Portulacaceag, Purslame Family. 
hice 
< my ratner fleshy glabrous herbs with entire 
leaves, pepo or opposite “Plowers regular, perfect. Sepals &. Petals 
commonly 5, quickly withering. Stamens as many as the petals and opposite 
them, attached to their bases or sometimes numerous. Ovary superior, l- 
chambered. Fruit a capsule, valves < or 4, or circumscissile. 
PTs 
D Low spreading herbs, flowers sessile, not in terminal 
4 racemes |, Eortulaca 
OQ Low herbs, commonly erect; flowers on slender pedicels, 
recurving in age, disposed in terminal racemes, rather 
. ow for the most part § 
2 Stems from deep seated globose corms; leaves usually 
~ 2, opposite, subtending tne inflorescence cs Claytonia 
2 Stems from short tay roots, fibrous roots or root- 
stocks; leaves mostly basal, the upper alternate, 
err: a single pair and opposite, sometimes joined 
forming disc through which the stem passes mA Montia 
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