270 PORTULACACEiE. Calandrinia. 



t. 1598. C.elegans, Spach, Hist. Veg. v. 232. C. pulchella, Lilja, Linnaja, xvii. 108. — 

 Low grounds throughout AV. California and northward to Brit. Columbia ; variable. 



C. Bre'Weri, Watson. ^ Stems lax, ascending or trailing, commonly a foot long : leaves 

 spatulate : flowers sparse : pedicels longer, often declined or refracted in fruit : capsule 

 narrower and longer, 5 lines long, becoming nearly twice the length of the calyx. — Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xi. 124 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 74. C. Menziesii, var. macrocarpa, Gray, 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. iii. 102. — Santa Inez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California, 

 Brewer.^ (La GruUa, Lower Calif., Orcutt.) 



* * Glaucous : capsule ovoid, obtuse ; seeds more turgid, dull and grayish, roughish, con- 

 spicuously strophiolate. 



C. maritima, Nutt. Depressed and small : leaves mostly rosulate at the root, obovate or 

 spatulate : flowers in a loose naked cyme : petals red : fructiferous sepals ovate, 2 lines long, 

 a little shorter than the capsule. — Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 197 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. 

 Calif, i. 75. — Coast of S. California, near San Diego, Nuttall, Thurber, and Santa Monica, 

 Parry.^ 



* * * Very succulent annual : capsule ovoid, obtuse ; seeds rather numerous, obovate and 

 lenticular, naked at hilum. 



C. sesuvioides, Gray. Depressed and spreading from a stout tap-root : stems a span or 

 more long, leafy : leaves linear-spatulate, flattish and strongly edged, very obtuse, inch or 

 more long, some of them opposite : flowers in terminal and lateral somewhat umbellate 

 clusters ; pedicels rather longer than the calyx, not jointed : sepals broadly ovate, obtuse, 

 nearly equalling the chartaceous capsule, equalling or exceeding the 5 obovate white petals: 

 stamens 5, sometimes 6 or 8 : style very short ; stigma subcapitate, undivided : seeds shining, 

 minutely puncticulate. — Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 278. Claytonia amhiyua, Wats. ibid. xvii. 

 365.* — Colorado Desert, at Indio and El Rio, on the Californian side of the river, Lemmon, 

 Parish. 



6. CLAYT6NIA, Gronov. Spring Beauty. (Dedicated by Gronovius 

 to John Clayton., of Virginia, from whose collections and observations he edited the 

 Flora Virginica. ) — Low and vei-y glabrous moderately succulent perennials from 

 a corm or thickened caudex, sending up radical leaves and scapes or flowering 

 stems bearing a single pair of opposite leaves (in one species the 1 to 3 cauline 

 leaves commonly alternate). Flowers usually opening for two or three days. Sta- 

 mens always 5. Capsule 3-valved from the top, about 6-seeded ; seeds smooth and 

 shining, mostly with an evident conical or depressed white strophiole at the hilum 

 (as noticed by Humb. & Bonpl. PI. ^quin. i. 91). — Gronov. ace. to L. Gen. 

 no. 849, & Fl. Virg. 25; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 198; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 223, 

 t. 97, & Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 278, in part; Howell, Erythea, i. 35; K. Bran- 

 degee, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ser. 2, iv. 89. — A genus essentially confluent with 

 Montia, but scarcely to be united with it, owing to the diverse habit of the more 

 typical species of the two. The most practicable, although none too definite, di- 

 vision is that suggested by Th. Howell and by K. Brandegee, -whereby Clai/tonia is 



1 It has been suggested (Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ser. 2, iv. 90) that this species is the Chilian 

 C. compressa, Schrad., — a possible identity, which, with the scanty and not verj' authoritatively 

 named material at hand of the Chilian plant, can neither be confirmed nor wholly disproved. The 

 number of stamens in the Californian plant is about 6, in the Chilian said to be 3 or 4. 



2 Also on the Island of Sta. Cruz, Brandtget, and apparently the same on Mt. Taraalpais, 

 Blankinship. 



3 Also on the Island of Sta. Cruz, Brandegee, and Lower Calif., Palmer. 



* Add syn. Calandrinia ambigua, Howell, Erythea, i. 34. It is much to be regretted that Dr. Gray 

 in transferring this species to Calandrinia did not retain the original specific name. 



