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PORTULACACEAE 



Wet or swampy meadows or moist stream borders: Sierra Nevada, 4000 to 

 9000 feet, and North Coast Ranges. North to Alaska. 



Locs. Sierra Nevada: G<reenhorn Range, Hall $ Babcock 5051; Golden Trout Creek, 

 Jepson 4932; Cottonwood Creek, Inyo Co., Jepson 5075; Pine Ridge, Fresno Co., Hall 4" 

 Chandler 106; Tuolumne Mdws., Jepson 3242; Bloody Canon, Mono Co., Jepson 4440 (petals 

 5 or 6, the stamens as many) ; Spur, Alpine Co., Hansen; Blue Canon, Harriet Walker 1359; 

 Truckee, Sonne; Prattville, Brandegee; Ft. Bidwell, Manning 115. Coast Ranges: Snow Mt., 

 Brandegee; Mt. Pinos, Hall 6650. Southern California: Tamarack Valley, Mt. San Jacinto, 

 Hall 2362 ; Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., Parish. 



Refs. MONTIA CHAMISSOI Dur. & Jac. 

 Index Kew. Sup. 1: 282 (1901). Clay- 

 tonia chamissoi Ledeb. in Spreng. Sys. 

 Veg. .1: 790 (1825), type loc. Aleutian 

 Islands; Cov. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 

 72 (1893); Holzinger, PI. World, 4: 41 

 (1901). C. chamissonis Esch. Linnaea 6: 

 562 (1831). Montia chamissonis Greene, 

 Fl. Fr. 180 (1891) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. 

 Cal. ed. 2, 161 (1911). Crunocallis chamis- 

 sonis Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club, 33: 139 

 (1906). 



7. M. perfoliata Howell. MINER'S 

 LETTUCE. (Fig. 93.) Annual; stems 

 several, erect or diffuse, 4 to 10 

 (or 16) inches high; basal leaves 

 rhomboidal or deltoid to ovate or 

 lanceolate or the earliest narrowly 

 linear, y 2 to 2 inches long, long- 

 petioled; cauline pair completely 

 united into a round and entire or 

 angulately 2-lobed disk i/o to 2 (or 

 4) inches broad; racemes more or 

 less interrupted (the flowers in 2s 

 or 3s or fascicles), variable in 

 length, sessile or on peduncles % 

 to 11/2 inches long, or the flowers 

 glomerate on the disk in a sessile 

 cluster; pedicels 1 to 5 lines long, 

 rarely % inch ; sepals roundish, 1 

 to 2 lines long; petals white, l 1 ^ 

 to 1% times length of sepals. 



Mostly in the shade of oaks and 

 other trees throughout California, 

 also common in orchards and vine- 

 yards: Coast Ranges (mostly val- 

 leys and lower foothills) ; Great 

 Valley; Sierra Nevada (mostly 

 caiion valleys and foothills, but 

 ranging to middle altitudes) ; 

 Southern California ("common in 

 the valleys and ascending the 

 mountains to 7000 feet, becoming 

 exiguous at the upper limit. "- 

 Fig. 93. MONTIA PERFOLIATA Howell. a, a large Parish). Extends north to British 

 feUTYhT^l '^gJSV^ Columbia and south into Lower Cal- 

 according to situation, often becoming very iforma. Also called Indian Lettuce 

 small or depauperate. and Squaw Cabbage. 



