34 ERYTHEA. 
5. C. ambigua. Claytonia ambigua, Wats. Proc. Am. 
Acad. xviii. 865. Calandrinia sesuvioides, Gray, l. c. xxii. 
278. Depressed and spreading from a stout root: sepals 
broadly ovate: petals obovate, white: seeds shining.— 
Colorado Desert, California. 
6. TALINUM, Adans. Fam. ii. 145. Low glabrous herbs, 
rarely suffrutescent at base. Sepals 2, deciduous. Seeds 
shining, carunculate. Otherwise like Calandrinia, 
* Leaves more or less flattened. 
1. T. parens, Willd. Spee. ii. 863. Leaves flat: flowers 
in an ample panicle.—Texas. 
2. T. tinzarE, HBK. Nov. Gen. vi. 77. Leaves flattish; 
flowers axillary, solitary.—Texas, Arizona, Mexico. 
. ‘T. BReviroLiom, Torr. Sitgr. Rep. 156. Lower leaves 
seale-like, the upper linear, 3 to 5 lines long: flowers near 
the summit, few, axillary on very short pedicels.— New 
Mexico. 
* * Leaves terete: flowers in naked-peduncled cymes. 
4. T. HUMILE, Greene, Bot. Gaz. vi. 183. Peduncle 
shorter than the leaves, 5 to 20-flowered: petals yellow.— 
Pinos Altos Mountains, New Mexico. 
T. SPINESCENS, Torr. Bot. Wilkes, xvii. 250. Caudex 
short, succulent, beset with small subulate spines: leayes 
4 inch long: peduncles slender, surpassing the leaves: petals 
rose-red: stamens 20 to 30.—Wenatchee Mts., Washington. 
GF TERETIFOLUM, Pursh, Fl. 365. Caudex tuberiform: 
leaves linear: peduncle 3 to 6 inches long: petals purple: 
stamens 15 to 20.—Penn., Wis. and southward. 
7. T. caLycrnum, Engelm. Wisliz. Rep. 4. Peduncles 
branching: leaves elongated: petals pink, twice the length 
of the sepals: stamens 30 or more.—Texas, N. Mex., Ariz. 
. T. PARVIFLoRUM, Nutt. oe ke ORLY 307: Leaves 
linear: flowers small, pale: stamens 5.—Texas, 
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