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PORTULACACEAE 



to 2 feet long; pedicels long (5 to 11 lines long) or sometimes short (3 to 5 

 lines long) ; petals orbicular-obovate, retuse at apex, crimson or rose-red, 3 to 



5 lines long; stamens 7 to 14, commonly 

 10 to 12, rarely fewer than 7. Orchards 

 and vineyards, often very abundant in 

 wet years; also in fields and on hilltops. 

 Mar. -Apr. Flowers opening of after- 

 noons. Called "Kisses" in Solano Co. 



Locs. Egg Lake, Modoc Co., Baker; Crane 

 Creek, Tehama Co., Jepson; Elk Grove, Drew; 

 Vacaville, Jepson 520; Napa Valley, Jepson; 

 Collinsville, Jepson; Amador Co., Hansen 907; 

 Clements, San Joaquin Co., Jepson 1823 ; French 

 Camp, Sanford; Berkeley, Jepson; Stanford Uni- 

 versity, C. F. Baker 277; Grapevine Spr., Tulare 

 Co., Woolsey; San Bernardino, Parish. 



Refs. CALANDRINIA CAULESCENS H. B. K. 

 Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 78, t. 526 (1823), type Iocs. 

 Bolivia and Mexico. Var. MENZIESII Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. 22: 277 (1887). C. menziesii T. & 

 G. Fl. 1: 197 (1838). Talinum menziesii Hook. 

 Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 223, t. 70 (1834), type from 

 ' ' N. W. America ' ' south of the Coulmbia River, 

 probably California, Menzies. 



2. C. breweri Wats. Stems lax, trail- 

 ing or sometimes ascending, 1 to 2 feet 

 long; leaves spatulate or oblong-spatu- 

 late, 1 to 21/2 inches long ; flowers sparse ; 

 pedicels longer than in no. 1, typically 

 defiexed in fruit; capsule narrower and 

 longer (5 to 6 lines long) than in no. 1, 

 at length twice or nearly twice as long 

 as the calyx ; sepals with a grooved edge, 

 the lower margin of the groove scarious. 

 Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada; Lower California. The known localities 

 few and scattered. June. 



Locs. Coulterville, Congdon; Mt. Tamalpais, Jepson; Painted Cave Ranch, Santa Barbara, 

 Eastwood; San Bernardino Mts., Parish 6221; Santa Cruz Isl. (Zoe, 1: 133). 



Refs. CALANDRINIA BREWERI Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 11: 124 (1876), type loc. Santa Inez 

 Mts., Brewer; Brandegee, Zoe, 2: 121 (1891). C. menziesii var. macrocarpa Gray, Proc. Cal. 

 Acad. 3: 102 (1864), type the same as C. breweri. 



3. C. maritima Nutt. Stems several from the base, spreading or ascending, 

 3 to 8 inches long ; herbage very glaucous ; leaves mostly basal or on lower part 

 of stem, spatulate-obovate, narrowed to a petiole-like base, 1 to 2 l / 2 inches long; 

 flowers long-pediceled in a terminal raceme or loose panicle, !/4 to 1*4 inches 

 long; flowers red; sepals round-ovate, dark-veined, mucronate or abruptly 

 short-acute, slightly surpassed by the ovate capsule. 



Southern California coast. Lower California. 



Locs. Santa Monica (Gray, Syn. Fl. I 1 : 270); San Diego, Abrams 3461; Santa Cruz Isl. 

 (Zoe, 1: 133). 



Ref. CALANDRINIA MARITIMA Nutt.; /T. & G. Fl. 1: 197 (1838), type loc. San Diego, 

 Nuttall. 



4. C. ambigua Ho well. Stems several from the base, erect or a little spread- 

 ing, 2 to 7 inches high ; stems and leaves very succulent ; leaves linear-spatulate, 

 1 to 1% inches long; flowers pediceled in rather compact umbellate panicles; 

 pedicels 1 to 3 lines long; sepals ovate with shortly acute spreading tips and 



Fig. 92. CALANDRINIA CAULESCENS var. 

 MENZIESII Gray; portion of flower- 

 ing branch, x 1. 



