472 



PORTULACACEAE 



size showy and most delicately beautiful : petals pink, cuneate-obovate, retiise, 

 3 to 31 2 lines long, about 3 times as long as the sepals. 



Open sununits and northward slopes or in moist thickets. Central Coast 



Fig. 9-i. MONTI.\ GYPSOPHILOIDES Howell, X 1. 



Ranges from the ]\It. Hamilton Range north to Sonoma Co. ilar. to early 

 May. 



Locs.— Mt. Hamilton, Jcpson 4223; Mt. Dav, Santa Clara Co., E. J. Smith; Mt. Diablo, 

 C. F. Baler 2817; Briones Hills, Chandler .588; Berkeley Hills, Tracy 13.55; Mt. Tamalpais, 

 Jcpson 3111; Ft. Ross. Heller ; Happy Valley, Sonoma Co., M. S. Baker 721; St. Helena and 

 C'alistoga, Jepson; Heaklsburg, Alice King. 



Refs.— MONTIA GYPSOPHILOIDES Howell", Erythea, 1: 38 (1893); Jepson, Fl, W. Mid. Cal. 

 186 (1901). Claytonia giipsophiloides F. & M. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 2: 33 (1835),Sert.Petrop. 

 t. 35, type loc. Ft. Ross, Sonoma Co. (reprint, Erythea, 2: 139). 



9. M. spathulata Ilowell. Caespitose, 1 to 6 inches high, the herbage glau- 

 cous and very fleshy; leaves narrowly or elongated linear or lanceolate, nearly 

 as long as the flowering stems; cauliue leaves linear or lanceolate, nearly dis- 



