[Sidenote: =Arizona Wild Cotton=
_Thurbéria thespesioìdes (Ingenhouzia triloba)_
=White
Summer
Arizona=]
The only kind, a fine shrub, from four to eight feet high, with smooth
leaves, most of them with three lobes, and handsome cream-white
flowers, tinged with pink on the outside and measuring two inches
across. This grows in the mountains of southern Arizona and is
beautiful under cultivation, often growing to a height of six or eight
feet in a season.
There are a number of kinds of Sidalcea, difficult to distinguish;
perennials; leaves round in general outline, variously cut and lobed;
flowers showy, in terminal clusters; calyx with no outer bracts, or
with only one; stamen-column double; stigmas threadlike, distinguishing
them from Malvastrum and Sidalcea.
[Sidenote: =Rose Mallow=
_Sidálcea Califórnica_
=Pink
Spring
California=]
This has velvety leaves, those from the root much less deeply lobed
than the others, and a slender, slightly hairy stalk, one to two feet
tall, leaning to one side and bearing a loose raceme of rose-pink
flowers, with petals about an inch long. Only one or two flowers are
open at a time, but they are very pretty and conspicuous in open woods
and along the edges of fields, around Santa Barbara, in May.
[Sidenote: =Oregon Mallow=
_Sidálcea Oregàna_
=Pink
Summer, autumn
Northwest=]
A pretty plant, with one or more smooth, pale, branching stems, about
two feet tall, and dark green leaves, with conspicuous veins. The buds
are downy and the flowers are about three-quarters of an inch across,
with pale pink petals, prettily veined, shading to white at the center.
The anthers are white and the pistil, when the stigmas have expanded,
is prettily tipped with a tiny crimson brush.
[Illustration: Oregon Mallow--Sidalcea Oregana.