Montia. PORTULACACE^E. 273 



LiuuEea, 1. c. 559. C. Vlrginica, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 123, in part. — St. Lawrence, St. 

 Paul and St. George Islands, Alaska, first coll. bj C/iamisso & Eschscholtz, and Kotzebue 

 Sound. (Adj. Asia.) 



M.* asarifolia, Howell, a foot or less high from a slender or slightly fleshy creeping 

 rootstock : leaves succulent ; radical from orbicular-subcordate or slightly reuiform to 

 rhombic-ovate ; the larger 2 inches (or even 4 inches, ace. to Bongard) in diameter, long- 

 petioled ; cauliue pair of similar form, closely sessile : inflorescence slender-pedunculate, 

 loosely several-flowered, with occasionally a small bract : petals a quarter or third inch long : 

 fructiferous sepals rather shorter than the capsule. — Erythea, i. 39 ; Clai/tonia asarifolia, 

 Bong. Veg. Sitch. 137 ; Feuzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 150. C. Nevadensis, Brew. & Wats. 

 Bot. Calif, i. 77, a dwarfed form. C. cordifolia, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 365. — Wet or 

 springy ground, Rocky Mountains of Brit. America, Macoun ; Montana and Idaho, Lyall, 

 Nevius, Watson ; and Cascade Mountains, Henderson, Suksdorf, to Sitka, Mertens. Also in 

 a reduced form in Sierra Nevada, California, Lemmon, &c. (Bering Island.) 



§ 2. LiMNiA. Fibrous-rooted annuals or perennials, destitute of rootstocks, 

 corms, «fec., but some stoloniferous or rooting from tbe nodes or bulbilliferous : 

 one sepal commonly a little larger tban the other, and the two petals alternating 

 with these commonly larger than the others. Flowers in most species opening 

 more than one day. — Limnia, 1j. Kci. Holm. 1746, 130, t. 5; Haworth, Syn. 

 PL Succ. 11. 



* Cauline leaves a single sessile pair below the racemiform inflorescence ; radical numerous 

 and petioled : petals emarginate or obcordate : stamens always 5. 



-K- Bracts accompanying most of the pedicels of the simply and loosely racemiform inflo- 

 rescence : leaves thinnish. Connects strictly with the preceding species. 



M.* Sibirica, Howell, 1. c. Annual or more enduring and with thickened crown produ- 

 cing offsets upon stout stolons, but no rootstock : flowering stems a span or two or a foot or 

 two high : radical leaves rhombic-ovate (and varying from broadly ovate or obovate to ovate- 

 lanceolate), contracted into long margined petioles, these fleshy-thickened at base ; cauline 

 broadly ovate and closely sessile but distinct, sometimes obovate and with contracted base, 

 inch or two long : bracts oblong to linear : pedicels usually solitary and alternate, slender, 

 in fruit often inch or more long and widely spreading or refracted : sepals very broadly 

 ovate, mostly accrescent : petals rose-color or white, quarter inch long : seeds at maturity 

 distinctly granulate.— Clai/tonia Sibirica, L. Hort. Ups. 52, & Spec. i. 204 {Limnia, Act. 

 Holm. I c.) ; Gmel. Fl. Sibir. iv. 89 ; Sims, Bot Mag. t. 2243 ; Sweet, Brit. Fl. Card. t. 16; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 676, excl, .syn.; Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 149; Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. 

 ser. 2, xxxiii. 407 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 76. C. alsinoides, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1309, 

 wliite-fl. form; Pursh, Fl. i. 175.- Cham. Linnaa.vi. 559 ; Bong. 1. c. 136 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. 

 i. 199. C. Unaiasrhkensis, Fiseh. Hort. Gorenk. ed. 2, 62, & in Roem. & Schult. Syst. v. 434; 

 DC. Prodr. iii. 361. Limnia Sihirira & L. alsinoides, Haworth, Syn. PI. Succ. 11. — Moist 

 banks, &c., Alaskan Islands and Brit. Columbia (first coll. by Steller & Pallas t.) and south 

 to San Francisco Bay and Plumas Co. in Sierra Nevada, California. (Bering Island, and 

 prohalily on the adjacent mainland ; but not otherwise known to be Siberian.) 



Var.* heteroph^Ua, Rorinson, n comb. A form with leaves, especially radical 

 ones, varying from ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or even linear! — Clai/tonia Sibirica, 

 var. /leterophi/lla, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 281. C. Unalasclikensis, var. Jiekrojihylla, 

 Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 199, & C. alsinoides, var. heterophi/Ua, Torr. & Gray, 1. c — On 

 the Columbia River and elsewhere, in moist and shady ground. 



Var.* bulbifera, Robinson, n. comb. Thickened bases of radical leaves more fleshy 

 and persistent on tbe crown as bulblet- scales. — Clai/tonia bulbifera, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xii. 54 ; Wats. Bot. Calif, ii. 435. C. Sibirica, var. bnlbillifera. Gray, 1. c. xxii. 281 . Montia 

 ■ bulbifera, Howell, 1. c. — N. California, on the Scott Mountains, Greene, and Wolf Creek, in 

 adjacent Oregon, Llowell. Other less marked specimens pass to the ordinary form of the 

 species. 



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