Calandrinia. PORTULACACEiE. 197 



mens about 20.— Pursh ! fl. 2. -p. 365 ; Nutt. ! gen. 2. p. 6; Darlingt. ! Jl. 

 Cesl. ed. 1. 1. 3, ed. 2. p. 36'5. Pheraeranthus tcrctifolius, Jtc/f. speech. 1. p. 86. 

 Oq naked rocks, Westchester, Pennsylvania, Darlington! Virginia, 

 Pursh ! N. Carolina, Schweinitz ! West to the fails of the St. Croix, Dr. 

 Houghton! Arkansas, Dr. Pitcher! Nuttall! Dr. James! Texas, 

 Drummund ! June-Aug. — Perennial stems 1-3 inches long, throwing out 

 fibrous roots : annual stems about the same length. Peduncles 5-8 inches 

 high. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, very small, produced at the base. The 

 valves of the capsule on falling away leave a kind of replum in the form of 

 3 minute bristles. Placenta roundish, raised on a stipe. 



•f" 2. T. parviflorum (Nutt. ! mss.) : " small ; leaves slender ; stamens 

 5?-10." 



On rocks, Arkansas; with the preceding species, Nuttall! — A distinct 

 species, according to Nuttall, with much smaller flowers than T. teretifolium. 



3. CALANDRINIA. //. B. ^ K. nov. gen. 6. p. 77, f syn. 3. p. 376. 



Sepals 2, persistent, ovate, obtuse or acute, united at the base. Petals 3-5, 

 hypogynous, equal, raiely connate at the base, sessile. Stamens 4-15, hypo- 

 gynous, sometimes coherent with the base of the petals, with which, when 

 of the same number, they are often alternate. Style short : stigmas 3, 

 thickish, short. Capsule oblong or elliptical, 3-valved, many-seeded. Seeds 

 turgid, smooth and shining. — More or less succulent glabrous herbs. Leaves 

 alternate. Flowers axillary and solitary along the upper part of the stem, or 

 subracemose. 



This genus is intermediate between Talinum and Claytonia.. 



1. C. Menziesii (Hook.) : caulescent ; leaves linear-spatulate ; the lower 

 ones on long peduncles, with the margins naked; the upper ones glandulose- 

 ciliate ; sepals acutely carinate, glandulose-ciliate on the margins and keel ; 

 flowers peduncled, axillary. Hook. — Talinum? (Calandrinia?) Menziesii, 

 Hook.fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 223, t. 70. 



On the coast, south of the mouth of the Oregon, Menzies ex Hook., whose 

 specimens were in fruit only : a small plant ; stems 2-4 inches high. — Mr. 

 Nuttall has brought specimens, also in fruit, from St. Barbara, California, 

 which agree perfectly with Hooker's figure, except that the upper leaves and 

 sepals are very sparingly ciliate with minute processes of the cuticle rather 

 than hairs, which are moreover not glandular. We have the same plant from 

 Douglas's Californian collection in flower, with the margins of the leaves 

 almost wholly naked. The petals are rose-color or purple, rather longer than 

 the sepals ; the stamens 6-8, and the seeds numerous. 



2. C. speciosa (Lindl.) : glabrous, difi'use; leaves spatulate, acute, attenu- 

 ate into a petiole ; flowers racemed ; peduncles shorter than the bracts ; 

 petals longer than the calyx. Lindl. in hot. reg. t. 1598. 



N. California, Douglas, (v. s. cult.) — (J) Stems 4-5 inches high, ca;spi- 

 tose. Leaves fleshy. Raceme leafy : pedicels clavate. Sepals ovate, acute, 

 carinate. Petals (large) deep purple. Stamens 9-10. Lindl. 



3. C. maritima (Nutt. ! mss.) : " glaucous ; leaves all in a radical cluster, 

 obovate-spatulate, thick and fleshy, somewhat petioled ; obtuse ; stems scapi- 

 form, diffuse ; flowers in a subcorymbose raceme; pedicels longer than the 

 bracts ; petals longer than the broadly ovate acute sepals." 



St. Diego, California, on the sea coast, Nuttall ! May. — Flowers rather 

 large and showy, red. Nutt, 



