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79. SIDALCEA NEO-MEXICANA (sp. nov.): caule virgato gracili superne glabro inferne cum petiolis foliisque sparsim hirtellis; foliis radicalibus orbiculatis sinu apertis leviter 5–9-lobatis vel insico-crenatis, primariis basi subtruncatis, caulinis infimis profunde 7–9-fidis superioribus 5–3-partitis, segmentis 3-lobatis apice dentatis, supremorum linearibus integerriimis; racemo multifloro; pedicellis strictis calyce hirsuto duplo longioribus; corolla lilacina; coccis lævissimis angulo interno mucronato-apiculatis.— Vide. p. 20. Moist meadows, Sante Fé; June, July. (Also, a slender form with the lower leaves more divided, at San Juan de la Vequeria, Tamaulipas, Dr. Gregg.) — Plant 12 to 18 inches high, at first simple, with a long, virgate raceme, soon producing axillary flowering branches. Bracts mostly 3-cleft and as long as the pedicels. Calyx-lobes triangular-acuminate, growing longer and more slender with age, as in the S. Oregana. Petals nearly half an inch in length. It is a smaller and more slender plant than the S. Oregana. A full account of this genus is given in the subjoined note (p. 18 et seq.). The species have been for the most part referred to Sida, with which they have little in common excepting the naked calyx.

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