 inches high, branching, stellately tomentose rather
than hispid. Leaves somewhat rhomboidal, a little hairy on both surfaces:
petioles 1-2 lines long. Stipules subulate, hairy, longer than the peduncles
or petioles. Flowers on small axillary branches, so crowded and so nearly
sessile that they appear fascicled. Calyx angular, hairy. Petals yellow, a
little longer than the calyx. Fruit not seen.—There is no exterior calyx,,
but the stipules are very often found adhering to the calyx, as if connected
with it. Elliott.—We have not seen this species.
* * Peduncles elongated: leaves ovate, oblong or linear.-
6. S.Jilicaulis: stems very slender, hispid ; leaves ovate-oblong, cordate
at the base, serrate ; petiole as long as the lamina; flowers axillary, solitary;
earpels 5, 2-beaked.
Texas, Drummond /— (T) 1 Stem 2 feet long, clothed with spreading
hairs. Leaves 5-7 lines long, 14-24 lines wide, rather obtuse. Stipules
minute, setaceous. Peduncles nearly an inch long, very slender, articulated
near the flower. Calyx hemispherical; segments broad, acuminate. Carpels
pubescent, with 2 short rather erect horns.
7. 8. rhombifolia (Linn.): minutely pubescent; leaves rhombic-oblong,
toothed-serrate, cuneate and entire at the base; petioles short, with a slightly
spinose tubercle at the base; peduncles much longer than the petioles; stipules
setaceous; carpels 10-12, with 2 subulate horns.—Michx.! fl. 2. p.
43; Pursh, fl. 2. p. 452; Ell. sk. 2. p. 161; DC. prodr. 1. p. 462.
Sandy soils, South Carolina (Elliott) and Georgia! to Florida! May-
July— 2f Stem 1-2 feet high. Leaves 1-2 inches long, rather obtuse:
petioles 2-3 lines long. Peduncles mostly axillary, much longer than the
petioles, and sometimes longer than the leaves, articulated about half an mch
below the flower. Calyx angular; segments very broad,- With a short acu-
mination. Petals obovate, yellow, 4-5 lines long.
* * * Leav'es cordate, riot lobed.
8. 8. Hulseana: stem hispidly pilose; leaves orbicular-ovate, abruptly
acuminate, tomentose beneath with a whitish velvety pubescence, roughish-
tomentose above, crenate-dentate; peduncles axillary in the upper leaves,
several-flowered ; styles about 12. .
Tampa Bay, Florida, Dr. Dulse !—Leaves 3 inches or more in diameter ;
the sinus deep and closed. Flowers an inch and a half in diameter, purplish:
pedicels very short. Petals broadly obovate.—We have not seen the
capsules of this species. It may belong to the genus Abutilon.
9. S. ? obliqua (Nutt, mss.) : leav'es reniform-cordate, very oblique at the
base, rounded at the summit, scabrous-tomentose, strongly reticulately veined
beneath, erenulate-dentate; peduncles axillary, solitary, 1-floWered, recurved
after flowering; bracteoles 2, setaceous; petals oblong, stellately hairy externally;
carpels 7, pointless. .
On the Wallawallah River, Nuttall!— If Stem low, clothed with a
roughish stellate pubescence. Leaves 1-14 inch wide, the width exceeding
the length: petioles nearly as long as the lamina. Flowers as large as in
Malva rotundifolia. Peduncles rather shorter than the leaves. Calyx cleft
below the middle, with 2 short deciduous bracteoles at the base. Styles
united below: stigmas capitellate. Carpels pubescent, rather acute, but not
horned.—Mr. Nuttall considered this plant a Malva,; but finding the seeds
to have the radicle superior, we refer it to Sida, notwithstanding the bracteo-
late calyx.
10. S. Californica (Nutt.! mss.): velvety-tomentose; leaves orbicular-
cordate, laciniately toothed (scarcely lobed); the radical and lower cauline
ones on very long petioles ; flowers in a térmmal raceme: stamineal column
short, double; the exterior 5-lobed, antheriferous at the summit; styles about
7; stigmas long, simple.
St. Barbara, Upper California, Nuttall |— If About 15 inches high.
Leaves 14 inch in diameter; the uppermost slightly 5-lobed. Stipules subulate,
small. Raceme naked: flowers on short pedicels, about 14 inch in diameter.
Calyx cleft below the middle; segments ovate-lanceolate. Petals
purple, cuneate-obovate, somewhat emarginate. Stamineal column 4 the
length of the petals. Capsules not seen.
* * * * Leaves palmately lobed or many-cleft.
11. 8. Napcea (Cav.)Cleaves palmately 5-lobed, nearly glabrous; the
lobes oblong, acuminate, toothed; peduncles many-flowered; carpels 10,
acuminate. DC.—Cav. diss. 5. p. 277. t. 132. f . 1; Pursh, fl. 2. p. 453;
DC. prödr'. 1. p. 466. Napa:a laevis, L in n .; Lam. ill. t. 579. ƒ. 1.
Shady rocky places, Pennsylvania (Muhlenberg) to Virginia, Pursh.
(v. v. in hort.) July.— If Stem 2-4 feet high glabrous. Leaves 4-5
inches in diameter, minutely pubescent, but not scabrous; lobes unequally
and coarsely toothed, the middle one longest. Peduncles axillary in the
Uppermost leaves and at the summit of the branches, 2-4 flowered. Segments
of the ealyx roundish-ovate. Petals- obovate, white, twiee as long as>