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PORTULACACEAE 



size showy and most delicately beautiful ; petals pink, cuneate-obovate, retuse, 

 3 to 3i/2 lines long, about 3 times as long as the sepals. 



Open summits and northward slopes or in moist thickets. Central Coast 



Fig. 94. MONTIA GYPSOPHILOIDES Howell, X 1. 



Ranges from the Mt. Hamilton Range north to Sonoma Co. Mar. to early 

 May. 



Locs. Mt. Hamilton, Jepson 4223; Mt. Day, Santa Clara Co., B. J. Smith; Mt. Diablo, 

 C. F. Baker 2817; Briones Hills, Chandler 588; Berkeley Hills, Tracy 1355; Mt. Tamalpais, 

 Jepson 3111; Ft. Ross, Heller; Happy Valley, Sonoma Co., M. S. Baker 721; St. Helena and 

 Calistoga, Jepson; Healdsburg, Alice King. 



Eefs. MONTIA GYPSOPHILOIDES Howell, Erythea, 1: 38 (1893); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 

 186 (1901). Claytonia gypsophiloides F. & M. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 2 : 33 (1835), Sert. Petrop. 

 t. 35, type loc. Ft. Ross, Sonoma Co. (reprint, Erythea, 2: 139). 



9. M. spathulata Howell. Caespitose, 1 to 6 inches high, the herbage glau- 

 cous and very fleshy ; leaves narrowly or elongated linear or lanceolate, nearly 

 as long as the flowering stems; cauline leaves linear or lanceolate, nearly dis- 



