272 PORTULACACE^. Claytonia. 



C. megarrhiza, Parry. Root very large (inch or two thick, often a foot long), conical or 

 fusiform : radical leaves spatulate to dilated-cuueate, 2 to 6 inches long including the long 

 wing-petioled base, equalling or surpassing the cyuiosely few-several-tlowered scapes ; these 

 bearing mostly two or rarely more alternate spatulate to linear leaves tapering behjw as if 

 petioled, or occasionally opposite, or reduced to scarious bracts. — Parry in Wats. Bibl. Index, 

 118. C. arctica, vsiT. megarrhiza. Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, xxxiii. 406, & Proc. Acad. 

 Philad. 1863, .59 ; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 43. — Alpine region of the Rocky Mountains from 

 S. Colorado (where first coll. by Parry) to Brit. America and on the mountains of Oregon, 

 &c., where it approaches the next. 



C. arctica, M. F. Adams. Radical leaves sjjatulate-obovate, about half the length of the 

 scapes or flowering stems ; cauline ovate or broadly oblong, closely sessile by broad base (half 

 inch to inch long), obtuse : cyme naked, short-racemiform, rather loosely several-flowered. — 

 Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc. v. 94 (1817); DC. Prodr. iii. 361; Cham. Linntea, vi. 559; Gray, 

 Am. Jour. Sci. 1. c. 407. C. Joanniana, Roem. & Schult. Syst. v. 434 (1819). C. Sibirica, 

 Pall, in herb. Willd., not L. C. acutifolia, Ledeb. Fl. Alt. i. 253, & Ic. t. 272, not Pall. C. 

 Joanneana & C. arctica, Feuzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 148. "? C. sarmentosa. Seem. Bot. Herald, 

 t. 5. — Alaskan Islands, Unalaska, Harrington, Kyska, M. Baker. (Adj. Asia to Altai.) 



C. tuberosa, Pall. Radical leaves lanceolate-obovate and acute to linear-lanceolate, shorter 

 than the flowering stems ; cauline lanceolate, acute, broad at sessile base : inflorescence 

 and flowers nearly of the preceding. — Pallas ace. to Willd. in Rcem. & Schult. Syst. v. 436, 

 narrow-leaved form ; Gray, 1. c. C. acutifolia, Pall. 1. c. ; Cham. Linnaea, vi. 560 ; Fenzl 

 in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 147, larger and broader-leaved form. C. Eschscholtzii, Cham. 1. c. 

 561, the most narrow-leaved form. — Arctic Alaska, Muir, but specimen wants root and 

 radical leaves. Also coll. by Rothrock at Plover Bay and by Wright on Arakamtchetchene 

 Island on the Asiatic side. (E. Siberia.) 



* * * Subterranean stems (whether cormatose or caudicose) unknown : cauline leaves sub- 

 opposite, narrow : pedicels elongated, the lowest subtended by a short relatively broad ovate- 

 lanceolate bract : sepals_unequal, narrow and attenuate. 



C* Bodini, Holzinger. Slender stems 4 to 6 inches high, mostly 2-leaved below the middle ; 

 leaves narrowly linear, unequal, about 2 to 3 inches in lengtli, a iine or less in breadth •. lower 

 pedicels 1^ to 2 inches long : calyx spathaceous; the lanceolate attenuate sepals 4 to 5 lines 

 in lengtli, about equalling the ovate-oblong obtusish petals. — Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. i. 

 286. — Sandy soil, Hempstead, Texas, J. K. Bodin, 1890; fl. March. A .species well marked 

 by habit and characters but as yet poorly known and of uncertain affinities. 



7. MONTIA, Micheli. {Jos. Monti, professor of botany at Bologna.) — 

 Nov. Gen. t. 13; L. Gen. no. 58; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 159, excl. syn. 

 Leptriiia, Raf., which is wliolly obscure; Greene, Fl. Francis. 180; Howell, 

 Erythea, i. 36. Montia and Claytonia § Limnia (as well as the rhizomatose 

 species of Eudaytonia) Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 280, 284. [Revised and 

 extended by B. L. Robinson.] 



§ 1. Rhizomatose; the flowering stems, bearing a pair of broad sessile leaves 

 below the racemiform mostly bractless inflorescence, and the long-petioled radical 

 leaves from creeping little-thickened rootstocks : petals obovate and emarginate 

 or obcordate, rose-color or white : pedicels in fruit erect or ascending. • 



M.* sarmentosa, Robinson, n. comb. About a span high from creeping filiform rootstocks 

 or stolons moderately thickened at the crown : radical leaves obovatespatulate, mostly obtuse, 

 half inch or more long, abruptly contracted into a longer petiole with no scarious dilated 

 base ; cauline ovate or orbicular, closely sessile : flowers few : petals broadly obovate, emar- 

 ginate, a third to half inch long, 3 or 4 times the length of the sepals. — Claiitonia sarmen- 

 tosa, C. A. Meyer, Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc. vii. 137, t. 3 (1829) ; Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ro.ss. ii. 

 149 ; Seem. Bot. Herald, 27, but tlie flgures, t. 5, seem rather to be of C. arctica. C. Cha- 

 missoi, DC. Prodr. iii. 361, Jide Fenzl, not Ledeb. in Spreng. C. arctica, vars., Cham. 



