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6. Leaves smaller, flat, narrowly oblanceolate or spatulate, inch or two long, a quarter to a 

 third inch ))road. 



L.* Columbiana, Robinson, n. comb. " Not glaucous," 4 to 12 inches high : stem bearing 

 few or rather numerous short-oblong glandular-toothed bracts : inflorescence loosely panicu- 

 late, several-many-flowered ; flowers considerably smaller than in the preceding species, red : 

 petals about 4 or 5 lines long. — Calandrinia Columbiana, Howell, in Gray, Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xxii. 277. Oreobroma Columbiana, Howell, 1. c. — From the Columbia River, Oregon, Howell, 

 to the Olympic Mts., Henderson, and Vancouver Isl., J. M. Macoun ; first coll. by Lyall ; fl. 

 June, July. 



c. Leaves small, as in tiie last, but "terete." 



L.* Leana, Robinson, n. comb. Much like the last, but said to be glaucous, 4 to 8 inches 

 high : inflorescence a much-branched n\any-flowered panicle ; stems disarticulating at the 

 base shortly after authesis (a trait erroneously attributed to the preceding species by Dr. 

 Gray, 1. c.) : petals about 7, " white streaked with red " : stamens 5 to 8 : ovules 5 to 8 (some 

 abortive and seeds fewer 1) : bracts as in the preceding species fimbriate and with reddish 

 beautifully glandular-tipped teeth. — Calandrinia Leana, Porter, Bot. Gaz. i. 49; Gray, 1. c. 

 277. Oreobroma Leana, Howell, 1. c. 31. — Siskiyou Mts. of California and Oregon, Zee, 

 Howell. 



.* * Stems slender, 1 to several, arising from a small globular corm : single anomalous 

 species, with habit of Claytonia, but with circumscissile dehiscence of the capsule. 



L.* triph^Ua, Robinson, n. comb. Corm barely quarter inch thick : plant 1 to 4 inches 

 high : radical leaves unknown ; cauline a pair or sometimes sc whorl of three, narrowly 

 linear, sessile (half inch to 2 inches long) : paniculate cyme 2-20-flowered ; pedicels slender 

 and erect in fruit : petals oblong, 3 to 10, 2 lines long: capsule oblong-conical. — Claijtonia 

 triphi/lla, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. x. 345 ; Gray, 1. c. xxii. 278. Oreobroma triphylla, Howell, 

 1. c. 33. — Subalpine, Sierra Nevada, California, from above the Yosemite northward to 

 Washington, first coll. by the late Prof. Holton, next by Watson, in the triphyllous state; 

 structure of the capsule noticed by Henderson. 



5. CALANDRINIA, HBK. (/. L. Calandrini, a Genevan botanist of the 

 18th century.) — Pacific-American and Andean (with some outlying Australian) 

 low herbs, mostly alternate-leaved, and with ephemeral red or rose-colored 

 flowers. — Nov. Gen. & Spec. vi. 77, t. 526, as to C. caulescens, the first de'scr. 

 spec. ; Howell, Erythea, i. 33. Calandrinia § Eucalandrinia, Gray, 1. c. 277. — 

 The genus is here limited as by Mr. Howell to those species having the capsules 

 dehiscent from the apex. Ours are all annuals. [Revised and restricted by 



B. L. Robinson.] 



* Herbage green : capsule oblong-obovate, acute ; seeds rather numerous, lenticular, punc- 

 ticulate, minutely strophiolate. 



C. caulescens, HBK. Glabrous or slightly pubescent, or leaves and sepals ciliate, some- 

 what succulent : stems ascending, a span to a foot high : leaves spatulate-oblanceolate to 

 linear : flowers racemosely extra-axillary, short-pedicelled : petals 3 to 5, rose-red to whitish, 

 2 to 4 lines long : stamens 3 to 6 or more : fructiferous sepals ovate, short-acuminate or apicu- 

 late, enveloping the ovate capsule and of about its length ; the midrib slightly prominent. 

 — Nov. Gen. & Spec. vi. 78, t. 526; DC. Prodr. iii. 359; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 277. 

 C. micrantha, Schlecht. Hort. Hal. 9, t. 5, small-flowered form. — Low ground, Arizona and 

 S. E. California, Pr/r!r//e,P«m/(, to islands of Lower California, Palmer, and on Columbia 

 River ,1 Suksdorf, Henderson. (Mex. to Bolivia.) Passes to 



Var. Menziesii, Gray, 1. c. Flowers larger and longer-peduncled : petals quarter to 

 half inch long, rose-red or purple: stamens 4 to II.— Talimm {Calandrinia) Menziesii, 

 Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 223, t. 70, small form, in fruit, probably from California. C. Menziesii, 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 1 97 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 74. C. speciosa, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 



1 Also vicinity of Victoria, Brit. Columbia, Macoun (specimen distrib. as C Menziesii). 



