WOOTON AND STANDLEY FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 233 



8. Talinum confertiflorum Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 8: 121. 1881. 



Type locality: Pinos Altos Mountains, New Mexico. Type collected by Greene. 

 Range: New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Sandia Mountains; Mogollon Mountains; Hanover Hills; Organ 

 Mountains. 



9. Talinum parviflorum Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 197. 1838. 

 Type locality: "On rocks, Arkansas." 



Range: Minnesota to Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. 



New Mexico: Las Vegas; Pecos; Hop Canyon; Tortugas Mountain; Nara Visa; 

 near Dora. Open lii lis, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 



4. CLAYTON! A L. Spring beauty. 



Succulent perennial herbs with fleshy roots and narrow basal or cauline leaves; 

 flowers white to pink, in naked, loose, terminal, simple or paniculate racemes; sepals 2, 

 persistent; style 3-cleft; capsules 3-valved, with 6 or fewer seeds. 



key to the species. 



Plants with rounded conns; basal leaves 1 or 2, not spatulate 1. C. lanceolata. 



Plants with fleshy taproots; basal leaves numerous, spatulate 2. C.vWjarrhiza. 



1. Claytonia lanceolata Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 175. 1814. 

 Type locality: "On the Rocky Mountains." 



Range: British Columbia and Wyoming to California and northern New Mexico. 

 New Mexico: Pass southeast of Tierra Amarilla; Willow Creek. Moist ground, in 

 the Transition Zone. 



2. Claytonia megarrhiza (A. Gray) Parry; S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. 118. 1878. 

 Claytonia arctica megarrhiza A. Gray, Amer. Journ. Sci. II. 33: 406. 1862. 

 Type locality: Rocky Mountains of Colorado. 



Range: Washington and Alberta to Colorado and northern New Mexico. 

 New Mexico: Top of Truchas Peak; Wheeler Peak. Arctic-Alpine Zone. 



5. CRUNOCALLIS Rydb. 



Slender stoloniferous perennial, the stems rooting at the nodes; leaves oblong or 

 oblanceolate, fleshy; petals white, 3 or 4 times as long as the sepals; stamens 3 to 5; 

 ovary 3-ovuled. 



1. Crunocallis chamissonis (Ledeb.) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 33: 139. 1906. 

 Claytonia chamissonis Ledeb . ; Spreng. Syst. v*eg. 1: 790. 1826. 

 Montic i -Jui in i.Hsonis Greene, Fl. Franc. 180. 1891. 

 Type locality: Unalaska. 



Range: Alaska, British Columbia, and Minnesota to California and New Mexico. 

 New Mexico: Ponchuelo Creek; Chama. Wei ground, in the Transition Zone. 



6. OREOBROMA Unwell. 



Low perennial with fleshy thick mots and numerous narrow basal leaves; stems 

 mostly 1-flowered, bearing a pair of reduced bractlike leaves; sepals '-'. entire, ovate, 



Obtuse; petals largo, pink or reddish; capsule drcumscissile near the hasc. 



1. Oreobroma nevadensis < S Wat Howell, Erythea 1:33. 1 



Calandriniu jirrmlrnsUS. Wats. Proc. amer. A « .«• 1 8:623 ! 



Lewisia nevadensis Robinson in A. Gray, Byn. Fl. I 1 : 2 



Type locality: "Subalpine region of Wahaatch and Bast Humboldt Mountains." 

 Nevada. 



