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81, 82. MALVASTRUM COCCINEUM: humilis, incanum; caulibus e basi sublignosa ramosis diffusis; foliis trisectis tripartitisve, segmentis lateralibus sæpius bipartitis intermedio trifido, lobis oblongis linearibusve integris seu paucidentatis; floribus inferioribus solitariis rariusve geminis in axillis foliorum, superioribus in racemum strictum digestis; bracteis subulatis deciduis; bracteolis involucelli 1–2 setaceis fugacibus; coccis 9–12 clausis dorso subtuberculatis cano-tomentosis. — Gray, Gen. Ill. t. 219. Cristaria coccinea, Pursh! Fl. 2. p. 453. Malva coccinea, Nutt.! Gen. 2. p. 81; Bot. Mag. t. 1643. Sida coccinea, DC. Prodr. 1. p. 465; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 108; Torr. & Gray! Fl. 1. p. 235. — Var. β DISSECTUM: nanum; foliis 3–5-partitis, segmentatis 3–5-fidis lobisque anguste linearibus. Sida dissecta, Nutt.! in Torr. & Gray, l.c.; Hook. & Arn.! Bot. Beech. Suppl. p. 327. — Plains, &c., Santa Fé, and east to Rock Creek and Poñi Creek of the Canadian; June to September. In flower and fine fruit. Some varying forms as to foliage are distributed under these numbers; under one of there are a few specimens of the var. dissecta, or of forms that evidently connect the Sida dissecta of Nuttall with the S. coccinea. I have for several years cultivated this species, from seeds brought from the Upper Missouri by Mr. Sprague, and has ascertained that its radicle is inferior, as in Malva. — An account of the genus, of which this is one of the typical species, is given in the subjoined revision of the genera allied to Malva.

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