410 



LIMNANTHACEAE 



Valley, Jepson 5S04; Tomalcs Pt., M. S. Baker; Olcma, Jcpson 4040; Mill Valley, Marin Co., 

 Jepson 13,548; West Berkeley, Jepson 13,551; Walnut Creek, Brewer 1009; Pescadero, A. L. 

 Grant 943 (cor. yellow) ; San Andreas Lake, San Mateo Co., C. F. BaJcer 1916; Halls Valley, Mt. 

 Hamilton, Jepson 4213 (cor. white), 8237; Little Babbit Valley, San Benito Co., Jepson 16,132; 

 Santa Margarita, Jepson 8441, 11,968. 



Refs. — LiMNANTHES DOUOLASii R. Br. Lend. & Edinb. Phil. Mag. 2:70 (1833), type from 

 Cal., Douglas; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1673 (1835) ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3554 (1837) ; Jepson, Man. 

 592 (1925), excluding Sierra Nevada plants. Floerkea douglasii Baill. Nat. Hist. PI. 5:20, fig. 

 50-54 (1878) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 248 (1901), ed. 2, 244 (1911). 



Fig. 216. 



LiMNANTHES ROSEA Hartw. a, habit, X 1 ; &, petal base, 

 X 2; c, carpels with fruiting calyx, X 1. 



2. L. rosea Hartw. Valley Foam. (Fig. 216.) Stems more or less fleshy, 

 several from the base, ascending or erect, 4 to 12 inches high; petals broadly to 

 cuneately obovate, retuse or notched at summit, white, the nerves rose-color, com- 

 monly aging or fading rosy or with a tinge of rose, sparsely long-hairy inside, 6 to 

 7 lines long; nutlets grayish or light brown, densely set all over with rather thin 

 spreading scale-like tubercles or crests, the ridges or plates of the tubercles covered 

 with very minute or microscopic roundish granules furnished with microscopic 

 scales. 



Moist spots or "hog-wallows" on the valley floors or in the foothills, 40 to 1400 

 feet: Sacramento Valley; lower San Joaquin Valley. Apr.-May. 



Field note. — "In wet places four to five miles from Sacramento, especially in grain fields, it 

 forms large patches, often ten to fifteen feet in diameter. The succulent stems are procumbent. 

 The flowers are very fragrant and much infested by bees." — H. N. Bolander, Apr., 1865. 



Locs. — Willows, Jepson 13,552; College City, Ruth Johnson; Woodland, L. D. Lawhead; 

 Sacramento, Eamaley 11,027; Sweeney Creek, nw. Solano Co., Jepson 8257; Cannon sta., Solano 

 Co., Jepson 6783; Waverley, San Joaquin Co., Sanford; Moimtain Pass, Tuolumne Co., A. L. 

 Grant 625 j Byron, Greene. 



