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BOTANY. 
Strait; California, (Brewer;) New Mexico, (Fendler,) and Colorado. Found 
in the Walisatcli Mountains, -Utah ; 8,000 feet altitude ; July. (175.) 
Sagina nivalis. Fries (?) Csespitose ; stems very short, erect ; leaves 
subulate, mucronate, glabrous ; peduncles short, strict ; sepals 5, ovate, ob- 
tuse, with membranous margins, scarcely equaling the petals. — The single 
specimen accords well with Norway specimens from Blytt, in Herb. Eaton., 
but differs from the character in its pointless leaves, and petals shorter than 
the calyx. Stems very short, scarcely ^' high, erect ; leaves more subulate 
than in the last ; sepals margined with purple, broad-ovate and very obtuse. 
Uinta Mountains, Utah ; 12,000 feet altitude ; August. (176.) 
Spergulaeia media, PresL On the coast and in salt marshes from Florida 
to Newfoundland, in Central British America from Lake Winnipeg to Bear 
Lake, and from Washington Territory to California. Found at a salt spring 
in Parley's Park, (Wahsatch Mountains,) Utah ; 6,000 feet altitude ; June, 
July. (177.) 
PORTULACACE^. 
PoRTULACA OLERACEA, L. Near Unionville, Nevada. (W. W. Bailey.) 
Introduced. (178.) 
Talinum pygm^um, Gray. Pioc. Amer. Acad. 7. 332. Acaulescent; 
root fusiform ; the linear leaves and 1— 3-flowered scapes (1-2' high) crowded; 
sepals orbicular, glandular-dentate or entire, persistent ; petals white or rose- 
color, 5-6 ; stamens 4-7 ; stigmas 3-5 ; seeds few (6) to many. — With 
wholly the habit of a Claytonia; petals slightly united at base, unequal. 
Rocky Mountains, Colorado ; Sierra Nevada, California ; Cascade Mountains, 
Washington Territory. Usually alpine or subalpine ; in the East Humboldt 
Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch and Uintas; 6-10,000 feet alti- 
tud e ; J une- Au gu st. (179.) 
Claytonia Caroliniana, Michx., Var. lanceolata. (C lanceolata, 
Pursh.) Cauline leaves ovate, lanceolate, or linear, sessile or short-petioled ; 
petals more or less emarginate or entire, rose-color or white. — This can 
hardly be more than a variety of the eastern species. The leaves are very 
variable in width, but never exceeding 1-2' in length ; the venation is the 
same in both forms. Northern Arizona, (Ives,) and the Rocky Mountains 
of Colorado and northward to lat. 52°. Havallah Range and East Hum- 
