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8. 0. pygmea. Talinum pygmeum, Gray. Sillim. Journ. 
xxxiii, 407. Scapes scarious-bracted, 1 to 3 inches high: 
flowers red.—Rocky Mts. to the Sierra Nevada and Cascades. 
9. ©. Nevadensis. Calandrinia Nevadensis, Gray, 1. c. 
Larger, 1 to 5 inches high, with narrow leaves and foliaceous 
bracts: flowers white.—Nevada and California to Washington. 
* * * * Root globose; radical leaves few or 0: scapes 
leafy-bracted. 
10. 0. triphylla. Claytonia triphylla, Wats. Proc. Am. 
Acad., x. 845. Scapes 1 to three inches high, bearing leaf- 
like bracts in the middle, and an umbel of small red or white 
ephemeral flowers. 
Group III. Herbs; sepals 2, green-herbaceous: capsule 3-valved, 
3- to several-seeded. 
5. CALANDRINIA, HBK. Nov. Gen. vi. 77, in part, 
Succulent herbs, with alternate leaves, and ephemeral flowers 
in bracted racemes. Sepals 2, persistent. Petals 3 to 7. 
Stamens 8 to 10, seldom of the same number as the petals. 
Ovary free, many-ovuled. Seeds black, minutely tuberculate. 
Our species annual. 
GC. cauLEscens, HBK.1.¢. Glabrous or slightly pubes- 
cent, branching from the base; decumbent stems 3 to 10 
inches long; peduncle erect or ascending: sepals ovate, 
acute: petals broadly obovate, 3 to 5 lines long: seed shining. 
—Near the coast from British Columbia to South America. 
9. ©. Menziestt, Hook. Fl. i. 223. t. 70. Larger and 
coarser than the last: pedicels longer: petals 4 to 6 lines 
long.—California. 
8. CQ. mioranrua, Schl. Linnea, xiii. Lit. Ber. 97. Stems 
2 to 4 inches long: petals only a line——On the Columbia 
River. Perhaps these are only forms of one variable species. 
4. ©. Brewert, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 124. Stems 
prostrate: sepals deltoid-ovate; pedicels reflexed in age; 
seeds dull.—California. 
