464 PORTULACACEAE 



Vandeventer, San Jacinto Mts., Jepson 1425; Cuyamaca, T. Brandegee ; Del Mar, K. Brandegee; 

 San Bernardino, Parish 4187; Santa Inez Mts., Dunn; Santa Cruz Isl., Brandegee. 



Ret. — Calyptridium monandrum Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. 1: 198 (1838), type loc. San Diego, 

 Niittall. 



2. C. roseum Wats. Annual ; stems several from the base, decumbent, 1 

 to 3 lines long; leaves oblong-spatulate, 3 to 8 lines long, the basal ones few; 

 flowers in very short scorpioid spikes; sepals orbicular-reniform, very shortly 

 acute, green herbaceous with scarious margins, 1 to l^/o lines long; petals 2, 

 minute : stamen 1 ; capsule not exceeding the calyx, 6 to 12-seeded. 



Attributed to Telescope Peak. Panamiiit Range, by Coville with some doubt. 

 Western Nevada to Oregon and Wyoming. 



Loes. in Nev. — Miller Mt., Esmeralda Co., Shock-ley 666; Kagle Valley, Ormsby Co., C. F. 

 Baler 1027. 



Refs. — Calvptrimum roseum Wats. Bot. King. 44. pi. 6, fig. 6-8 (1871), type loc. Truckee 

 and Monitor valleys. Nev.; Gov. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 73 (1893). 



3. C. parryi Gra}^ Annual ; stems several from the base, prostrate, 3 to 6 

 inches long; leaves spatulate, 4 to 8 lines long; spikes in age secuud and 

 scorpioid. 4 to 12 lines long; fruiting sepals orbicular or oval, herbaceous but 

 white-margined, 1 to 2 lines long, a little shorter than the oblong capsule; 

 style one-half length of the ovary ; capsule valves minutel.v notched at summit. 



San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains, 6500 to 9300 ft. 



I^ocs.— Bear Valley, Parish 3081 ; head of Willow Creek on trail to Round Valley, Wilder 942. 

 Ref. — Calvptridium parryi Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 285 (1887), type loc. Bear Valley, 

 Parry, Parish. 



4. C. quadripetalum Wats. Annual; stems many, erect or spreading from 

 a decumbent base, 2 to 4 (or 9) inches long; leaves basal and eauline, oblong- 

 spatulate, 1 to 2 inches long including the tapering petiole; spikes dense, 3 

 to 8 lines long, terminating the leafy branches; sepals round-reniform, white- 

 searious and rose-tinged with greenish center, 2 to 4 lines broad, exceeding 

 the 4 petals; capsule oblong-oval, 10 to 20-seeded, little or not at all surpassing 

 the fruiting calyx. 



North Coast Ranges in the region of Clear Lake. June. 



Locs. — Geysers. Sonoma Co.. ace. Greene (Fl. Fr. 182) ; Lake Co., Towle, Simonds; Kelsey, 

 K. Brandegee : Aliens Sprs., Cleveland; Snovp Mt., T. Brandegee. 



Ref. — C.ALY'PTRIDIUM QUADRIPETALUM Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 20; 356 (1885), type loc. 

 Snow's Ranch, headwaters of Eel River in Lake Co., Saltan. 



5. C. umbellatum Greene. Pussy Paws. Annual, biennial or perennial; 

 stems several, erect or ascending, scape-like, 3 to 15 inches high, arising from 

 a dense rosette of leaves; basal leaves spatulate. 1 to 2 (or 4) inches long, 

 the eauline leaves few andsimilar, or mostly reduced, or none; flowers imbricate- 

 crowded in scorpioid spikes; spikes borne in a terminal umbel or whorl, 3 

 to 6 lines long, on peduncles i/o to 2 times as long ; sepals orbicular, emarginate 

 at base and apex, equal, wholl.y scarious or with a mere greenish center, 

 dull white or often pink, in age 2 to 4 lines broad ; petals 4. pink or white, 

 obovate ; stamens 3. each filament enfolded by a half-involute petal, the fourth 

 petal embracing the style; stamens and the long style exserted; ovules 3 to 

 6 (or 10); capsule globose-ovate, 1 or 2-sceded; seed Idack. shining, micro- 

 scopically tesselate. 



Fine gravelly or sandy soil, common in open places in the mountains, on 

 plateaus, slopes, vallej- floors, or washes, 2500 or 4000 to 8000 feet : Sierra 

 Nevada and Coast Ranges. North to British Columbia, east to Nevada and 

 the northern Rock.v Mts. June-Sept. 



Locs. — Santa Cruz. Anderson (only known station in South Coast Ranges) ; South Yollo 

 Bolly, Jepson; Trinity Summit. Jepson 2(140; Sliackelford Canon, w. Siskiyou. Jtpson 2816; 

 Egg Lake, Modoc Co.. M. S. Baker; Plumas Co.. Piatt; Truckee, Sonne; Bear Valley. Nevada 

 Co.. Jepson; upper Stanislaus River. Greene; Yosemite. Torrey in 1865, Jepson 4259; Marble 

 Fork Kaweah River, Jepson 659; Mt. Silliman, Jepson 723; Bubbs Creek, Jepson 837; Horse- 

 .shoe Mdw. near Mt. Whitney, Jepson 931. 



Jepson. Fl. Cal. vol. 1. pp. 433-464. 3 Jan. 1914. 



