Claytonia. PORTULACACE^. 199 



5-15 ; the lowest and often nearly all tlif pedicels minutely bracteate. Pe- 

 tiii, pale rose-color or red, with deeper-colored veins. — Variable in many re- 

 sfjects, but apparently distinct from the succeeding species. 



■/^. C. Caroliniana (Mi..hx'.): leaves ovate-lanceolate or oval, suhspatu- 

 late at the base, or abruptly decurrent into a petiole; radical ones very few, 

 spatulate ; pedicels slender, nodding ; sepals and petals very obtuse. — Miclu-. 

 Ji. 1. ]). 160; Ell.sk. I. c. C spathuluifoha, iSalisb. naiad. ImikI. i. 71 ; 

 Pursh,Jl. 1. p. 174 I Niilt. ! ^en. I. p. 152. C. Virginica /?. latilblia, Torr.! 

 fl. 1. /;. 259. C. Virginica y spathuWfolia, DC. I. c. ; Hook. I. c. 



In woods from the mountainoiii parts of N. Carolina and the Western 

 States ! to the northern parts of Canada ! and New-Brunswick ; west to the. 

 Rocky Mountains (ffooker): ahandantin somewhat mountainous situations 

 throughout the Northern States. April. — A smaller plant thnn C. Virginica. 

 Leaves from 1 inch or less to 2 inches loni', variable in shape ; particularly 

 the cauline leaves, which are sometimes exactly oval, v/ith a distinct petiole 

 half an inch long, sometimes nearly spatulate. — The name given by Mich- 

 aux is inappropriate, as the plant has a more northerly range than C. Vir- 

 ginica, and is lare in the Southern States. 



3. C. lanceolata (Pursh): root tuberous ; radical leaves (very feAv) ob- 

 long, on long petioles ; cauline ones elliptical, sessile, 3-nerved, with anasto- 

 mosing veins; raceme solitary, nodding; pedicels elongated, the lowest 

 bracteate ; petals deeply emarginate. Hook. — Pursh, Jl. l.p. lib. t. 3 ; Hook. ! 

 ji. Bor.-Avi. I. c. 



In the Rocky Mountains, Lewis ex Pur.'sh ; Drummond ex Hook. — We 

 quote the character of this species from Hooker ; whose specimens, smaller 

 than the plant figured by Pursh and with broader slightly notched petals, are 

 very similar, as Hooker himself remarks, to the preceding species, differing 

 indeed chiefly in the sessile cauline leaves. We have the same plant or a 

 form intermediate between it and C. Caroliniana, from Dr. Pitcher, collected 

 probably in Arkansas. The following is the character given by Pursh : " C. 

 foliis lanceolatis : cauUnis ovatis sessilibus, racemeo solitario elongato, calycis 

 folioli? brevibus obtusissimis, petalis cuneatis bifidis, radice tuberosa. — Flow- 

 ers white, nearly the size of C. Virginica.^ without veins." — We cannot help 

 suspecting that Pursh's figure is made up of two species, and that the flow- 

 ers at least belong to C. alsinoides. 



§ 2. Annual: roots fibrous : stems simple, with a single pair of opposite 

 often connate or 'perfoliate leaves : raceme terminal, often geminate or 

 compound. — Limnia. 



4. C. alsinoides (Sims): stems numerous from a slender root; leaves 

 reticulately veined, rhombic-ovate ; radical ones numerou';, on long petioles 

 abruptly acuminate; cauline sessile; racemes solitary or in pairs; pedicels 

 filiform, mostly solitary, bracteate ; petals cuneiform (white), acutely bifid at 

 the apex.— Sms, hot. 'mag. t. 1309 ; Pursh, JI. I. c. ; DC. prodr. 3. p. 361 ; 

 Hook. I. c. ; Bong. ! veg. Sitcha, in mem. acad. St. Petersb. (6. ser.) 2. p. 

 136. C. Unalaschkensis, Fisch. in Ra^.m. ^ Schult. sijst. 5. p. 434; DC. 

 I. c. 7 Limnia alsinoides. Haw. succ. si/n. p. 12. 



/?. rosea: flowers rose-color; leaves almost veinless. DC. I. c. — C. Sibirica 

 Bot. mag. t. 2243, ex Hook., not of Linnl 



y. heterophylla : radical leaves some of them ovate, others lanceolate; 

 cauline oblong-lanceolate, attenuate at the base; racemes 1-3; flowers pale 

 rose-color. — C. Unalaschkensis ft. heterophylla, Nutt. ! mss. 



Oregon, Menzies, Nnltall! to ^iicha, Bongard ! May-June. — Flowers 

 rather small (in all our indigenous specimens larger than in cultivated speci- 



