176 PORTULACE^. 



the middle, and with 5—7 subulate scarious bracts whorled at the joint : 

 sepals 6 — 8, broadly ovate, scarious-margined,. % — % in. long : petals 

 12 — 15, oblong, '%,~-^ i^- long, pinkish or white : stamens 40 or more ; 

 capsule broadly ovate, 34 ^^- long. — On Mt. Diablo, at the summit, 

 Brewer, and in hills east of Napa, Greene (1874) ; common far to the 

 northward and eastward of California. 



2. L. brachycalyx, Engelm. Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 400 (1868). Leaves 

 spatulate or almost linear : scapes jointless, bibracteate at base, shorter 

 than the leaves : sepals 4, herbaceous, ^^4 in. long : petals 7 — 9, oblong, 

 % in. long : stamens 10—15 : capsule shorter than the calyx. — In beds 

 of disintegrated granite on the eastern slope of the Sierra, in Fresno Co., 

 at 8,000 ft, altitude, Muir. 



• 3. CALA^^DRINIA, Humboldt, Bonpland <(• Kuatli. Sepals 2 only, 



subequal, persistent. Petals 3 — 10. Stamens 3 — 25, apparently always 



hypogynous. Capsule 3-valved from the summit, or cireumscissile at base. 



* Caulescent annuals; capsule 3-valved. — Calandkinia proper. 



1. C. Menziesii, T. & G. Fl. i. 197 (1888) ; Hook. Fl. i. 223. t. 70 (1833), 

 under Talinum: C. caulescens, var. Menziesii, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xxii. 277 (1887) in part. Rather slender and diffuse, the branches 3 — G 

 in. long : leaves linear-spatulate, mostly radical and long-peduncled ; 

 the upper and floral reduced and glandular-ciliate : sepals ovate, acumi- 

 nate, the margins and sharp keel glandular-ciliate : corolla little exceeding 

 the sepals, white or bright purple : stamens 3 — 10 ; seeds broadly ovoid, 

 shining. — From Santa Barbara, northward, through the Mt. Diablo 

 Bange, to Oregon. A small depressed glandular-ciliate and small flowered 

 species, apparently quite distinct from the next. Apr., May. 



2. C. elegans, Spaeh, Phaner. v. 232 (1836) : C. pulchella, Lilja, 

 Linnfea, xvii. 109 (1843) : C. speciosa, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1598 (1833), not 

 of Lehm. Larger and stouter than the last, glabrous, the decumbent 

 and ascending branches often 1 ft. long, flowering throughout : sepals 

 ovate, acute or acuminate, less sharply carinate, the keel and margins 

 entire or with a sparse short and flattened but in no wise glandular 

 ciliation : stamens 10 — 15 : corolla twice the length of the calyx, P4 in. 

 broad when expanded, bright rose-red : seeds larger, nearly orbicular. — 

 Very common throughout the Bay region and elsewhere in the State ; 

 passing currently for C. Menziesii. Apr. June. 



3. C. Breweri, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 124 (1876). Habit of the 

 preceding but still larger, the ascending branches often more than 1 ft. 

 high, glabrous : pedicels rather remote, in fruit deflexed : sepals 

 broadly ovate, truncate at base, surpassed by the long-conical m in, 

 long) capsule : seeds dull, tuberculate.— Collected only by Brewer, on 



