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8. Talinum confertiflorum Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 8: 121. 1881. 
Type Locauity: Pinos Altos Mountains, New Mexico. Type collected by Greene. 
Ranae: New Mexico. 
‘New Mexico: Sandia Mountains; Mogollun Mountains; Hanover Hills; Organ 
Mountains. 
9. Talinum parviflorum Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 197. 1838. 
Type Loca.ity: ‘‘On rocks, Arkansas.” 
RanGe: Minnesota to Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. 
New Mexico: Las Vegas; Pecos; Hop Canyon; Tortugas Mountain; Nara Visa; 
near Dora. Open hills, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 
4. CLAYTONIA L. Sprine BEAvTY. 
Succulent perennial herbs with fleshy roots and narrow basal or cauline leaves; 
flowers white to pink, in naked, loose, terminal, simple or paniculate racemes; sepals 2, 
persistent; style 3-cleft; capsules 3-valved, with 6 or fewer seeds. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. - 
Plants with rounded corms; basal leaves 1 or 2, not spatulate....... 1. C. lanceolata. 
Plants with fleshy taproots; basal leaves numerous, spatulate....... 2. C.megarrhiza. 
1. Claytonia lanceolata Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 175. 1814. 
TypE Loca.iry: “On the Rocky Mountains.”’ 
Rance: British Columbia and Wyoming to California and northern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Pass southeast of Tierra Amarilla; Willow Creek. Moist ground, in 
the Transition Zone. 
2. Claytonia megarrhiza (A. Gray) Parry; S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. 118. 1878. 
Claytonia arctica megarrhiza A. Gray, Amer. Journ. Sci. II. 83: 406. 1862. 
Type LocaLity: Rocky Mountains of Colorado. 
Ranae: Washington and Alberta to Colorado and northern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Top of Truchas Peak; Wheeler Peak. Arctic-Alpine Zone. 
5. CRUNOCALLIS Rydb. 
Slender stoloniferous perennial, the stems rooting at the nodes; leaves oblong or 
oblanceolate, fleshy; petals white, 3 or 4 times as long as the sepals; stamens 3 to 5; 
ovary 3-ovuled. 
1. Crunocallis chamissonis (Ledeb.) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 33: 139. 1906. 
Claytonia chamissonis Ledeb.; Spreng. Syst. Veg. 1: 790. 1826. 
Montia chamissonis Greene, Fl. Franc. 180. 1891. 
TyYpE LocA.Lity: Unalaska. 
RanaeE: Alaska, British Columbia, and Minnesota to California and New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Ponchuelo Creek; Chama. Wet ground, in the Transition Zone. 
6. OREOBROMA Howell. 
Low perennial with fleshy thick roots and numerous narrow basal leaves; stems 
mostly 1-flowered, bearing a pair of reduced bractlike leaves; sepals 2, entire, ovate, 
obtuse; petals large, pink or reddish; capsule circumscissile near the base. 
1. Oreobroma nevadensis (S. Wats.) Howell, Erythea 1: 33. 1893. 
Calandrinia nevadensis S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 623. 1873. 
Lewisia nevadensis Robinson in A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 1!: 268. 1895. 
Type Locauity: “Subalpine region of Wahsatch and East Humboldt Mountains,”’ 
Nevada. 
